Ever been arrested or had dealings with the police away from home?

Conor84 · 14-01-2013 08:53PM #1

Just wondering.

I was over in England just after Christmas and was on a night out and ended up getting into a row with a security guy at a club and police were called. Reacted badly and argued with them and then didn't leave the place like they said and ended up getting cuffed and put in the cage in the back of the van. Was in the cells for the night - they had a massive cellblock there, not like the Garda stations here - and sobered up a bit. I was worried about what was going to happen. They did the rounds in the morning with tea and toast - don't think they were police but detention officers or something like that.

I got more worried when I had to go and get photographed, finger printed and they even took a DNA swab from my mouth but they said that was standard for everybody who was arrested. I got taken to speak with a Sergeant then and thought I was going to have to go to court or something but he said I was being released without charge.

Don't know if it was because I was a tourist over there but was delighted to hear that and got my stuff back and headed off. I was treated well despite being in the wrong on the night. Got into big trouble with my gf though!!

I have no mad stories or anything - but was thinking it must be bad if something happened and you ended up being arrested somewhere abroad - especially if is a country where the police are tougher or if you can't speak the language.

Paddy Cow · 14-01-2013 08:56PM

I got given a warning from the undercover cycle police in Australia for not wearing a helmet :pac:

SmilingLurker · 14-01-2013 08:57PM

Yes, was stopped by a squad car for walking in the USA (less than twenty minutes down to the beach) They could not understand why anyone would walk anywhere - especially carrying swimming gear.

Paddy Cow · 14-01-2013 08:58PM

Conor84 wrote: »

I have no mad stories or anything - but was thinking it must be bad if something happened and you ended up being arrested somewhere abroad - especially if is a country where the police are tougher or if you can't speak the language.

The only thing I know about being arrested somewhere you don't speak the language is don't, under any circumstances sign anything, no matter how much they try to force you.

Dave0301 · 14-01-2013 08:58PM

Got searched for drugs outside a nightclub in Spain before by the police. I wouldn't mind but all I was trying to do was find my phone to send a text!

Must be the big drug dealing head on me :pac:

biko · 14-01-2013 09:00PM

Ran a few times from them in my youth when they tried to nab us for bushing.
Got stopped in Oz for carrying an open beer while walking on the footpath and had to pour it out.
That's about it really (all that I will tell you anyway).

14-01-2013 09:05PM

Spent the night in a cell in Paris for being drunk in public at 4 am. The police gave me a blanket, pillow and water for the night. Was brought in for my own safety. Not unusual in France apparently

ChunkyLover_53 · 14-01-2013 09:06PM

SmilingLurker wrote: »

Yes, was stopped by a squad car for walking in the USA (less than twenty minutes down to the beach) They could not understand why anyone would walk anywhere - especially carrying swimming gear.

Same thing happened to me in North Carolina, except without the swimgear, think I had groceries at the time, the cop couldn't believe we would walk to the supermarket in the midday heat, he thought we'd broke down nearby, only when he'd gone we realised there were feck all paths.

fasttalkerchat · 14-01-2013 09:10PM

Police arrived to our houseparty in France. There was about 6 squad cars and we thought we were getting lifted so tried to do a runner. Turned out they came to warn us there was a hells angels gang in the area.

saiint · 14-01-2013 09:10PM

i knew i seen you on road wars OP

Rasheed · 14-01-2013 09:13PM

Shifted a police officer in Italy. He hadn't a word of English, best holiday romance I ever had.

Intensive Care Bear · 14-01-2013 09:14PM

SmilingLurker wrote: »

Yes, was stopped by a squad car for walking in the USA (less than twenty minutes down to the beach) They could not understand why anyone would walk anywhere - especially carrying swimming gear.

Had it got something to do with your username?

newmug · 14-01-2013 09:28PM

A mate of mine went bezerk on hols in the Canaries. He arrived back at the hotel the next day with a bandage on his head. He said he fell backwards through a glass bus shelter, was brought to the hospital by the cops, but seeing as he didnt know whether they'd be looking for money off him for his hospital treatment, he escaped from the hospital the next morning and ran cross-country back to the hotel. I'd believe him too.

wexie · 14-01-2013 09:32PM

SmilingLurker wrote: »

Yes, was stopped by a squad car for walking in the USA (less than twenty minutes down to the beach) They could not understand why anyone would walk anywhere - especially carrying swimming gear.

Had the same thing happen in Austin Texas.....

Out for a morning jog, got stopped to asked what I was doing. He looked at me like I was nuts to be out for a jog.

Then offered me a lift back to hotel....

2rkehij30qtza5 · 14-01-2013 09:32PM

Lived in America for a while and had 3 brushes with the law (didn't get arrested). First was for drinking beer on the street (I was sitting on the steps outside my house on a sunny afternoon drinking a bottle of beer...harmless) and other two were for traffic offences...first one, I did a u-turn where I shouldn't have and second was for speeding. Just got a ticket for the speeding. U-turn cop let me off and asked for my number at the same time, hah!

Where To · 14-01-2013 09:34PM

Was pulled in Hungary and Romania a few times for having a dirty numberplate.

One thing I noticed is that the police in both those countries rarely wash their hands, always filthy for some reason.;)

Pottler · 14-01-2013 09:47PM

Where To wrote: »

Was pulled in Hungary and Romania a few times for having a dirty numberplate.

One thing I noticed is that the police in both those countries rarely wash their hands, always filthy for some reason.;)

69 OY 8008135 ??

newmug · 14-01-2013 09:49PM

Where To wrote: »

Was pulled in Hungary and Romania a few times for having a dirty numberplate.

One thing I noticed is that the police in both those countries rarely wash their hands, always filthy for some reason.;)

The amount of Irish reg cars in Romania is unreal. Usually owned by gypsies.

cameramonkey · 14-01-2013 09:54PM

Got slapped around( bloody lips but just superficial) by the Greek tourist police many moons ago, they also relieved me of about 30 pounds. I was pretty drunk when arrested me but I got sober quickly.

FlawedGenius · 14-01-2013 09:55PM

I served 3 years in a Venezuelan prison called Caracas for cocaine smuggling.

Where To · 14-01-2013 09:56PM

newmug wrote: »

The amount of Irish reg cars in Romania is unreal. Usually owned by gypsies.

Wasn't too many when I was there, I was driving a LHD Dutch registered van with an Irish driving licence and a British passport, they had to work for their bribe money with me.:)

Where To · 14-01-2013 09:56PM

FlawedGenius wrote: »

I served 3 years in a Venezuelan prison called Caracas for cocaine smuggling.

No you didn't.

El Guapo! · 14-01-2013 10:01PM

Where To wrote: »

No you didn't.

He did.
I was his cell mate and I bummed him for 3 solid years.
He took it like a man though.

StinkyMunkey · 14-01-2013 10:12PM

Went out on a date with an English girl in Cyprus many years ago, got plastered, took my moped out for a spin. I stopped in a car park for a cig - as you do. Couple of undercover cops pull up along side me and searched me, thought I was smoking a joint. When they realised I wasn't up to badness or had no drugs, they told me to be very careful driving cause I was pissed 0.o

gallag · 14-01-2013 10:27PM

One time I got broke out of prison in Russia and had to go on the hunt for some stolen nuclear launch codes from rouge terriosts, the trail led me to the kremlin:-0 anyway I broke in successfully but it turnes out it was a trap and I got implicated in a series of destructive explosions, after evading capture I found out that my government was invoking ghost protocol and it was up to me to find the people responsible, clear my name and find the launch codes. Anyway, with my get her bucked attatude and a bit of the old elbow greece I saved the world. Mint.

ITS_A_BADGER · 14-01-2013 10:29PM

Arrested for drunk and disorderly,danger to myself and people around me and criminal damage. B@stards blamed me for pulling up a flower bed of plants when it wasnt me it was the fooker we met in the street and had just started following us around, but i was locked so the guard chose me to pick on

luckily the criminal damage charges was dropped and got off with the rest with a warning

V_Moth · 14-01-2013 11:01PM

A couple of brushes with "the man" while on holidays, nothing too serious:

-After dinner in a small town in Entre Rios in northern Argentina, got stopped by local cops who were looking for a bribe. My friend tried to argue with them, but I convinced him that it was probably better to pay the minuscule bride than stay the night in the prison (or worse).

-While birding in a remote forest in eastern Poland, managed to get the car stuck in a sandy area. One of our group had to walk to the nearest house (20km away) to get a tractor to pull the car out, while the rest of us had to spend the night in the car. Got woken up at 4am by two Polish Border Guards pointing their SMG's at us. It seems we ended up only a short distance away from the Belarussian border.

-Learn't not to confuse "Ralentir" and "Halte" at Moroccan police checkpoints. €150 worse off after that.

Menas · 14-01-2013 11:23PM

I have been hit with a Police water canon in Mexico (WTO riots) and was walloped by a police man in Tianamen square (Crowd control on chinese new years).
I was held at an airport in the UK and questioned on terrorist suspicions (Manchester airport just after the bombs went off there).

After a night at a party in london years ago I was passing thru some train station and every drug dog in the place came and sat beside me.

At Frankfurt airport they decided that I did not need to go thru the normal passport control and took me to the internal police station where I was questioned before letting me thru.

I have no previous convictions - just unlucky!

All this before I turned 30. No trouble in the last 10 years though!

fasttalkerchat · 14-01-2013 11:55PM

newmug wrote: »

A mate of mine went bezerk on hols in the Canaries. He arrived back at the hotel the next day with a bandage on his head. He said he fell backwards through a glass bus shelter, was brought to the hospital by the cops, but seeing as he didnt know whether they'd be looking for money off him for his hospital treatment, he escaped from the hospital the next morning and ran cross-country back to the hotel. I'd believe him too.

I had a friend who did the same. He had minor surgery after a motorbike accident in Cyprus. No licence or insurance or money to pay the hospital or for the rented bike. He did a runner from the hospital and was due to go home the next day and had to hide an open wound to get on the plane.
Ended up with embassies involved etc. and he's not welcome back!

mahonykid · 15-01-2013 12:00AM

I spent 4 years in the SHU in Pelicon bay prison california for smuggling babies across the border to mexico.
I eventually escaped with the help of my heavily tatto'ed friend micheal. Turns out he had the prison blueprints tatoo'ed onto his body, go figure....

orestes · 15-01-2013 12:04AM

Got done by the police in Prague twice. Once for not validating my tram ticket (having the ticket isn't enough, you have to put it in a machine and get it stamped or it doesn't count) - fine: 800 CZK (32 euro). The other one was for taking a piss in public while drunk (turns out the alley I went down was right beside a police station) - fine: 100 CZK (4 euro).

Yup, 32 euro for no validated tram ticket, 4 euro for pissing against the wall of a police station. I love eastern europe

Ever been arrested or had dealings with the police away from home?

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