Thread: Jail

Ever been in jail?

Me no. My father and brother, yes. Nothing too serious.

Worked in them for 26 1/2 years if that counts.

No. Never. Don't plan on going either.

Spent a lot of time in them over the years but only as a job thing. Even got to sit in the chair in the Gas Chamber at the penitentiary of new Mexico

that's a non-expected question... one i wouldn't normally answer.. however.. yes. not something to brag about.. i spent 5 months in a county jail for driving my girlfriends car.. long story short.

i was 19 when my girlfriend's father found out we had not planned things out like we should have.. he was a deputy sheriff and did his best to make sure i paid... i made the mistake of driving a car that was registered to him... 180 days was the best plea bargain i could get.

we had a miscarriage 2 weeks into my sentence.

i know it sounds strange.. but i had more laughs in that place than i ever have outside of it.

i can't believe it's been 9 years.. i had pretty much become a forgotten memory till just right now.

My father was arrested for cattle rustling once...Among all of his misdeeds the only thing he ever spent in jail over was cattle rustling.

in my younger days i was in 3 diffrent times for the weekend only the last time the judge told me if he saw me i there again he would make sure that i would stay for a long time, so i told him he would not see me again. that was 20 years ago. i have been a good boy up till now.

Actually I do recall my father telling me that he spent some time in a U S Marine red line brig. The way he described it I would rather spend life in a civilian prison rather than a week in a red line brig

Not jail. Only as a visitor to a maximum security state penitentiary. Even then, I felt like a prisoner.

I have no plans to make it a home--even for the shortest time.

Me no, but my dad did get nicked once when he was younger on a stag do. No charges were pressed, no names were taken and no one was even cautioned, but he did actually spend the night in jail!

Basically what happened was he and my godfather (whose name is Roger Moore, but not THE Roger Moore) were out with a few guys on a stag night and on the way home decided to strip the groom to be and chuck him out the back of the van and then drive off just fast enough that he couldnt quite catch them.

Needless to say the Police stopped them, and unfortunately the first person they asked for a name was my godfather. "Roger Moore" he replied, and the cop said something like "Yeah, and I'm Shaun Connery" and dragged them all off to the tanty.

Apparently when the Police called my mum she said they could keep him for the night..!

Nelson, that must have been pretty intense to sit in the chair in the gas chamber? I remember seeing the gallows at the old jail in Melbourne, out of use for decades at that point, and it was quite eery! Lord knows what it must have been like to sit in the chamber at the time when it was still in active use..!

I recall reading somewhere that the electric chair in Nebraska has a coffee cup stain on one arm from one of the old guards who used to like to sit in it while he had his lunch...!