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Best Arrest Stories
OOT'ers have lived a lot of life, and I think hearing the best stories of times we've been in trouble with the law would be interesting, so here is mine:
Location: Greenwood Park in Des Moines, IA Background: This park is connected to 2 other parks, and is a very large wooded area in the middle of the city. There are many drug dealars who set up shop down the dead ends that lead into the park. Time of day: 9PM, and it is completely dark save for a light outside a maintenence cabin. So, my friends and I were blowing off some steam by destroying an old monitor and a microwave with a hatchet, a baseball bat, and a sledgehammer. We had finished busting the monitor, and were moving the pieces to a barrel-style trash can nearby when the light on the cabin when out and six D.E.A. agents bust out of the woods, guns drawn, screaming "nobody move." Naturally, we stay put, as we don't want to get shot. The 6 of us are put in handcuffs, and searched for drugs while 3 local police cars drive up with their lights on and search the area around us for weapons/drugs. When they find nothing other than our smashing tools, and realize we are in possession of no drugs, they take the handcuffs off and begin to chat with us. The drug task force let us try out their night vision goggles. My guess is they were happy not to have to deal with a gunfight on their intended bust. We were given tickets for being in the park after hours, although the signs had recently been changed the park hours from 6AM-10PM to Dawn to Dusk. Luckily we were not giving littering tickets, and also had not been drinking at this point in the night. The next day we went into a different section of the park, where the signs had not yet been changed, and took photographs. We took them to court, and the D.A. dropped her case instead of continuing with the trial. Sidenote: I live about a quarter mile from where this happened, and heard shots ring out around 3AM. The next day in the paper, there was a story about a meth ring being broken up. Though I didn't actually get an any trouble here, its the best police story I got. What crazy stuff has happened to you guys? |
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