to ask whether you've ever been arrested?

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And if so for what?
And what was your experience like?

don't all speak at once!

No, but have been questioned at the police station. They arrested someone else instead of me.

Having said it is one of my irrational fears. Getting arrested and not being able to prove myself innocent so then landing in prison. I am a law abiding citizen so its highly unlikely, but I can't help worrying that it may happen.

Yes for shoplifting when I was 13. I was marched from the shop to the police station through town. Held in a cell for a few hours whilst they went to my mums work and brought her to station. She told them to leave me in cell for a bit longer so she didn't kill me. Had to go back 6 weeks later to find out if I needed to go to court. I didn't but I got the talking to of my life from a senior cop (think they drafted him in to scare the life out of me). It worked, I never stole another thing in my life and was utterly ashamed of myself

for possession of baking soda

That explains rising crime rates

Yes.... the orange powder mixed with water is enough to keep you on straight 🤮 also took my glasses, belt and string out of the bottom of my jumper. Kicked out at 3am with no way of getting 26 miles home. No charges. Wrong place wrong time

I think I just avoided it for a breach of the peace on one protest. Managed to slip the police officer's grasp and disappeared into the crowd.
Would have been awkward as my other half was a copper...

Nearly got sectioned by the armed police when I had a bad psychotic episode in 2012 that involved having a knife & smashing up my kitchen.
A police officer established that I no longer had the knife on me & came into my lounge & informed me that if I stepped outdoors they would have to section me.
So I stayed on the sofa. While the police officer very kindly chatted for a long time about my problems & called the crisis team who were useless.
I will never forget that lovely police officer. But I wish I'd had the courage to go outside as id have got the help I desperately needed - instead I carried on going to work while psychotic & soon after lost my career.

Op, your attitude towards your old housemate is appalling and so dismissive of the level of fear he must have had.

I get that at the time you were not of sound kind to understand that, but now, years later, surely you realise that?

I’ve had people stab their self in front of me and it is terrifying. Even though they have harmed themselves, it doesn’t mean that they won’t harm you.

Only threatened with arrest for doing a sit in protest in the fur department of John Lewis back in the 1980's when I was about 16 !

No, but a senior police officer waggled his finger at me once.

The people in this thread laying into the Op for her behavior while she was having a mental health crisis are not exactly covering themselves in glory.

If the sort of drama queen who sings the irish national anthem in cells is waving a knife around in my house, ll call whoever to get rid. Had enough of chaotic arses in my life thankyou very much.

I'd call for them constantly to make a cup of tea. They'd come after 20 minutes of me screeching and give me sugar in my tea when I requested none. The food they brought was like tinned dogfood. Then I resorted to singing the Irish national anthem and rebel songs lol. Eventually demanded to see a doctor but none was available. Requested sleeping tablets but they refused that as I had spent the first hour banging my head against the walls in the hopes of knocking myself out and they said they couldn't as I had a head injury.

You sound charming.

I am really shocked by the number if people on here who gave been in trouble with the police.

I got stopped once for not having my lights on. The police officer was very kind and I apologised and we both went on our way.

Everybody in the cells has mental health hissues. I have countless mental health issues but I didnt think they made me special everytime I went in the cells and I just kept my head down to get out asap,

Well I now know not to use your flatmate's sharp knife to cut your arm or he'll claim he fears for his life lol. I'd have bought the stingy cunt a new knife. That's all that was bothering him I'd say. That I used his knife. He was very possessive of his things. It was quite funny in a way.

Wow, I'm warming to you more and more by the minute. Not.

"Yes - I had committed a crime - I had made someone fear for their life *takes out smallest violin."

I've no doubt you were mentally unwell OP, but this kind of attitude, and the hostile way you've replied to posters, just makes people roll their eyes. It's not unreasonable for someone confronted with another person who is mentally unwell to be concerned for their own safety.

The idiot who claimed he was fearing for his life, remains an idiot in my eyes.

I'm going to assume you are not yet fully well. It's the only way I can make sense of what you just said, which is despicably arrogant and dismissive.

People carrying baking soda around are often making crack.

They had arrested me and locked me up in a cold cell for feeling suicidal. I was not in the mood to be 'nice'.

No. They arrested you and locked you in a cell for behaving irrationally and aggressively with a knife and frightening/possibly threatening other people.

I haven’t.
The only person I know who has was my abusive ex who was arrested for ABH against me. He was such a bully and tried to headbutt and fight the policemen who arrested him. I have to say that I did get a bit of satisfaction from learning from the officer in charge of the case that the ex then spent the whole night crying in his cell in custody and asking for his mum. Not quite the hard man he liked to portray himself as.

No, not been arrested. I got a bollocking for smoking a spliff in the street in Manchester when I was 18 and I had the police come round once when I was having MH problems. I threatened to take an overdose, an ambulance was called and I freaked out, legged it upstairs and locked myself in the bathroom. About 6 coppers turned up and threatened to bash down the bathroom door. They went and got one of those door battering things out of the car. A bit stupid really as they could have just opened the door lock from the outside with a penny, or their fingers. Anyway I let them in and 4 of them piled on to me and got me on the floor, one of them bent my arm backwards which really fucking hurt.

I was a bit mouthy I admit, I was highly agitated, but they were pretty heavy handed. I’m not exactly a bruiser.

I calmed down in the end and went to the hospital with the ambulance people. I hadn’t actually take anything thankfully. I had a blood test that took ages to come back, talked to the duty psych and was let go at about 4am. The only good to come of it is I finally got some help from the MH team, for all the use they were. I was subsequently diagnosed with bipolar. Turns out the anti depressants I was prescribed by my GP had sent me into a manic episode.

I don’t much fancy being arrested after that. Some of the coppers were alright but one in particular thought he was Dirty Harry. He was a complete knob and seemed to be running the show.

No, not yet!

Yes. Someone tried to grab my daughter who was 18 months old at the time. I hit her to get her away from my daughter
I was arrested and cautioned for assault. I've known police officers since who have said It should have been NFAd.

The police were nice, had a good chat, said they'd have probably done the same. I think they were just being nice because I was easy to deal with

If the sort of drama queen who sings the irish national anthem in cells

Do you object to her singing the Irish national anthem in particular whilst in custody or national anthems in general?

Depending on where she was living at the time, GSTQ could have started a riot.

I would have thought the rebel songs would be more divisive than any anthem though.

OP, with all due respect, I would be fearing for my own life if someone was drunk, acting erratically trying to self harm was in my house (as well as terrified for their own). Your behaviour was not of the norm, that is your reasonable cause. Just because you were focused on yourself doesn’t mean that situation could have changed in an instant. I hope you’ve got / are getting help for your mental health issues, but please don’t belittle people for being scared for their own safety.