I am not proud to say but I have spent a couple hours in jail. My friends and I were visiting our good friend at Michigan State University. We started the night out at a house party that was kind of lame. After about three beers we decided to go back to his dorm room to hang out. On the way there I'm extremely lost driving around the campus, it gets kind of confusing. I end up turning down a one way street that wasn't labeled very well. Needless to say I get pulled over.
In my car there are two of my friends, Pete and Ajay. Pete is seating shotgun and for some reason the cop lets him go. Pete has been drinking a lot and is clearly underage. This didn't seem to bother the cop as he let him go with beer in hand. I go through all the sobriety tests and pass them with flying colors. When it came to the breathalizer that was another story. I blew under the legal limit but since I was a minor it didn't matter. They put the cuffs on me and set me nicely in the back of the squad car. I should have requested the pink fuzzy cuffs but cops usually don't have a good sense of humor. I remember the whole time someone in their dormroom was blanching the song "bad boys bad boys." I wanted to kill those kids but I probally would have done the same thing.
Another squad car pulls up and they take my buddy Ajay away for an m.i.p. and an open intox. Ajay is Indian so we think there was racial motivation behind this, since they let Pete go with a beer in his hand. Ajay ends up spending about 12 hours in the county jail in a huge holding cell with about 50 other dudes. I on the other hand was taken to the local campus station which has only two personal cells. They take my mug shot and finger prints, standard procedure. In the other cell was a girl who was puking the entire time I was in there.
After about 2 hours the cop tells me I can go. I thought I was gonna have to post bail or at least stay in there longer, but I wasn't gonna ask, I just left. So I go next door which apparently is where my friends dorm turns out to be. This was a horrible experience and I don't wish it on anybody. All of this is finally off my record so it makes life easier, but it took almost six years to get it off.
