Sheila goes to Jail
“The two most common questions you get in jail are, “What you in for?” and, “This your first time being locked up?” The other gals awaiting arraignment were in for the following reasons: there was a redhead who had illegally subletted her apartment, a small Japanese exotic dancer who hit her boyfriend with a frying pan (“He had it comin’”), a cluster of Spanish-speaking girls who clustered in the corner and did not socialize, an older Spanish-speaking women for singing for change in the subway, a thirtysomething black woman for a suspended license, a pair of sisters for larceny, check and credit card fraud, a college girl accused of stealing $4,000 from work (she assured us she had not), and a sweet girl in a short coral dress and heels who had been accused of kicking a car while leaving a nightclub. She hadn’t kicked the car, but had put up a struggle upon being arrested: “It’s because I’m black, isn’t it!” It probably was”
- via Gawker
“If “Law & Order” is any guide, now that you’re “in the system,” you’ll be one of the suspects for every crime that happens in the city over the next 10 years. Hope your photo doesn’t vaguely resemble any murderers.”
I know TedSez is trying to be funny here, but the thing is, it’s true…. The simple act of being arrested for something completely innocuous and being processed through the system, mug shots and all, could one day later be the catalyst to decades in prison for something some other person did. Totally Ridiculous.
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