You said you were arrested? What happened?
I was shopping looking for Benny & Joon and I was looking through the VHS tapes and I put them back and I left but when I was leaving a store I was waiting for the highway to clear up so I can pull onto it and then there was a police car and one of the officer's in it was looking at me and he pointed back and I couldn't figure out what he wanted so I pulled back into the parking lot to see what they wanted and they get out telling me I'm on the wrong side of the road and I said "The road?"
I was aksed to see my lisence and registeration and then I was told to step out and they told me I was arrested for stealing a video tape and I was shocked and then I was scared because i thought someone was playing a prank on me and I thought the whole thing was maybe an act just for a joke and I said "This isn't funny." and they said "Oh this is real all right."
I was taken to their car and they asked for my phone number and he called my parents to tell them I was arrested for taking a videotape and I be at the station. I was handcuffed but I wasn't put in the cell. I was very scared and embrassed and thought it was the end of my life because I knew the whole school would probably know on Monday and all of them would think I was some criminal and stay away from me and tease me for the rest of my high school life.
My parents came to the station and got me and my dad told them to search my car so they did. My parents were appauled how they handeled it. They arrest me for soemthing I didn;t do and they could have searched my car on the spot when they pulled me over but instead they had to arrest and me they were volenteer officers, not real ones.
Of course my whole school knew about the arrest on Monday and everyone asked me why did I get pulled over and they even asked me they heard I was in the police car, why and I told them I was arrested and they were shocked "You were arrested, why?"
No one knew I was arrested till i blabbed it out because I assumed they knew since they knew I was pulled over but it didn't change my life in high school. They just thought it was funny I be falsly arrested because some store owner thought I took something. I didn't go in that store for months and it took me a while to go back in there again.
I did get this for a week "Beth got pulled over" "You got pulled over" and then it died down and I only got it from a few kids in special ed. and then they stopped. Everyone moved on that quick after I told them what happened.