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Thursday, April 21, 2011

27 days of noodles in the pokey

Posted on Thursday, April 21

Going to jail sucks. Going to jail for stupid shit like expired tags sucks even more. Not many are raising their hand stuntin' that they went to jail cause they didnt pay tickets for violating driving regulations. Whatever, your in. Now your trying to figure out how the hell to get out...
Day 1) "All right, what they hell do I need to do get out of here. Lets see. I got x amount of tickets, and owe x amount of dollars. Oh, I know..Ill ask the boys in blue (and women too) what to do, who to pay..YEAH YEAH!"
Day 2) hmm....Ive asked 4 people who to pay and what to do, but no one seems to have a clue. Ramen Noodles cast $3 a pack? What the fuck...
Day 3-8) All right, Finally, after stewing for 5 days and mastering Spades, I found out how much I owe. They must know the right amount right? Ill tell my people to pay it when they call so I can get the hell out of this crapshack. Dont they serve any solid foods up in this joint....?
Day 9) Ok.they've paid. Its 4 in the afternoon. I cant wait to get out of here.. waiting waiting waiting...2am rolls around. The boy in blue who cant see his feet comes wobbling over to me.."So I know I told you if you paid $700 you could get out of here? Well...ACTUALLY its $400 more." WHAT?! "Yeah, youve been misinformed. Sorry. Want me to tell the person whose been in the waiting area for 3 hours your not getting out?" Dick.
Day 10) My people mustered up another $400 and paid it. Man, Im fortunate. FINALLY I can go home and stop watching Lockdown on tv every fuckin day. You wanna watch Lockdown WHILE your on lockdown? Really? waiting...waiting...waiting..4am rolls around. What is taking so long? The hamburglar walks in again..."So you know i told you if you paid $400 more you would get out? yeah...well..(sounding like the boss from Office Space), actually its $200 more. Hmm..someones waiting out there in the waiting room for you probably. Ill go ahead and tell them they can leave without you."
17 days later people...17 FUCKIN DAYS LATER, they figure out they had the paperwork and amount owed all wrong. Yeah, people go to jail. Some deserve it, some people were at the wrong place and the wrong time, and some were just lazy with payin tickets, but that doesnt give these assholes the right to sit on their asses collecting unmerited money and treating anyone like shit because you dont make shit in salary. 27 days spent in jail. My people went back and forth back and forth between court houses, judges, town halls, everywhere, day in and out, talking to who knows how many blank faces, just to be told in the end "well actually you have to go BACK to that place and do this or that," EVEN THOUGH YOU JUST LEFT THERE AND THEY TOLD YOU TO COME HERE!!
27 days, back and forth between brick building after brick building, talking to dozens, honestly..dozens of people trying to figure out A) HOW MUCH IS OWED B) WHERE DO DO YOU PAY IT C) WHY IS IT THIS AMOUNT WHEN YOUR PARTNER OVER HERE TOLD ME IT WAS THAT AMOUNT!?!?
AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
We rely on law enforcement, they do their thing, I mind my business..whatever. Not until now, when I realized, the majority of those people behind that bulletproof glass, do not give a shit about what they do. People who are bound in jail, realizing they screwed up, just wanting to do the right thing; pay their fine and move on with their life, cant even do that. Backs are turned, hands thrown up in the air. Regardless of the charge, they all look down upon you and see you as an inmate. Not even worth their $9 per hour time..
27 days spent in jail for suspended license tickets because no one would take the time to figure out what was wrong with the paperwork and why the amount owed kept changing. In 27 days over $600 was paid that didnt have to be paid because it takes DAYS for paperwork to get to one office to another. DONT THEY HAVE EMAIL??! 27 days, an No one would take the time to figure out why the courthouse didnt even have a record of even BEING in jail. Something's gotta change.
In 27 days, I have lost all respect for this local institution.

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In the classic Simpsons bully voice, HAHA!!!! Should have paid that shite before going to jail...

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Posted by nanners on April 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM

Hey, I have an idea! In the future, pay your tickets so you don't go to jail! Where have you been parking, on the SIDEWALKS? Did you really think they were just going to go away? Charleston doesn't play, if you didn't know this!

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Posted by Carolina Girl TW on April 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM

How about you pay your taxes like the rest of us? And on time? And stop crying because you got caught. Its YOUR responsibility. Not anyone else's. Grow up.

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Posted by Cheryl67 on April 22, 2011 at 12:40 AM

"You wanna watch Lockdown WHILE your on lockdown?"

This is Pulitzer-level writing. Even with the bad grammar.

At any rate, this person did not need to spend 27 days in lockup over traffic tickets. Seriously. They also didn't need to be yanked around on the amount. The writer is right, he do have to believe that the police are serious about the job and working in the public's best interest. If even half this story is made up, the other half is bad enough to warrant a look at how the police handle this sort of thing.

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Posted by mat catastrophe on April 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM

@Cherly67...read the story again...it doesn't say anything about taxes!

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Posted by JBOAT on April 22, 2011 at 8:18 AM

@mat catastrophe...I totally agree. Yes, people screw up and they dont pay tickets. Good grief, the majority does. When you dont pay for a long time, you go to jail. This story doesn't lay blame on law enforcement for doing their job by putting them in jail for not paying tickets. Nor is it a bitch session about just being in jail. Its a story on how they didn't do their job, and at a costly expense to another; financially and otherwise. Your in there and the next step is to try and to figure out what needs to be done to pay your dues to the government and move on. It taking almost an entire month to realize that paperwork is messed up while your sitting in jail waiting for them to correct it is not right. Being told the amount you owe is different every time you ask, is not right. That goes for anything we put money towards, whether its a ticket or groceries. "Growing up" has nothing to do with this. Is taking the rap for someone else's screw up and slackness make you "grown up"? That seems to be a typical response lately to injustice..."grow up". Regardless of the scale, injustice is what it is. No one, including those who somehow think "growing up" cures all ills, deserves to be dragged through the system like this when your trying to do the right thing after screwing up. And last time I checked, we all screw up sometimes.

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Posted by avande1882 on April 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Ok...I totally understand that this person got screwed over...but let's be real...if they had paid the damn ticket he or she wouldn’t had to experience this...is it right or fair the way they got treated…no…but was it ok not to pay your tickets…no…I hope a lesson has been learned. People don’t realize that they are consequeneces for their actions. Yes…the systems maybe screwed up but it has always been screwed up way before us and will be screwed up after us…they were treated unfairly…but if they had handle his or her business in the first place they wouldn’t be bitching about how wrong the system is…again…we already know the systems is screwed up!!!!

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Posted by jhB on April 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM

True, they should have paid the tickets. Then this wouldnt be an issue. Yeah, we get that. In the present, the now, that "woulda coulda shoulda" theory still doesnt justify ill treatment of another, and it certainly doesn't fix a damn thing. How is wagging your finger in someones face saying "you shoulda done this and you shoulda done that, then none of this would have happened to you" gonna help any situation? Who wants to be told that when they are reaching out for assistance to do the right thing from the only people that can assist them? All you can do is hope that the person, or anyone for that matter, learns from their mistakes. If they do, fantastic; another lesson learned in life! If they dont, their loss; big time.

This person went to jail for evading their responsibilities as a driver in this state. Deserved consequences for their actions. Now they are trying to do the right thing and pay the $, but instead get jerked around by the state, and thats ok because "we know the systems screwed up" and they "shoulda" paid their tickets in the first place? I don't think anyone would be singin this song if it was them or their child in this situation.



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Posted by avande1882 on April 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM

avande1882 and mat cat, you're both missing a huge point here...it's the job of the police to execute warrants and place people behind bars, it's not their job to decide when people get released...

It's not the police but the court/clerk who messed up. the paperwork generated by the court is what got the perp imprisioned and it's the paperwork generated by the court that gets the perp released.

It's not the job of the police, or prision guards to get the perp released, they're just watch dogs at that point.

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Posted by ericloz on April 25, 2011 at 12:07 AM

and of course, judging by the letter, our friend was obviously showing a good attitude and minding his manners, when dealing with authority figures, huh?

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Posted by pissedoff yankee on April 26, 2011 at 6:55 PM

Just to add some facts because I personally know this story thats being told... The jail infact screwed up so bad that time had been served and money had to be refunded which could have all been avoided! OH and also make note that when this person went to jail he was infact in court trying to pay his tickets! He didn't have every last penny because charges were brought up that he had like was stated before already served time for! I think it all depends on work ethic I'm not say that all cops are strait up assholes that don't care about anyone or anything just a fat head and a pay check, but seems to me had someone really sat down took the time to care and paid attention to what they were doing and their job this could have been avoided. And I say someone but there were litterally dozens of them that choose not to do this! Also the person that wrote this letter was not the person in jail. Nor am I.. just throwing a few facts in!

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Posted by clfs182 on April 29, 2011 at 8:38 PM

The storey sounds contrived from the getgo!

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Posted by Jusme on April 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM
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