worst run-in with the law

In the July 08 Issue of Skateboarder Magazine we asked various pros what their worst run-ins with the law had been thus far. They shared their experiences. Now it's time to share yours!

Feel free to also head over to the message boards where you can bullshit on people's stories or just ask them how their court dates panned out.

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Reader Comments

Posted Mon May12, 2008, 5:40 PM — By will

My buddies and me were skating at this college and a squad car pulled up. Usually we'd just walk up to the cop and he'd just tell us to leave but for some reason my buddy just took off. So my other three buddies took off too, so not wanting to get left behind, I followed suit. We ran down a one way street then ducked into these alleys behind some apartments and were trying to get back to the car so we could just roll home, but every time we got out to a street to get back to the car another squad car would roll up and we'd have to run the opposite way. Long story short, after I don't know how long of running we finally made it back to the car and there weren't any cops in sight. My buddy got his keys out and opened up the trunk so we could throw our boards in and as soon as the trunk opened there were seriously a dozen squad cars all around, lights and sirens blaring. i don't know how we got out of it, but none of us got tickets or anything. just our names taken down, but it was still

Posted Tue May13, 2008, 12:11 PM — By Adam

Skating the Penn campus in West Philly by myself on ledges, open to the street, no "NO Skateboarding" or "No Trespassing" signs anywhere. A campus cop runs up on me and gets in my face. I'm against a wall and my board is on the ground at my feet. I try to tell him I'll leave. I reach for my board to split and he grabs me by the throat and throws me against the wall: I can't talk or breath. As his backup arrives, he lets go of my throat and starts telling them how he repeatedly told me to leave, how I resisted and he had to try to remove me forcibly (I was ready to get the fuck out of there the moment I saw the dude). Four hours in a holding cell while they drum up a ticket for trespassing and try to get their storys straight. My throat is completely black and blue the next morning and when I contest the trespassing ticket in court, the judge and cop greet each other as old friends. The judge won't listen to my side, won't look at the photos of my bruised throat and ma

Posted Wed May14, 2008, 2:12 PM — By Mike

I was skating a pool at this torn down house with my dad and one of his buddies. Cops came up and for some reason thought that we were spray painting the pool and the torn down house. They wanted to look at our hands to see if we had paint on them. My dad told them that we were only here to skate the pool and that we were not bothering anyone. The cop checked my dad's ID to see if he had any warrants and made some comments about him still skateboarding and teaching his son the break the law. This made my dad mad and he told the cop that he was making it hard for him to teach me respect for the law. That pissed the cop off and he told us to leave and never come back or he would write us all tickets. We went back though.

Posted Fri May16, 2008, 3:50 PM — By bryce beeler

it was a week from my 18th birthday, and i was at the local park skating. now to set the record straight the local SKATERS paid for the construction of the park, without any support from local bikers and inliners, so the park was built smaller and bikes were not allowed by the city. one of the more then dumb local bikers showed up and i stopped him at the gate, you cant ride here,fag." as niceley as i could say. he dropped his bike and took a swing. he missed and i hit him as hard as i could and he went lights out. i left and went home cause i was scared, but my house was only like 2 blocks from the park. a few minutes later i saw a cop car pull up so i opened the door. when i stepped out the door i noticed all the other cops that had come around the side of my apartment, there were like ten or so and they all had there guns drawn. long story short i guess they said i broke his cheek, but on the plus side he got in a fight later, and they couldnt prove who actually broke his cheek. sk8 for life.

Posted Fri May16, 2008, 4:56 PM — By Garrett Timko

Once I was skating this gap across from some ladies house. No signs or nothin. Plus it wasn't even anybodies property. But she comes out and told me the cops were coming. I replied with a casual ok. The cops showed up and took my board out from under me and started pushing. Then they had me take the line test and all that bullshit. Then said I failed and took me downtown. Where they retested me and the lead po-po told me to "sit the fuck down while they went over the results. I said that was "fucking ignorant to swear" and then they found I was completely sober but I apparently have tickets for, disrupting the peace, resisiting arrest, insubordination of the law and about 4 more. Hell court on June 4th! Hello probation!

Posted Fri May16, 2008, 6:03 PM — By will

Garrett, that is fucked

Posted Fri May16, 2008, 10:57 PM — By charlie

Well well well you was this old wearhouse about a mile or so from my house and some people built some ramps and stuff in it.We sk8ed it for about 2 weeks and the ramps where good too only made up of stuff in the place.Like this quarter pipe made of ghetto ply wood and a fun box with refrigerators for hubbas and tons more stuff it was basicly like the warehouse level form THPS1 just smaller and minuse the giant half pipe and taxi.So then one day a biker came and took pictures of the place and we just stared at him like "dude are you serious".Then bikers came and more came then soon we went there early one day befor the bickers came and just as me and my friends where about to go in we here some people in there yell and we took off into the woods next to it and watch 4 bikes come out hand cuffed.There where a few cop cars parked down the road so they most likely just stayed in there till someone went in .Now a year and a half later it was torn down and now it is just a empty lot. P.S. Thanks to who m

Posted Mon May19, 2008, 1:47 PM — By Jabba,,,

Last summer me and my homies would mobb down these hills we found in AZ. They were the kind of hills you would hit from side to side while hitting driveways and curb cuts etc...just haulin ass intill you got to the bottom, then we would get a ride back up the hill and rush it again and again. Well, this one lady kept waiting for us and would spray us with her hose. We kept away from her side of the street every time after one of the homies hit her puddles and went down hard cracking his head open and got 15 stitches. Towards the end of the summer this lady was so frustrated with us that she called the cops on us. We are coming down the hill hard getting close to her house already planning on hitting the opisite side of the street when we see a 2 cop car road block from one side of the street to the other right in front of this crazy ladies house? At this point it is way to late to stop safely so we all go down a couple feet shy of the road block road rash and all just to get busted by the pigs. Lame ass lady

Posted Tue May20, 2008, 10:31 AM — By Jr

me and my friends were at a high school in our city and there were like 13 kids there just skating plus us. everybody was in the front and its not like we were not visible i mean the school faced the streeet.so were skating and this cop car shows up this is not unlikely cause we always get kicked out but this cop was a dick we told him we would leave but he was like "NO" and "SIT YOUR ASS DOWN" he wanted us to get all of our ID's out so we did but there was like 5 cars cause most of the dudes there drove there so he told us that those of us that were over 18 were going to county and the ones under would go to juvenile and he would take our boards and impound our cars. it was like the day before thanxgiving and we told him to be generous and let us go but he was like a dick and was like i dont care wut holiday it was he said that he was in the army and he never celebrated a holiday but long story short he let us go with a warning he had us there for like 2hours but let us go

Posted Fri May23, 2008, 9:37 AM — By Christeez

ME and some of my friends were at the skate park and some randomdude came up there with some green tilt. So like seven of us got drunk, (All of us were underage) and some girl called the cops cause her friend was gonna give head to myfriend. So we dipped. Then we went to some apartments and we parked. And some lady cop stoppped right behind us and sat for like 2 minutes. then she left. so we dipped out again to a middle school. we called our friend at the park and he said there werent any cops and he was skating again. so we went over to the park and a cop was parked right outside the park.. He gave everione breathalizers and my friend took the fall for everyone. he said that he got all of it. then we went to ourother friendss house.and we got some pizza and went back to the park./. they ended up leaving me and told me that i had to go home drunk. That sucked.

Posted Fri May23, 2008, 11:33 PM — By Twitch

So I was skating this gap from a sidewalk to a parking lot on Halloween and this lady cop pulls up and starts yelling at me. My friend jumped in and said that the cop was being unreasonable to give a couple of teens a ticket for an activity. Its not like we're stealing or killing people. So the cop screams, "If you punk asses want to give me your addresses I can come and fuck up your property, you see how you like it!" So we shut the fuck up and got the tickets. Then the next day we were skating to the park and the same cop pulls us over and calls 3 more officers. In the end, me, my friends Eddy and Mitch, and some other skater we met had to spend 2 nights in prison and had to pay a $250 fine. It truly sucked giant donkey testicles.

Posted Thu May29, 2008, 6:18 PM — By mother leopard

i was throwing up satan tags on a police station when a cop came out and totally went ballistic! he said he was a good christian and i said i wanna rage all night and hail to lucifer all fucking day! then i busted that pig right in his snout and let him drop, i dipped out after that but not before i left a darkthrone mix tape next to his dusty ass. cops cant get none wrap em n roll em cuz i pour that 100 proof on bitches heads. satan for life

Posted Wed Sep24, 2008, 3:43 PM — By j boy

me n my crew were skate ing n the square were theres a no skate ordanince n we were mindin our business wen outa no were 5 cop cars show up n jus bum rush n they like throw us against the wall n pat us down did the breathalizer shit n took us to a holdin cell 4 3 hours 4 no reason they said we were sober n kuld go n dats wat we told em to begin with but the still took us n my buddy wound up wit his face all scabed up n i got away wit only few bruises n shit but neways f*ck the police

Posted Thu Oct30, 2008, 5:16 PM — By john

the police in Baltimore ar MEAN!!!!!!!!

Posted Tue Feb 3, 2009, 9:50 AM — By 2me

this actually happend yesterday but me and my friend john and chris were at a parking garage on the 5th floor and we were skatin and filmin then we hear sirens that were rly close and it was from inside and we dipped down the stairs to the second floor and thats were the cop was and he was giving some one a ticket i guess but he saw us with our boards and it clearly says everywere that theres no skateboarding no trespasing and no smoking and me and chris had lit cigs and we just booked it to my house but he followed us and he took our names hope nothin happens

Posted Fri May 8, 2009, 3:28 PM — By ginny

i was skating in front of a target since i had dated the po-po there and he was like "yeah sure skate here" but then he quit and a new po-po was stationed there and i found that out when i arrived there to skate with my dude friends and i was the only one who was called out on it. he came up to me grabbed my board and pushed me and said get the hell out of here, i pointed out nicely that there were other skaters here but he pushed me down and said if i see u here one more time, im going to take u down to the station. i wanted to kick his ass sooooo badly

Posted Thu Sep10, 2009, 7:06 AM — By Cico

My self and a couple of buddies were skating a pretty tight six-stair in downtown tucson. We are all of age, so of course we had a cooler in the truck filled with some ice cold coors light. After about an hour a couple of cops roll up and start givin us shit. They smelled alcohol in my buddies breath and breathylized all of us. Long story short, we all got OVIs (operating vehicle while influenced) which is just as bad a a DUI. Fucked in the ass.

Posted Tue Sep22, 2009, 12:02 PM — By J.J

One day me and a my home boy Austin went to skate mill st. middle school we brought his handrail an skated the stairs out of no where while pulling a feeble a janitor takes my board right from under me and my friends board to I told him sir your hitting a twelve year old boy. yeah i'm twelve, and he tried to punch me this time so i duck grabbed my board and Austins took took my friends handrail and ran to his house. 20min later a cop is there and we run to his house again.

Posted Thu Oct22, 2009, 11:05 AM — By Ricky

I was running through the streets naked when a cop raped and molested me

Posted Thu Nov12, 2009, 12:49 AM — By Eric

One day me and my friend were skating in downtown livermore and I was doing some stuff on a ledge and he was filming, and then my friend yelled "COPS!!!" And what do you know? Theres a cop car right there. So me and my friend try to get away, then the fucker follows us and tells us to stop were we are. Then he comes at me pissed as hell and asks me why Im wasting my time skating. So then we get into this big argument. At one point he asks me why I would pay for a board, and I tell him that I get stuff for free. That just about set it off. Then he wrote up a committed vandalism thing in my permanent record at the station along with a burglary account for another incedent 2 days before, that had nothing to do with burglary in the first place. COPS SUCK