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| Story Time; New Years Eve | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 1 2008, 04:13 PM (225 Views) | |
| East Anarx | Jan 1 2008, 04:13 PM Post #1 |
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Prologue: 3 days before New Years Eve: My friends and I, (I'll just call them Feesh, Jewbacca, Diamond, and Nips,) went just outside of town and collectively purchased about 30 dollars worth of fireworks, mainly the cheap kind, but a couple of the good ones too. We then took them back into town and stored them in Jewbacca's van. Note: Illegal Activities Thus Far: 1. Jewbacca has a provisional license stating that he is only allowed to have one other person in his car; he had four. 2. Possession of fireworks is illegal inside the city limits of Austin, Texas. Chapter 1: New Year's Eve, 8 pm: Jewbacca and I pick up Feesh from his work and we go to an elementary school playground and shoot off bottle rockets with the sticks pulled off while we wait for Diamond and Nips to arrive. Once they do, we drive to the mall and park, planning to check out the closed down movie theater nearby. Note: Illegal Activities Thus Far: 1. Jewbacca has a provisional license stating that he is only allowed to have one other person in his car; he had four. 2. Possession of fireworks is illegal inside the city limits of Austin, Texas. 3. Use of fireworks is illegal inside the city limits. Chapter 2: New Year's Eve, 10 pm: We gather up about half of the fireworks and 5 lighters and start walking down to the theater the city had closed down a few months ago. Suddenly a mall security car drives up and starts flashing their lights at us. We manage to cut through some woods and lose the security guard but suspect that he will stay near Jewbacca's van and wait for us. We arrive at the theater and notice that a side door is wide open. We enter the theater, even though the inside was dark, covered in graffiti, and smelling of stale popcorn and hobos. Nips takes out his pipe and takes a few hits while the rest of us shoot off various fireworks inside the theater, nearly causing several fires. We then fought a roman candle war inside the theater before leaving. On the way back to the van, we see several flashing mall security car lights around Jewbacca's van and give Nips all 5 lighters before deciding to split up; Feesh and Jewbacca will go directly and nonchalantly to the van while Nips, Diamond, and I will walk around the mall and wait for them to pick us up. Note: Illegal Activities Thus Far: 1. Jewbacca has a provisional license stating that he is only allowed to have one other person in his car; he had four. 2. Possession of fireworks inside the city limits 3. Use of fireworks inside the city limits 4. Evading mall security 5. Trespassing on City Property 6. Vandalism of City Property 7. Underage possession of lighters 8. Possession of marijuana 9. Possession of marijuana smoking paraphernalia Chapter 3: New Year's Eve, 11 pm: While Nips, Diamond, and I are walking back to the mall, 3 cop cars drive up and surround us in the middle of an empty parking lot. They tell us to put our hands on our heads and then they proceeded to handcuff, question, and search us. They questioned us separately so I told them we were just popping some fireworks and vaguely gestured in the direction of the theater. Diamond told them we were just looking around the theater but weren't shooting off any fireworks. Nips told them he had smoked pot and then shot off fireworks inside the theater but that we were just watching. After writing down our information and putting us in the backs of three separate cars, they drove us down to where Jewbacca and Feesh were. I counted 5 cop cars, 2 mall security cars, and about 10 cops and 5 mall security guards. Apparently Feesh and Jewbacca had told them that we were with them and that all we had done was walk down to the McDonald's three miles away and then walked back. They sat us all out in a row out in the cold and talked amongst themselves for about 30 minutes before suddenly saying that we could all go, except for Nips. We all got back in the van and watched them shine their flashlights in Nips' eyes and then search him, conveniently missing the pipe stashed in his sock and the 5 lighters in his inside coat pocket. Nips walked to the van, got in, and then we all left. Somehow, after all that, no one got in trouble. We just drove back to Feesh's house and Feesh's mom served us all champagne while we watched the ball drop on TV. |
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| Union | Jan 1 2008, 06:04 PM Post #2 |
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Underage people can own lighters. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 1 2008, 06:12 PM Post #3 |
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Okay, I wasn't sure. But Feesh kept saying that it was illegal. |
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| Union | Jan 1 2008, 06:49 PM Post #4 |
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It ain't :) :P |
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| Draxis | Jan 2 2008, 01:12 AM Post #5 |
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Just not purchase them. I think it depends on where you are though... Or maybe thats just a rule of thumb that places go by as I know friends of mine that couldn't buy lighters until they were 18 and could buy cigs. Though who knows, silly law if there is one. |
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| Union | Jan 2 2008, 06:33 AM Post #6 |
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I purchased them all the time. |
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| New Harumf | Jan 2 2008, 09:56 AM Post #7 |
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Stupid behaviors and anicdotes: 1. Texans and Fireworks: Some people should just not be allowed to get fireworks, and Texans rank number one. One New Years Eve I drove to Lake Louisville outside of Dallas with a friend where we were told prople gathered to blow off fireworks. This was true. However, Texans took great joy aiming bottle rockets at other people's open trunks that were filled with fireworks. This is stupid. 2. One would think E would have learned his lesson about lighters. Apparently, the genetic disposition of being a Texan takes over from common sense, 3. We yanks always have a rehearsed story when going about committing illegal mischief. This way we avoid telling five different versions of what we are doing. 4. Never. Carry. Drugs. With. You. when out and about doing illegal mischief. If one is caught you all get busted for posession. See earlier anicdote about my nephew, his ski trip and his pharmacy license. 5. Do not hang with morons. I am not, however, sure if this is advice for E, or E's friends. 6. It. Was. New. Year's. Eve. This is the easiest night of the year to get a DATE. You can generally call any girl at 8:00pm, and if they are home, they will be happy to go out with you, desperate, in fact. No woman want's to spend New Year's Eve with her parents. Hanging with Feesh, Jewbacca, Diamond, and Nips cannot be as good as hanging with ANY female when you are seventeen. 7. Driving ANYWHERE with dope in the car is dopey. Cars are completely searchable as are drivers and passengers. You have already surrendered your civil rights by being in a car. There is more, but I will leave it here. |
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| East Anarx | Jan 2 2008, 02:10 PM Post #8 |
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My point was kind of that nothing happened, despite all of our stupid, dangerous, and illegal behavior. That's what was noteworthy about the story. We do stupid, dangerous, and illegal stuff all the time. The difference is that this time, we were surrounded by like 30 cops and caught red-handed and we still managed to not get in trouble. |
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| New Harumf | Jan 2 2008, 02:31 PM Post #9 |
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You must discontinue this behavior before you are of adult age. Jails in Texas for adults, especially pretty ones, are not fun! |
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| Draxis | Jan 2 2008, 06:32 PM Post #10 |
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And just think of how close you are to Mexico... That and if they put you in a dress with some oranges you would look like a girl. So beware! Beware! Also NH, I think I found the flaw in your New Years Eve and Women reference, all the women I know, right now, are in relationships. So I lacked that ability, and just worked instead. |
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| Catholic Europe | Jan 4 2008, 11:16 AM Post #11 |
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I had a slight scare on New Years Eve as I had to do a drop off for a mate of mine at Victoria Station. I was carrying 15 pills and 5 grams of coke and Victoria was beginning to swarm with police when I was going there (4pm). Luckily, there wasn't a sniffer dog there yet and I didn't get caught! :D |
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| New Harumf | Jan 4 2008, 12:35 PM Post #12 |
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Oh, I am soo sorry, CE! Just think of the fun you missed, being the bitch of Cell Block C!! |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Jan 4 2008, 03:22 PM Post #13 |
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Your new years was laaaaame. Uber lame. Lametastic. And what's with you Colonalists and your fireworks laws? We don't have any of that BS in the UK. If you're 18 you can buy fireworks and take them inside a city and use them. Now, Invisions' ToU prevents me from promoting any illegal activity or telling you how to commit a crime. So instead of telling you what you should of done (or for that matter what I did) - I'm going to second what NH said about getting a date on New Years Eve. |
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