And then detained and then strip searched when police arrive.
Or had any experiences similar?

yes

Rick wrote:
Not shoplifting, but been patted down and had my pockets emptied and things searched by police a number of times...one time they happenned to pull me over near the front gates of a major festival....they did the whole pat down, pockets out, all the car doors open and rummage thru it etc etc...i musta had a few thousand people staring at me for about 20 minutes...i guess you could call it detained...it felt long enough, but i was amused the whole time, there was nothing to find.

Id like to think a lot of drugs etc were shifted around/were in cars that drove past/changed hands etc in the time they wasted on me.

Rick wrote:
Yes, when I was a wee scamp.

Treatment from the law included getting a kick-in, being made to run up and downstairs in the nick whilst having pairs of boots wrapped around my neck and having my head stuffed down the bog pan.
Gotta love coppers!

hugorune wrote:
I got pulled by customs at heathrow, the full naked strip search, customs still give me the shivers even now.

jhado wrote:
Not the rubber glove as well, surely?

hugorune wrote:
The full monty mate, not a pleasant experience.

I've been stopped by the cops yeah...I was just passing through, I wanted something to eat...the cop told me I wouldn't be popular in his town so he drove me to the outskirts...I wouldn't have it, so I started to walk back towards town, but the cop saw me in his rear view mirror and drove back and gave me a pat down. He found my hunting knife so he arrested me for vagrancy and possessing a conceiled weapon...at the station the cops wanted my name, and to take my prints, I wouldn't cooperate so they ended up hosing me down...then they tried to give me a shave with a cut throat razor, that was the last straw, so I went apeshit and escaped the station...it was all caught on film;



I escaped into the woods on a motorcycle, and the cops followed, I ended up hanging off a cliff...I kicked all their asses though
I was pushed, they were pushing me and I didn't know why.

Hand yourself in, John.

jhado wrote:
They made you strip to 'Hot Stuff'?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, no fingers in my butt unless I get dinner and a show first.

hugorune wrote:
Notes were taken and logged the first time you said it.

I've been stopped by the cops a couple of times. One time I had a carrier bag containing a bottle of Methadone, and a load of copied games, "what's in the bag?", I said "just some computer games", and held out the bag towards him...he took my word for it and let me go
The meth was my step dad's, he'd necked all his and needed more from his bro to tide him over until his next script He could have gotten me arrested, the fool!

I've never been caught accused of shopplifting

psketti wrote:
I thought they would have been.

I need to be less revealing in future.

irrepressible wrote:
Blimey, that was a close call.

The bugger would have only taken them and sold them on. Coppers always make the best crooks.

irrepressible wrote:
That's living on the edge, all you needed to make that complete is a crazy girlfriend talking trash to the cops while they questioned you, which actually happened to a friend of mine his gf got him arrested with her loud mouth and abrasive personality

hugorune wrote:
They don't actually "probe " you, they wear the gloves so they can part your cheeks and have wee look up Abs-valley.

Sods found my stash though, although it wasn't up my arse

Please tell me you managed to squeeze off a fart.

My favourite Salford scam used to involve pretending to shoplift by taking a cassette into Woolies, pulling it out of your pocket, fiddling nervously and putting it back in your pocket. Then an amicable agreement was usually reached to avoid the embarrassment of 'accusing innocent members of the public' allegations from becoming public.

You youths won't remember, but Woolie's pick 'n' mix was just asking for it