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[Spider-Nerd]

How in the **** is that a felony?

i don't know, but apparently it's a lot more hardcore than I thought. There are free legal councils on campus every wednesday night so I'll check that out this week and take it from there. There's a law firm like 2 blocks away from me on campus and I'm sure those guys probably deal with this bull **** all the time. I'm hoping i talk to him and he's just like, "yeah yeah, I do this all the time. We'll get it knocked down to some bull **** 200 dollar fine and you can pay me 400 bucks". I just want this thing to go away. Damnit, if only I was already in law school!

 

[Sandman138]

bad news, just found out that this thing goes on your permanent record. Ya know, when you apply for a job you gotta check that box that says you've been convicted of a felony....gotta go get a lawyer

If it is a felony, there should be a way to get a general continuance in which case you will have never been convicted. However, if you do so, you have to stay completely clean, and not put yourself in any sketchy situations, cause if you get in trouble while you're on it you're screwed.

 

[Themanofbat]

Next time, put the bottle in your pants while walking to the party.

 

[jaguarr]

This can't be anything more than a misdemeanor offense, Spider-Nerd. Go talk to a lawyer. Fo' real!

jag

 

[Lackey]

If you weren't arrested, then it's not a felony.

 

[SpideyInATree]

So last thursday night ole spider-nerd decided to head out to a party or two seeing as how it was thursday night at rutgers university. So my roommate and I left out apartment with a gatorade bottle in hand, bottles had gatorade mixed wtih vodka and we proceeded to walk to the party we were heading to. I of course, was paranoid that we were gonna get stopped by the cops but said whatever, there are 30k undergrads at rutgers, nothing's gonna happen. Not 2 blocks from our house a cop pulls up next to us and askes us for the bottles and ID. We give it to him, he advises us that he could arrest us for having alchohol (being that we're both 20 years old) we told him we weren't drinking it as the bottles were closed. Then he said that we should have told him that we were drinking it because that's less serious than not drinking it (I guess minors transporting alchohol is worse). So eventually he gives us two tickets, one each that say and I quote, "Drinking in public (underage) gatorade bottles w/ vodka".

Now, we were'n't actually drinking in public, we just had it with us and at the time I wasn't about to start arguing with the cop as I'm not in law school just yet (about 1.5 years away actually). I looked up the penalty for this kind of thing in New Jersey and apparently this is no joke, minimum fine of five hundred bucks, possible counciling, ect.....

I was wondering if anyone had been in this situation before/had any advice. There are two of us (my roommate and I) so should we get a lawyer? The only reason I would get a lawyer is if it would end up being really working out, because even if that 500 dollar fine is reduced, I'm still gonna have to fork over dough for a lawyer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated......

Dude, talk about some bad luck. I've been pulled over by the cops on two occassions where I had something ridiculously worse going on than you had, and I got away free and clear from both situations. You and your friend must have been giving off a serious vibe for the cops to stop you like that.

Or the simple fact that you both had Gatorade bottles, which is a sign to ANY cop that it's mixed with something.

 

[Prodigy]

I've never had a sip of alcohol in my life, went through college at a big ten school and everything, and my friends are always laughing cause I got more **** from cops than anyone of them, and they are big drinkers. I was once asked what's in the cup... the styrofoam cup from Smoothie King. um, my guess is a smoothie? not only is it not alcohol, it's actually healthy and beneficial to my well being. while walking home from a new years party I was asked to do the alphabet backwards. I did it and get called a smartass. bastards. my favorite was when my friend and I were walking back from a daniel tosh stand up show and joking around and laughing... and I got asked to walk a sidewalk line. "sir, with all do respect, I'll cartwheel it for ya"

but since I don't drink, I typically have no sympathy for someone getting an underage drinking ticket. sorry.

 

[Prodigy]

oh no that was post number 666! ... had to get rid of that

 

[Spider-Nerd]

alright so bottom line, talked to the lawyer, and he's like, "pay me 300, I'll get it knocked down to 100 and you're on ur merry way". Problem solved

 

[kypade]

gud luck with that.

 

[hippy fascist]

So last thursday night ole spider-nerd decided to head out to a party or two seeing as how it was thursday night at rutgers university. So my roommate and I left out apartment with a gatorade bottle in hand, bottles had gatorade mixed wtih vodka and we proceeded to walk to the party we were heading to. I of course, was paranoid that we were gonna get stopped by the cops but said whatever, there are 30k undergrads at rutgers, nothing's gonna happen. Not 2 blocks from our house a cop pulls up next to us and askes us for the bottles and ID. We give it to him, he advises us that he could arrest us for having alchohol (being that we're both 20 years old) we told him we weren't drinking it as the bottles were closed. Then he said that we should have told him that we were drinking it because that's less serious than not drinking it (I guess minors transporting alchohol is worse). So eventually he gives us two tickets, one each that say and I quote, "Drinking in public (underage) gatorade bottles w/ vodka".

Now, we were'n't actually drinking in public, we just had it with us and at the time I wasn't about to start arguing with the cop as I'm not in law school just yet (about 1.5 years away actually). I looked up the penalty for this kind of thing in New Jersey and apparently this is no joke, minimum fine of five hundred bucks, possible counciling, ect.....

I was wondering if anyone had been in this situation before/had any advice. There are two of us (my roommate and I) so should we get a lawyer? The only reason I would get a lawyer is if it would end up being really working out, because even if that 500 dollar fine is reduced, I'm still gonna have to fork over dough for a lawyer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated......

Come to england where the streets are littered with 15 year old kids drinking cider on a friday night