That was a amazing story, made me nearly spit my tea out.
I only had one real run in with the law that was serious.
I got near arrested for trying to Hijack a plane.
( boy I want to stop the story at this point and just let the rumors fly )
True story, born raised in the Orchard Capital of the world. Now known as SiliconeValley ( SantaClara Valley.)
We lived one block from basically nothing but open land. ( near where the SF stadium is today) But back then
was streams and orchards. We would take our BB guns and walk/ride the creeks, during summer there was a steam, in the
50ft wide gulley we walked in often. One day we just kept going and going. We had our bikes and started out that morning.
Unknown to us we traveled farther then we realized and after going under one bridge later in the day.
We came out the other side and...............
We saw cops on both sides of the gully rifles pointed at us. I was like 13 at the time. I remember wonder what the heck? They were yelling and screaming at us to put our guns down. They couldn't get down to us, so we climbed up what was no concrete creek walls.
Only to get up and realize we were in the San Jose Airport. After they threatened us, interrogated us. No one really looked at the
guns until we said BB guns and their faces dropped. They tried to play it off. But here we are SanJose Airport Security, and The SJ Police
had just caught two kids in a creek with BB guns.
They called our parents, and here is my Mom walking through the airport with a rifle. hahaha.
But God saved us that day from getting shot I supposed as we did not listen to their orders at the creek, we thought they were
insane. And me being dumb, actually pointed the gun at the officer when I handed it to him as were climbing..
Mind you this was the mid 1970's and kids did this. But was like a Three Stooges skit LOL