Yep, I got arrested and went to jail... Or "juvy," or whatever the fuck it's called and however the hell you spell it, haha.
Luckily it happened yesterday, so obviously I wasn't there that long. And I'm sure you're wondering what happened.
Well I was in the car with my mom and my little brother (Who is 14 mind you), I had just gotten my permit. Woo. Oh, and no, I wasn't driving. So anyways, I'm sitting in the back, and my brother will not shut the fuck up in the front seat. After 45 minutes of this I tell him to shut up and poke him fairly hard in the back of the head.
I didn't even "hit" him, I just poked him, or jabbed him maybe. He goes "ow!" even though it probably didn't hurt as much as it surprised him. Also this is the same kid who once yelled "OW!!!" when something he thought was heavy landed on his foot. When he looked down it was a pair of socks.
He did shut up though, and the entire thing could have ended right there, but nope, my moms a fucking retard. She starts freaking out going "oh god oh god I have to call the cops now" (Litterally).
So now she wont shut the fuck up either and I'm just thinking "My god, my family is made up of idiots."
During the entire ride my brother has also been scratching his head, above his eyebrow, and he continued to do so all the way home. When we arrived, my mom was still being a tard and freaking out over absolutely nothing, and she leans over and assumes that my brother is holding his head in pain. She inspects his head, to find that he was mildly bleeding. Not even "bleeding" really.
So I go inside and go downstairs, about 10 minutes later there's a knock on my door and two cops walk in and arrest me for "fifth degree assault." Even though I know it's complete bullshit, and I tell them before they do anything, they're not going to relent because apparently "I have no say and they have proof that I caused him severe injury."
So realizing that there's absolutely no way to fight it, I just go. I go up the stairs handcuffed, and on the way out see my brother laughing on the couch. What a dick.
So I get in the car and the entire way to the place I'm talking to this cop basically trying to annoy him. And I started singing random songs because I was bored, and once again wanted to annoy him, and trust me, I can't sing.
So we get to the place, sit around for awhile, they take my shoes n shit, blah blah blah, and finally they take me up to the place where they keep people and I get to go into my little room, or cell, or as they called it, a "module."
They said I had to stay there for a week, at least. Today my mom picked me up, because you know what? That "bleeding" that my brother had? I guess upon further inspection (Further inspection that should have taken place before arresting me) they were able to get their heads out of their asses and realize that it was in fact not caused by me, but because he kept scratching a mosquito bite.
That's right, I went to jail cause my brother got bitten by a mosquito and wouldn't quit scratching it. What the fuck.
SO, I got out of jail today, and my mom didn't even apologize. What a bitch.
Oh, and now for some details as to what it was like the day I was there. You know what I found out? Juvy (Whatever it is) isn't even bad. If I had to describe it in three words they would be 'boring' and 'horribly inefficient.'
Seriously, I don't understand the concept of this. Your options are basically read, listen to music, or sit there. What's the concept behind this, what are people who actually commited crimes supposed to be learning? In effect they're basically throwing you into a room and going "Alright, now think about what you did for awhile."
And for being such a "bad place," it wasn't like it was horrible. I mean it was boring and there wasn't much choice, but it wasn't "bad." Just neutral really. All I did was read. I just read all day and night. It was actually kind of nice to finally have some time to get in some reading, because at home I can't find the time to pry myself from the computer or video games. In some ways I actually enjoyed taking a little "vacation" from my life of monotony.
Of course, a week or more would have gotten unbearably boring, even with reading.
Also, the food wasn't bad, surprisingly. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the food they served was the same exact food they serve at my school. In fact it was a little better. Example: Today for lunch they had little mini pizza things (The same kind we get at my school), and minestrone (sp?) soup, which we don't even get at my soup. And it was delicious. Though that may be because all I've eaten at home for the past week is sandwiches and pizza rolls.
Also it's not like you were in your room nonstop, quite frequently everyone hung out in a "recreational room" where we could play checkers, chess, watch tv, read out there, talk and such, or whatever. It was strange really.
The only really bad thing was showering, luckily I only had to deal with that this morning. This is where the "inefficient" part really comes into play. Seriously, their shower was simply untolerable. I know it's not supposed to be an "enjoyable visit" or whatever, but the shower was just fucking stupid.
There was a little nozzle sticking out of a wall, and a button. You press the button, it starts shooting water, and here's the kicker, it sprays for a random amount of time every time you press the button! Seriously, I pressed it once and it lasted for like a minute and went off. I press it again and it lasted for like five minutes. I was confused. And when I was done showering the water wouldn't stop going, which is terribly inefficient because there was no way to actually turn it off myself.
Not to mention they have these little tiny bars of soap which aren't exactly easy to wash yourself with. I mean they had little packets of shampoo, couldn't they have gotten a similar deal with body wash? It would be way more efficient in not only not wasting soap (Because after you shower you throw away whatever soap is left) but in being able to effectively wash as well.
Plus the temperature of the water sucked. At first it was freezing cold, as it progressed it got scalding hot, and there was no control on it. So basically it's a fight against time to see if you can wash in cold water before burning yourself.
All in all it wasn't horrible, just really boring and at times inefficient. I'd rather have not went through it on account of a fucking bug bite though.