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I wonder how much money you could have gotten if you would have sued the Pasadena police department when they arrested you and kept you in a holding cell for six hours for taking their picture (with a disposable camera) as the cufffed people for smoking at a bar? And they didn’t bother filing a report either.

enhager,

Man, I had almost forgotten about that one. But they did file some kind of report because I have – or had – a copy of it somewhere around here.

I’m going to look for it and maybe do a blog post on it.

For those curious readers – and prosecutors who would like to build up a pattern against me – I was hanging out with some friends in Pasadena a few years ago, back when I lived in Southern California.

We stepped outside a bar and Pasadena police had a bunch of people lined up against the paddy wagon because they had been smoking in a bar. This area is not exactly South Central LA.

I pulled out a disposable camera and aimed to take a photo and one of the cops told me not to take it.

Yes, same situation as with all these situations I document.

So I did what I do a hundred times over again. I took the photo. Then I kept walking because it wasn’t that big of a deal.

And this young cop, the young ones never have a clue, chased after me and arrested me.

I was so pissed. I ended up in a jail cell for several hours with several suspected cigarette smokers.

They released me at 6 a.m. when they realized they really couldn’t charge me for taking their photo in front of a popular nightspot.

I ended up calling my good friend, Enhager, who lived an hour away in Redlands to pick me up because I also lived in Redlands.

I was so mad that I started to compile a complaint against the Pasadena PD. But then I got recruited to work for the Arizona Republic, so I just neglected it.

So who knows what would have happened.

I’m a strong advocate of sueing for a LOT of money and not settling out of court.

“I was so pissed. I ended up in a jail cell for several hours with several suspected cigarette smokers.”

OMIGOD Carlos! I hope they didn’t exhale on you!!