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An illegal substance. Don't really want to say much on this forum without causing too much fuss. The thing was we revealed where everything was and was very cooperative with them. Me and my friends were actually joking around with the cops.. we seamed to get along. They weren't sure how much the citation was going to be at the time. They took my information, took our "stuff" and told us to have a good time and we went right in. No arrests or anything.
Post by SilentEyedStorm on Jan 23, 2014 23:38:11 GMT -5
Last year, I was working a 12 hour 3p-3a Toll Booth shift on Wed and saw a car load of guys get held up when one of them owned up to a baggie of, well, not pot. After spending some time at the Sheriff's tent, I was amazed the guy ended up passing thru (after giving a description of the roadside seller of said goods, I discovered) with a citation in his hand.....sound familiar?
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Post by cakejaples on Jan 23, 2014 23:55:01 GMT -5
I had the same troubles last year, outside the gates, same amount on my citation as well. I paid mine off, and I'm worried about getting into an issue next year due to a year period that remains in TN after it happened. However, I'm likely to be wayyyy less stupid this year. That 2 grand hurt oh so bad. Don't put yourself at that risk before entering the gates.
Bonnaroo would not know or care if you were Charlie Manson on the run. Or if you name matches your ticket. Or if you have outstanding warrants in 50 states and 12 countries, as long as you do not bring in glass bottles.
The TN cops, on the other hand, do care, and care a lot. No contact, no problem.
Slightly OT: there was a dude on the Lockn board last year who was totally paranoid about the organizers tracking him with RFID. Like anyone cared about him and where he was. He knew this to be a fact, and I think he also was concerned about drones. Turns out Lockn didn't even use RFID bracelets. Can you imagine being camped next to someone like that? FML.
I can tell you didn't read this board circa 2010 when they started using RFIDs at Bonnaroo.
Edit: or when the Tower was built
or just about every year with the parking helicopter is actually the DEA
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Most courts will work with you on setting up a payment plan, but, a lot want you to appear in person to set them up. It's the only way the courts can get any type of reimbursement for high fines/court costs. Give them a call, I'm sure Coffee County has plenty of people that get the same citations and can't pay it all at once. Getting into roo really depends on when you had to pay the fine by. If it hasn't passed that date you are fine. If it's passed that date, you could get into some trouble if you were one of the random cars that gets searched by police and they ran your id. More than likely though, if TN is like VA, only your driving privilege would be suspended in that state until you paid your fines and you would be good to go if you weren't driving. Just don't be the driver and don't have anything in the car that shouldn't be there. If you do that you should be ok.
Or there might already be a bench warrant out for your arrest.
This is more likely given how TN works, they will let you self book for small amounts of drugs. However if you do not show up there will be a warrant out for you. Honestly OP you should take care of this instead of Bonnaroo if that is what is necessary, or one day you will start a new job and get a big surprise when the cops come get you a few weeks later.
I was just curious, before I waste my time and more importantly money on one of my favorite excursions. If I received a citation last Bonnaroo outside the gate, but for whatever reason I wasn't able to pay it will I still be able to go to the festivities this year? I realize that I'd have to not cause much attention to myself that's why me and the passengers in my car will be completely clean but I'm just wondering if my i.d. will be ran through the system for whatever reason or when I buy my ticket my name will come up in some sort of Tennessee law data base. I'm no outlaw or anything but I still really worried about going to jail at the gate cause I didn't pay my citation. Please Help... I'm waiting on this info to decide if I want to go. Bonnaroo is amazing. I don't want to miss it.
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Or there might already be a bench warrant out for your arrest.
This is more likely given how TN works, they will let you self book for small amounts of drugs. However if you do not show up there will be a warrant out for you. Honestly OP you should take care of this instead of Bonnaroo if that is what is necessary, or one day you will start a new job and get a big surprise when the cops come get you a few weeks later.
if you've made no attempt what-so-ever to take care of your $2,000 fine, you are guaranteed to have a warrant by now. if you drive a car that is registered to you to bonnaroo then it is possible that any TN cruiser that gets close enough to you could get a hit off of your license plate which gives them PC to pull you over. Depending on the severity of the crime, they may have put the warrant into the NCIC system (nationwide system) and put an extradition radius of surrounding states as well, meaning cruisers in every state surrounding TN could also get a hit off of your license plate- IF THE VEHICLE IS REGISTERED TO YOU and if they even put it into the state & nationwide systems. getting into roo will not be a problem, your drive down is what can get you in trouble. you should be able to go to coffee county's website and put your name into a database somewhere and see if you have any outstanding warrants.
overall, don't drive your own vehicle, don't drive like an idiot, don't carry illegal substances, and you'll be fine. or, like others have pointed out, you could just take care of things and possibly have to skip out on roo this year...
also, unless they put you into a nationwide system, any state only background check that is out of state will not get a hit on current outstanding warrants in TN, unless again, you're in the NCIC system or your state requests an NCIC check, which would then hit on an out of state warrant. but still, unless extradition reaches to where you are you're not going to be arrested at your house.
i try not share this information, i feel like i lead a double life. but i work for the sheriff's dept where i live, used to work in records where my job was sadly putting in warrants. i always felt bad when i'd petty crimes, mainly possession or paraphernalia or something of those sorts. but whenever i'd see like a rape warrant or something it'd make me feel better about what i was doing... currently i'm a 911 dispatcher which makes me feel less guilty. i feel like i actually HELP people now....
although this one time someone called 911 because they "accidently" ate some mushies and didn't want to be tripping anymore. i had to suppress* laughter at that one. like dude, just go lay down, listen to some music, close your eyes, and enjoy the next few hours....
i try not share this information, i feel like i lead a double life. but i work for the sheriff's dept where i live, used to work in records where my job was sadly putting in warrants. i always felt bad when i'd petty crimes, mainly possession or paraphernalia or something of those sorts. but whenever i'd see like a rape warrant or something it'd make me feel better about what i was doing... currently i'm a 911 dispatcher which makes me feel less guilty. i feel like i actually HELP people now....
although this one time someone called 911 because they "accidently" ate some mushies and didn't want to be tripping anymore. i had to suppress* laughter at that one. like dude, just go lay down, listen to some music, close your eyes, and enjoy the next few hours....
Did you tell him to dim the lights and listen to the Allman Brothers.
i try not share this information, i feel like i lead a double life. but i work for the sheriff's dept where i live, used to work in records where my job was sadly putting in warrants. i always felt bad when i'd petty crimes, mainly possession or paraphernalia or something of those sorts. but whenever i'd see like a rape warrant or something it'd make me feel better about what i was doing... currently i'm a 911 dispatcher which makes me feel less guilty. i feel like i actually HELP people now....
although this one time someone called 911 because they "accidently" ate some mushies and didn't want to be tripping anymore. i had to suppress* laughter at that one. like dude, just go lay down, listen to some music, close your eyes, and enjoy the next few hours....
Did you tell him to dim the lights and listen to the Allman Brothers.
that's awesome, i feel like that's exactly how i would've sounded. i really did want to offer the guy some advice, like drink milk or something... but i felt like if i said anything at all on a recorded line like that i could get in trouble...
also the best part of the entire thing is how he said he accidently ate them. he said that some random person at the bar gave him some brownies, he ate them and while he was riding his bicycle home he realized he was feeling a little funny and couldn't stop laughing. but after the giggles went away we noticed that everything was getting smooth and it looked funny when he was looking at the mirror in the bathroom. after almost two hours of looking at things is when he decided to call. i had to hang up the phone so fast so that i didn't burst into laughter. its still my favorite 911 call to date.
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