THE SHAWSHANK REPULSION
Okay. Lets get this shit over with. Yes I wound up in jail in Miles City, Montana.
What a shitty run. First stop was Butte. Show sucked ass. I dont know what kind of comedy they wanted, but it seemed like everytime I told a joke, it was always followed up with the classic audience comment "what the fuck?" So needless to say, they didnt get me at the Star Lanes bowling alley in Butte.
Next stop was Great Falls. Wow! Talk about paying your dues and then using that as a tax write off, then getting your big tax check because the write off is so large, then taking that check down to Moneytree, cashing it, then drive to the gun store, buy a gun, then shoot yourself. Yeah. Rough show. Only laugh I got all night was when a dude in the front row yelled out "don't quit your day job!" Which I replied with "sir, if I got a dime for everytime I heard that, I wouldn't have to do comedy"
So onto Miles City, Montana. It was a quick 6 and half hour drive.
Around 8:30 the show starts and I do my thing. It was actually a good show. Had a good time. This is were the trouble begins.
When I have a good show, for some reason the audience, aka my fans, wanna buy me drinks. Which I am usually ok with. So someone bought me a beer, then a shot of Jager, then another beer. I then got invited to go to a bar down the street. Someone bought me a beer there as well. But I didn't finish it. I really wasnt in the mood to drink. I drove over a billion miles that day and I hadn't eaten in 8 hours or so. I had enough of the bar scene so I was going to retire to my hotel room.
Walked to my car and I noticed that the spot where I had parked was a no parking zone during the day. So I decide to move it. Start the car and pull out and go around the corner. Cop pulls me over because I have one headlight out. He askes if I had been drinking at all. I said yes, I had a little. 4 beers and a shot within 3 hours. Didn't think it was a big deal.
Out of nowhere a second cop comes to my window and askes me to get out of the car. They make me do all the drunk driving tests. Follow the pen, stand on one leg, etc. All the things I have trouble doing when I am completley sober, now I have to do it with a little buzz. This goes on for about 15 minutes. I'm thinking Im cool. They are just about to let me go.
Then the unthinkable happens. They tell me to put my hands behind my back. Here comes the handcuffs. Be honest, not really comfortable. I still have the marks. Then they put me in the front seat to do a breath test. Which I think I kicked ass in. I scored a .08. Somehow thats an illegal limit in Montana. So it was the backseat of the cop car for me.
At this point I am still in denial about going to jail. Im trying to crack jokes with the cops. Im killing. Kinda.
We arrive at the jail and they run some more tests on me. More balancing acts and counting while I have my foot pointed toward the 5h moon of Jupitar or whatever. Take another breath test and blow the samething.
Then it happens. They read me "The right to be silent" thing. The cops leave and the jailer comes in and gives me my jail clothes. Yellow shirt, pants, and sandels. And this is were my mood changes.
The dude puts on rubber gloves and tells me I gotta strip down to make sure I didnt have any drugs or whatever on me. I'm thinking im going to end up in prison because there is no way I'm letting dude use his rubber hands on me. He was about to get bloody. But I lucked out. He didnt need to do a "search".
By this time it's 2 in the morning. My bail is $660. I have no money on me. Both my wallet and cell phone are in my car. so i have no phone numbers to call. No one knows Im in jail. For all I know, these Miles City jailers could make me vanish if they wanted to.
So I decide to try to get some sleep. I'll deal with it when I wake up.
Lets talk about my cellmates. I have to share a cell with two skinheads from Tennessee. One of which has a faded tattoo of a tear drop by his eye. Naturally.
Just when I think jail couldn't get anymore stressful, dude wakes up in the cell next to us. He walks out of cell to go take a shower. Dude has no shirt on, looks like Charles Manson, and has two broken arms. Naturally.
I roll over and go to sleep and a couple of hours later I wake up hearing my cellmate say out loud "Yeah...that a girl" not realizing he's talking in his sleep. This is were I about shit myself.
About 6 a.m. a jailer comes in to give us our breakfast. I ask him what my update was and he didnt know what I was talking about. But he would go check and get back to me. Three hours later he comes back. Its time I get to go make a phone call.
To get out I need to pay my bail in full. The local bondsman won't work with me because I'm out of state, I can't have someone use a credit card over the phone because the jail doesn't, and I'm quoting, "have that technology yet". So the only way I can get out is if someone wires me the money western union, or I spend 10 days in jail.
Luckly the jailer was cool and let me make more than one phone call. I couldn't remember anyones number off the top of my head so it took me a couple of times to get through to everyone's voice mail.
The jailer left the first message on my mothers voice mail.
"Hi, this is officer so & so down at the Miles City police department. Please give us a call asap. It has to do with your son."
Now in Mother language that means, "YOUR SON IS DEAD."
I had to call back right away. Left a message let her know I was in jail.
So now I have to go back to my cell and wait. Hoping that someone will get the voice mail messages.
Finally about noonish, I get news that my mother is wiring the money and the jailer has to run to the store and go get it because we are in Hazzard County. So now its just a waiting game. And what I mean by that is I was laying in my bunk waiting and staring at the steel toilet and thinking to myself, there is no fucking way. Then they served us chili. they might as well gave me exlax.
I tried to get the whole bathroom thing off my mind. So I looked at the wall and admired the wall graffiti. It was beautiful. I read two things that will stick with me for some time.
My wall read "Allin is a fag spick" & "Don't fuck with my coffee!"
I was released around 3 in the afternoon. It was then that I found out that my skinhead roomies only had a month or so left of jail, then they were moving onto 5 years in prison.
I didnt ask what for.
This night I was glad to be white!
There's a little more to this story, but I think you get the picture. Besides, I gotta go call the judge and see if I have to go back to Miles City for court.
Peace out bitches!
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