[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by johnco

when I was in high school there was an 11pm curfew for under 18yrs old in the town between my house and the neighboring town. we're talking 5 miles to that town than across the bridge to the next one. coming home one night we had to pass thru the curfew town to get home and got pulled over. cop checked licenses and truck papers and then looked at his watch... he then arrested me and my friend for being out after curfew and brought us to jail handcuffed. it was 11:15. had to go to court where the judge threatened to send us to reform school, having criminal records, etc.. there was only one road running east/west across south louisiana at that time so there was no way to get home without driving the 1/2 mile thru that town's city limits.. if the cop had not stopped us, we would have not broken the law and have been safe at home before curfew. that night was the first and last entry on my extensive juvenile criminal record. just like I was in a scene from Alices's Restaurant

Ours was just a curfew violation, they called your parents. In extreme cases they took kids to the police station and made their parents pick them up. Maybe if it happened enough it was a big deal. They never caught me, so I don't know.