Did a bit under 6 months for strong-armed robbery in my youth... was young dumb and drunk, saw two others flashing around some cash, gave em a whoppin' and pocketed the money. Ended up getting ID'd hours later with police cruising around the neighborhood. Quite frankly, it put me on the right course, on release I was house arrest for another 6 months + weekly check-ins... got addicted to EverQuest during that time and it kept me off the street and away from a lot of bad influences around.
I did end up arrested again a few years later for putting my step father through a glass coffee table when he smacked my mother in front of me. Was given 3 years suspended sentence and mandatory anger management classes. The classes helped a lot and techniques I learned there I continue to use today, but I'll still go into a blind rage if someone laid hands on my wife or children.
Ultimately, don't recommend it kids. Keep your nose clean, stay out of jail. It's boring, depressing, and you're locked up with far more fucked up individuals... nearly got stabbed for winning a few games of crazy 8s in a row during rec time, they ended up putting that dude into isolation for the rest of my time there.
Damn bro... and I didn't even get to write up a good character ref for you for the judge lmao!
GG here kept things good for me when after 9 years and living a totally different life with a kid in spain, a booming SEO business and a rock star lifestyle - I went to Alicante airport one day to get a one day flight to the Republic of Ireland (I couldn't fly into northern ireland as it's uk where my warrent was).. longest flight I ever took, interpol flagged me up on the Alicante airport system. Now I had been to Dubai just over a week before and I flew countless times per month, my crime was 9 years previous when I was like 21 years old or so. What happened was "Brexit" - the UK sent out international arrest warrents for every single thing in the book - I'll give you some better scope.. what I was caught with those 9 years before was £200 street value, a class C drug too that you can get from a doctor to help you sleep FFS
But good on GG, even had phone calls with my gf at the time and would check in often, kept any threads on BHW running smoothly and liased with Cormac now and then (another seo partner of mine)... AND wrote me a glowing character review for the judge lol
The judge they put me in front of when interpol took me from spain to N.Ireland (UK) - the very exact judge from 9 years before that gave me bail never to see me again until that day, a bad red mark against his name for almost a decade, did he give me bail again like everyone thought (because they didn't think it would be him) I'd get... DID HE FUCK LOL.. No he knew it was one week until courts in N.Ireland stop for summer, he also sent the case to the crown court knowing they wouldn't sit until September so I'd spend all summer (this was around april at the time) waiting on remand until crown court opened.
Jail is easy, especially if you have "freinds".. I had people looking for me in the jail back home that got told to find me and look out for me, they sent those messages from Spain. The hard part is missing people and if you have a gf it's even worse, a lot of guys just end up splitting up for their own mental health.
When it got to crown court in September the judge says "this isn't serious enough it shouldn't be up here, it should be in the magistrates" and I'm sitting thinking YES I know but I'm fucking glad it isn't as that was the judge I bounced on for 9 years, then he looks sharply over at the police "I know you are busy, but looking at everything in front of me here this was a young man 9 years ago who clearly isn't living that life now, so why are you wasting my courts time on top of the resources and money spent to aprehend him 9 years later".
He took 10 minutes to himself and came back, he said to me "do you wish to go back to Spain" (cops wanted to try keep me in n.ireland.. my life was spain then so didn't make sense).. to which I said yes your honour. Ok, 3 months suspended for 6.. go back to Spain and keep on the track you've been on, don't let this knock you off, see it as a blessing that it's finally behind you."
Actually the only judge I ever thought was a good dude... but yeah I could write a few movies the life I've had.
Oh yeah I think I may have still even been a MOD on bhw at the time, I was 100% still exec with all my sales threads opened - GG and bz made sure it was all kept under wraps and if it did come up they'd sort it.