drabley Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I have some upcoming community service hours (32) as part of my brush with the law a few months back. Court is Feb 16, but I have the opportunity to get my community service, classes, etc out of the way first. Will help me out in that I'm taking a proactive approach, so hopefully I'll get dropped down to a lesser charge. I was looking through the list of approved community service locations; the typical gamut of soup kitchens, outreach centers and the like, and one location jumped off of the page at me: http://www.thegreenproject.org/ I am a pretty frequent customer of the Green Project and was super stoked to see them on the list. I am fully behind their cause and am actually excited about my community service! I may even continue to volunteer my time with them if it is half as enjoyable as I envision it being. Who else has paid a debt to society? Was yours as cool as mine is looking to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Me and my friend had to go work at some church for community service, basically just cleaning shit up. It was super easy and we really didnt even end up doing much. We'd go sit next door at the Taco Bell and eat and hang out for a while. The lady in charge never knew we left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygreatdevastator Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I did 60 hours community service at a local Salvation Army. I got a shitload of awesome 15 year old clothes that summer. AKA every local town/city baseball shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I've had to do it for school and a brush with the law. I've volunteered in hospitals and worked a food pantry, which I did/do anyway, so it never phased me that I had to do community service, which is exactly why it baffles me when my brat high school seniors bitch about having to do 15 hours in order to graduate. Fuckin' man up and give something back, you jackasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 my college's motto was 'educate to serve' and we had a big school wide event every fall called 'into the streets' where all the groups on campus would go out into the immediate community and do things like rake leaves for elderly people, volunteer at soup kitchens, etc. we also had classes that had a community service requirement. even my genetics class had one; and it had to be genetics related. i'd like to see you find some community service that has to do with the field of genetics. that being said, i enjoy volunteering at my local humane society, though i haven't been there lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I did community service to get the Bright Futures scholarship in Florida. I think I needed 60 hours, but I ended getting a ton because I got the initial 60 volunteering at a hospital over the summer when I was 14, which was boring as shit since they don't give 14 year olds much responsibility at a hospital. I later ended up 'volunteering' in an office at school during one of my class periods instead of taking a class, which was awesome. Aside from running the occasional errand, my duties mostly consisted of decorating the office for whatever holiday was coming up, chatting it up with the two old lady secretaries, and hearing stories of dumb shit kids do from the nurse and school resource officer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankmurphy Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 I did something like 125 hours of community service when I was 14. I had to clean some nasty shit. Dead dogs, condoms, needles. Once we found a safety deposit box that had been dropped after a robbery and we all got $25 gift certificates from the guy who had been robbed, and one time we spent the entire day looking for a pregnant pit bull. The last time I did community sevice they made me rake leaves in the woods, and I pooped in the leaf pile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 i've never done community service for probation or anything. but i have volunteered for various organizations such as the food bank and for several years me and my friends made food bags (sandwich, chips, banana, etc etc) on random weekends and handed them out to the homeless people downtown for the fuck of it. this year i volunteered for the charity run (to help children) and helped pick up trash. i dont see how anyone bitches about volunteering. it's not that bad. even as a kid my dad would make me help the elderly people in the neighborhood by cleaning their yards after he'd cut them and edge them for free. you'd be surprised on how many people won't do anything for free, even if it's to help someone out by helping move a dresser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 I did 4 hours at an outreach center for 5 points of extra credit in my COMM class. Shit ruled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 I just want to hear about this brush with the law Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 I just want to hear about this brush with the law It was more like a crash with the law. I was driving home and an off duty cop ran a stop sign and totaled my car. Long story short; he didn't even get a ticket and got a nice comfortable ride home. I got handcuffs and a ride to jail (where I spent 24 hours). My lady was taken away by ambulance and spent the night in the hospital. HE HIT ME!! And now I have to do all of this other bullshit on top of it; classes, AA, community service, fines, FUCK! Every time I see a cop I want to puke. Thrown under the bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 How'd the AA get involved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmythescumbag Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 How'd the AA get involved? He probably had a beer or two a few hours before the crash and that was enough for them to assume he was "under the influence"...hence AA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 How'd the AA get involved? He probably had a beer or two a few hours before the crash and that was enough for them to assume he was "under the influence"...hence AA. Precisely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djones0930 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 He probably had a beer or two a few hours before the crash and that was enough for them to assume he was "under the influence"...hence AA. Precisely. Jesus Christ that's ridiculous! But, think about this, you KNOW there's some awful karma heading to that shitty cop, right? That dude's dick is gonna fall off. As for community service, I haven't been caught doing anything unlawful (I once did make it from a cop when he saw me drive 105 mph in my '91 honda civic...loooonngg story, but fucking CRAZY). And to Mike (controlthebleeding), that's pretty rad of you and your friends to hand out the food bags. The only thing I feel good about is pulling up to a corner where there is a homeless person and handing them $5 or $10. I don't care where the money goes to, and it bothers me when people say, "They just spend the money on booze" -- who the fuck cares, I'd drink too if I were homeless and possibly heavily depressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hankmurphy Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Similar situation happened to my good friend where the other driver was killed. My friend was aqcuitted of vehicular homicide yesterday. http://republicanherald.com/news/tremont-man-acquitted-of-homicide-by-vehicle-charges-1.1075127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well, considering you're not old enough to do anything but spend your parents money and possibly wet the bed, I'll take this with a grain of salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well, considering you're not old enough to do anything but spend your parents money and possibly wet the bed, I'll take this with a grain of salt. i still wish i was spending my parents money.. hell i wish i still had my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkfoster8 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I just want to hear about this brush with the law It was more like a crash with the law. I was driving home and an off duty cop ran a stop sign and totaled my car. Long story short; he didn't even get a ticket and got a nice comfortable ride home. I got handcuffs and a ride to jail (where I spent 24 hours). My lady was taken away by ambulance and spent the night in the hospital. HE HIT ME!! And now I have to do all of this other bullshit on top of it; classes, AA, community service, fines, FUCK! Every time I see a cop I want to puke. Thrown under the bus. Assuming this happened in Louisiana, I've heard the law is pretty fucked up down there. On a train ride to Arizona I had a guy tell me how corrupt the law is down there and how they actually have in's with drug dealers and what not. I can't believe he got away with that though. I've seen cops bust cops for stuff like that in MD and ESPECIALLY VA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest errolwest Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 ...and the nomination for most edgy poster of the year goes too...! goddamnt this is annoying. STOP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicole Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well, considering you're not old enough to do anything but spend your parents money and possibly wet the bed, I'll take this with a grain of salt. If only that was true. Seriously though, you're lucky those were your only consequences. It could have been much worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest errolwest Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Seriously though, you're lucky those were your only consequences. It could have been much worse. this is some of the worst logic ever. things can ALWAYS be worse. what happened can hardly be described as favourable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well, considering you're not old enough to do anything but spend your parents money and possibly wet the bed, I'll take this with a grain of salt. If only that was true. Seriously though, you're lucky those were your only consequences. It could have been much worse. so....let me get this straight. he's lucky that even though he wasn't the one at fault in the accident, he's the one getting unfairly charged with all that crap? logic, how does it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmythescumbag Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 She must be using boolean algebra for her logicz...yeah, that's it. logic fuckin' magnets, how does it do they work? Fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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