# Any dopers convicted felons? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190 "2001-07-30T03:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/1 "2001-07-30T03:04:33Z")
Are any dopers convicted felons? What did you do? ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/2 "2001-07-30T05:25:18Z")
…never _convicted_. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/3 "2001-07-30T06:02:02Z")
Big, fat ditto on the “never _convicted_” post. Praise the Lord. No…REALLY…praise the Lord. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/4 "2001-07-30T11:33:31Z")
Another “never convicted” here. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/5 "2001-07-30T11:41:50Z")
Non-convicted felon checking in. Hey, if a person who commits a felony is a felon, what is someone who commits misdemeanors? Misdemeaned? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/6 "2001-07-30T11:50:17Z")
Misdemeanant. - that was an answer to **Badtz’s** question. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/7 "2001-07-30T15:39:07Z")
Never personally convicted any but I did arrest quite a few. Oh, you mean am _I_ a convicted felon? No. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/8 "2001-07-30T16:38:43Z")
Adding to the never convicted group. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/9 "2001-07-30T23:57:09Z")
shot a man in reno just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/10 "2001-07-31T04:12:57Z")
I shot a man for snoring too loud. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/11 "2001-07-31T04:41:00Z")
My record is sealed. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/12 "2001-07-31T17:38:19Z")
Our lips are sealed. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/13 "2001-07-31T20:11:58Z")
Well, somewhere in this fine country there’s an irritating Assistant District Attorney that refuses to drop an investigation of me even though my lawyer has shown clearly that no crime was committed. But I’m still technically the subject of a felony computer crime investigation. More than that, I cannot say. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/14 "2001-07-31T21:13:17Z")
OK, I’ll be the one to kick it off. I have read that several others, besides myself, consider themselves to be “unconvicted felons”. Being the “curious for the sake of curiosity itself” type, I naturally wondered what exactly the other dopers did to be “unconvicted felons”. While some people might not feel compelled to share their stories without someone else “taking the plunge” first, I will do exactly that. [list] [li] **I transported massive quantities of a controlled substance across international lines.** I used to run marijuana across the Canada-US border on foot. My friends would drop me off on the Canadian side of the border and I would run(walk) through a apartment complex and meet them on the other side at a gas station, after they had safely driven through customs.[/li] [li] I grew massive quantities of marijuana.[/li] [li] I transported a controlled substance(marijuana) on a commercial airline.[/li] [li] I have been in a half dozen or so bar brawls. I don’t know wheter assault is a class A felony but I assume it might be.[/li] So there, I said it. That’s three strikes for me. AFAIK, I would be on death row in some states. Yowzers. ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/15 "2001-07-31T21:49:42Z")
Wow. Other than Wishbone, I must be the biggest criminal here. I’ve been taken to court over unpaid parking fines. Well, I had no money at the time and I had more important people to pay than City Hall. Thankfully, I haven’t seen the need to use my Emergency Soap-On-A-Rope \. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/16 "2001-07-31T22:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wishbone \* > **I transported massive quantities of a controlled substance across international lines.** I used to run marijuana across the Canada-US border on foot. My friends would drop me off on the Canadian side of the border and I would run(walk) through a apartment complex and meet them on the other side at a gas station, after they had safely driven through customs. > \*\* There’s an apartment complex that is in both countries? That strikes me as somewhat odd. [apartment leasing agent] We’ll, we can get you an apartment in 18D, which gives you the walk in closet as well as government subsidized health coverage, but if you go with unit 4F then you get the washer/dryer and your “prime minister” is now known as “president”. [/apartment leasing agent] ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/17 "2001-07-31T22:35:11Z")
Two felony arrests, no convictions. Agravated assault with a deadly weapon, Burglary of a building. A number of crimes I was never arrested for, but most were not felonys. ---
**Author:** ![stoneytom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@stoneytom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoneytom)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/18 "2001-08-01T00:36:07Z")
Probably not something you would want to spread around, but I’m not ashamed. Cultivation of the evil weed. Yep, convicted. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/19 "2001-08-01T02:57:44Z")
OK [ **wishbone**. Intrastate drug transportation. Cultivation of marijuana, intent to sell. Marrying a person to make him legally able to work in the US. (This was not for money, though. I was subsequently asked to do so for financial gain & refused. Silly me, that would have been an easy 20K.) I did it for a friend. ---
**Author:** ![theendisnear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@theendisnear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theendisnear)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190/20 "2001-08-01T03:15:44Z")
Arrested for assault on a police officer, not convicted. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-convicted-felons/74190.md?page=2)