# Have you ever been handcuffed by law enforcement personnel? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164 "2014-06-19T19:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/41 "2016-02-23T19:36:53Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Oh, I was guilty too. I was guilty, and so was Officer Cindy. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/42 "2016-02-23T19:39:12Z")
Yes, I have been handcuffed by law enforcement personnel. The chief of police in a nearby jurisdiction. He and some of his officers trained with us in judo and jujitsu, and he demonstrated handcuffing techniques and needed an _uke_. Some of the techniques involved are rather painful, even apart from the jointlock/restraint hold and takedown that precedes it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/43 "2016-02-23T19:44:14Z")
Yes. It was unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/44 "2016-02-23T20:07:44Z")
Yes, but only for training purposes (while in the USN, TAD to the ship’s Master at Arms force). ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/45 "2016-02-23T20:38:43Z")
As a teenager, I joined a civil disobedience action, and insisted on being arrested as part of it. I refused to give my age until I was arraigned. Police **really** don’t like that, it turns out. In retrospect, it wasn’t the best-considered political action in history. However, as an act of teenage impulsivity, it wasn’t too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/46 "2016-02-23T20:41:06Z")
I know this is old but I missed it the last time. I’ve had them on but only during training. > [@Trinopus](#): > > Y’know something? Handcuffs hurt. Never gonna get me to use them as sex toys. For certain people that is the point. Allegedly. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/47 "2016-02-24T00:08:09Z")
I was put in hand cuffs for the inexcusably offensive crime of…failing to show proof of valid insurance. That’s right. “But!” I hear you say, “why did you get pulled over?”. Well, the exact words out of the cop’s mouth were “you were driving too perfectly”. Yup. Btw, I DID have valid insurance, I just didn’t have the current card on me. And due to DMV fuckup, it looked like a 2nd offense. SOOOOOO, for driving too perfectly, I got hauled downtown and spent the night in jail. Car was impounded for a MONTH before my court date. What happened on my court date? The prosecutor didn’t even show up. Case dismissed. Right? Wrong! Case was continued for aNOTHER 2 weeks. Then finally got a $50 fine after proving I had valid insurance. Plus $400 court costs. Plus $3000 impound charges. All for driving too perfectly. I left Ohio for good a month later. ---
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/48 "2016-02-24T00:59:43Z")
No, but I have been treated with suspicion by security and law enforcement people. Also followed by a police car once. That was pretty spooky. I would imagine that handcuffs would be horrible. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/49 "2016-02-24T01:50:34Z")
A few times; I just have one of those faces LEO like to slap cuffs on. Once I was riding in a group with several people who turned out to be wanted for one thing or another - we all got matching bracelets until the checks on us came back. Another after an incident in a bar; I wasn’t involved but I was there and it was a risky situation for the cops to straighten out. Another time driving through a neighborhood at night that old white people just aren’t supposed to visit. I didn’t like it but I understood. One I related in other threads was a few years back when I decided to shave everything and portray a Delaware for a historic event. The neighbors saw me entering my house the next day and called the cops about a possible break-in. Cops arrived, didn’t buy my ID since all that has hair and a full beard, and cuffed me on my own couch until they could verify. I guess I could have been pissed off about it but personally I found it funny as Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/50 "2016-02-24T02:24:11Z")
I’m another person who’s been handcuffed in law enforcement training. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/51 "2016-02-24T02:51:25Z")
Yes… The Sixties were a turbulent time ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/52 "2016-02-24T02:53:51Z")
yep once, with two sets of bracelets and a set of thumb cuffs cause I was such a skinny lad at 18 that they couldn’t make the cuffs tight enough to keep me from being able to work my hands out (did lose a little skin too, but not much)⭕D:cool: ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/53 "2016-02-24T03:09:45Z")
As I related [once before here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17002066&postcount=10), I was once cuffed and almost arrested for walking funny. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/54 "2016-02-24T05:18:36Z")
Nope. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/55 "2016-02-24T06:45:39Z")
Never, which surprises even me. Hmmm… only 6 women have participated so far. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/56 "2016-02-24T13:18:55Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > A few times; I just have one of those faces LEO like to slap cuffs on. They are doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/57 "2016-02-24T16:06:44Z")
What about brothels whose gimmick is uniforms? Would that count? Just curious, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/58 "2016-02-24T16:30:18Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > They are doing it wrong. We need a smilie for \ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lbnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@lbnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lbnd)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/59 "2016-03-02T22:53:12Z")
> [@PaulParkhead](#): > > Yes. And to be fair to the arresting officer, he was quite careful not to hurt me with them. > > In fact, when I was sitting in the police station/barracks/whatever they’re called in Pennsylvania they attached one of the cuffs to a bar on the wall, and I realised that I could actually remove my hand from the other cuff. I decided that drawing attention to this would be a bad idea, so I put my tiny hand and wrist back in the cuff and sat there meekly. But I could have absconded through the nearby door before, presumably, being stopped at gunpoint and facing another couple of charges. That’s a wise plan, and they would not want to be made aware of any mistake – since they don’t take that well. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164/60 "2016-03-03T12:29:43Z")
Yes, I’ve been handcuffed. And I was on crutches at the time with my foot in a cast. I asked the cop if he really thought I would try to make a break for it, and he laughed and said that it was regulations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-handcuffed-by-law-enforcement-personnel/691164.md?page=4)