Oh yeah, here's an alright one
Way back in spring 2009 (or 2008), massive protests broke out in South Korea. It started originally because the wildly unpopular president prioritised pandering to the US more than his own people. Shit boiled over when he allowed the import of US beef, previously banned due to mad cow scares. The focus slowly shifted over to the president (he really is a shitbag), and also onto the police, who were accused of brutality. It was also the holiday of a massive pro-democracy protest from the '80s, so a lot of people came out for that.

My wife had been going out every night she could, leaving me to worry about her. I'm not Korean so I didn't feel comfortable protesting. Anyway, I rode my scooter out a few times looking for her, once setting the record for number of laws simultaneously broken. I had a good time weaving my scooter through lines of riot police, who really didn't seem all that bad, having been comprised mostly of conscripts who'd probably have been at the protest anyway. It was great and it made every other traffic violation less fun in comparison.

Later in the protests, things were starting to get even more violent, and my wife was arrested once. She was loaded onto a bus and taken to a holding cell along with several other protesters. They all kept quiet, not wanting to leak any personal information, and they refused to show ID, so apparently the police had no right to hold them.

I've since used that tactic to get out of traffic violations. I don't have insurance, and I refuse to show ID, so the cops just let me go.
(racetraitor has an alibi for, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 13:01, Reply)