18 And Life
If it wasn’t for Eric Bunn I would be as Merle Haggard would sing, “Turning 21 in prison doin life without parole”. One day my sophomore year I skipped school and stole some gas from the back of a truck. The neighbors had seen him and reported me in my incognito “staff” shirt to the police. Next thing you know I was getting cuffed and stuffed into a police car. My brain was not fully developed, I did not comprehend the consequences of my actions. I backflipped out the open police car window and made a break for it. The arresting officer who is now angered did his best Ray Lewis form tackle and planted me into to the concrete, leaving yellow paint on my arm and tire tracks on my forehead. They took me to the cop shop after that and had paramedics look at my arm and other injuries and they sent me off with my dad to the hospital to get stitches and an x-ray. I faced many possible charges. Fleeing because the officer told me to stop and I didn’t. Then resisting arrest because when he grabbed me I wrestled around a little a bit. Escaping was another charge because of my sweet move out of the window.…show more content… Eric Bunn is the Billings Juvenile Hearings Officer. His office is not very big at all, maybe like 10 x 10 feet, he was a bigger guy with light red orange hair that was really short and he kind of reminds me of Mr.Gatley. We met, and he looked over my case or what i was charged with. He said that he didn’t really agree with the “Escaping a Federal Penitentiary” charge and said how it could have been prevented if the cops would have followed protocol and closed the back window before putting me back there. Which was huge because that is a felony charge. He dismissed that charge and the fines for the cops shoes and pants for the same reason. So I only ended up with about 3 charges at the end of the
