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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Worst Place You've Ever Spent the Night? [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)I had a lot that came to mind unfortunately and came back to this thread to say...the winner is Chicago jail!
A jail system process that is known for long waiting times after getting arrested , even if the charges will be dropped, youve already done time in a sense
Wait times are nightmarish nearly all of which is spent with many others packed into tiny cells as they move you through the process
oh and this of course would be a weekend night it happened , so extra long fun time fun folk so yes even if your charges are dropped it is just going through the process an entire night that is terrible punishment served already and I just thanked ja when seeing morning daylight and got out.
Added factor is that others are getting out from longtime prison areas of the jail in the same area you are!
This was many years ago & I can not imagine now what goes on getting arrested on a weekend in Chicago
I will say this after thought , was worse than any various sorts of infested rooms, even tiny lizard filled ones, airport sleepovers or stuck in a broke down greyhound in snow with a stuffed toilet at night , that creepy place in the tenderloin with a wolfman or something howling all night , Motel 6 in Indiana next room over a guy getting beat up at 2 am for something by other guys saying they would kill him. I woke up from the noise I heard him begging +what they were yelling and was afraid if guns went off it could go through the wall, quietly called the front desk , no one ever came wth ? and it went on for an hour or more and I kept waiting to roll off the bed if shooting started or curled up on a freezing desert floor due to being told oh yeah we didnt need any thing to spend the night , or something simple like spending a night on a small boat in big waters feeling more than seasick , which are some spent nights I thought of , mostly because of the fear and danger factor with jail, stress of being wrongly accused and I was very young