Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work?

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, it’s called turning yourself in, and people do it because they feel guilty, or they know they’re going to be caught anyways, and are hoping cooperation earns them a lesser sentence.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’ve committed a crime, you can always turn yourself in. If you really felt like it, you could even make them come out to you to pick you up.

  A “citizen’s arrest” usually requires the suspect commit a crime (usually a felony,) in your presence and requires a certain amount of timeliness. (Ie you can’t later decide to arrest them.)

  Basically, you’d only be allowed to detain them until cops arrived, and to be totally honest, is not something you really should be doing- just let the perps go. It’s safer for you, and there’s legal risks if you fucked up and what they didn’t wasn’t a crime or wasn’t a serious enough crime.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, a person can decide to hand themselves over to the police.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True.

    But I mean less like a surrender, more like they call the law on themself and then handcuff themself…

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, why?

      At most I could see the value of lovking yourself in a room for protection as waking up from a psycotic episode where you have attacked others and fear for your own life.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean ðis sounds like someone calling in ðeir own mental healþ crisis, which is risky considering how shit ð police are at actually handling ðose properly, but it does happen.

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Surrender? Citizen arrest mean one citizen arrest another to turn them to police, to arrest oneself is to surrender i guess.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, I suppose.

    But more like crazy person level, like call the cops on themself for stealing a candy bar or something similarly stupid, then handcuff themself to a bench or light pole or something…

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    • Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Technically speaking it’s still umm citizen arrest but in general I think it still count as surrender. Different term for different situation i guess.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It happened in Blazing Saddles

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn you LMFAO!

    I haven’t seen that movie in ages!

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s time! I watch about ice a tear it’s so fucking hilarious. But damn they drop that word like none other

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• spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of my old bosses once went to the police station when he was drunk or high (or both) to complain about something crazy, and maybe about a crazy person trying to drive his car that he was actually driving. I think they talked him into spending the night while they checked it out. He had issues.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Hey man, yagottahelpme…hic…there’s a crazy guy, good guy, smart guys, who’s really really drunk, and he’s trying to drive his car…my car…a car…he’s trying to drive, and that’s a bad idea. He can barely walk, and I just really gotta pee …He’s gotta pee so bad! And he’s wearing a red shirt, and has a kissable face. This guy FUUUUUCKS, but right now shouldn’t drive…”

    “Yeah. Hey, let’s get you nice and situated on this here bench, inside this cell. Don’t worry. You and your red shirt will be perfectly fine…”

    “Zzzzzzzz…Zzzzzzzz…Zzzzzzz”

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    • spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly, this is probably almost exactly how it went down

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The specific rules vary by state. Where do you live, what are you going to do, and can you stream it for us?

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you citizens arrested yourself then the criminal would also be holding the arrester hostage.

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• key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good old autoerotic bondage.

  …Affix-iation?

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