A brush with the law

I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken to count was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather discurbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of the arrest and my subsequent fate in court.
It happened in February abount twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and not due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the time.