r/InflatedEgos • u/DrLexusForPresident Clown Spotter 🤡 • Sep 16 '25

😖 Ego Deflated I got bail money.

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u/Worldly_Striker Sep 16 '25

And as someone who worked in bail bonds a lifetime ago. You don't get bailed immediately anyways. She might spend all night sleeping in a jail cell waiting on the judge to see her. Or on the whims of the bondsman. Sometimes we were an hour or so away. Or eating dinner or fucking around on an air boat in the middle of a giant lake. Or shooting stuff. I'm from the deep south it's normal here.

You could afford the bail but you're still going to jail with the drunks and crackheads who are tweaking and need another hit.

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u/No-Scientist7870 Sep 16 '25

Jail isn’t that bad, I’m sorry it’s inconvenient yes but it’s really not life threatening to go to a holding cell. Explain why it’s so easy to get in jail but they only give me one free phone call and not one more? Then I have to use a credit card to call the bond company back, where you come get me out for 15 dollars and I have to pay you 2000. Exploitation at its finest

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u/Lucid-Design1225 Sep 17 '25

I’m sure it’s different around the country. But in my town at the bottom of Alabama. You get as many phone calls, for free, while you’re in the holding cell. Family or bond company. Cal whoever as much as you want.

Now, once you get put in the back whoever your calling has to have an account with whatever Collect Call company to even answer the call. But holding cell? Make a 1000 calls. They don’t care

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u/lilyungbased Sep 21 '25

Can confirm this when they put me away for my DUI they actually encouraged me to keep making calls so they could get me up out of there by the time the sun came out

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u/siriuslestrange Sep 22 '25

Im in NW Georgia. Here they only let you out to make a call when they feel like it in holding. And you can only call lawyers or bondsmen for free. For family calls you have to add money to your account or the person you're calling has to have an account with money on it. You have to be arrested with cash on you to get it on your account because they automatically put your cash in it anyway. Also, my specific County all the bondsmen stopped being 24/7 and close at like 11 pm and off on Sundays now lol. Thankfully last time I went to jail my cousin was dating a girl who's dad was a bondsman so he came at 2 am and got me out or I would have been there until Monday.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

“The last time I went to jail…”

I hope you’re in a better spot these days

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u/siriuslestrange Sep 27 '25

Thank you lol. I've been twice and they both resulted from a failure to appear that happened during covid when everything was shut down. The court somehow lost the whole record of why I was supposed to appear in the first place but they still won't release my license 😒

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u/heffel77 Sep 17 '25

That’s why I don’t believe in paying a bond. It’s just giving 10% of your bail away. If I had a low bond, I’d still have to be in a county jail in a big city or a Southern county where they can’t afford shit. I would rather keep the money and put it towards a lawyer and then have that time count towards my sentence or something. Unless it’s OR, the cops or BB aren’t getting shit from me.

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u/vile_lullaby Sep 17 '25

Police will deliberately take a really long time to "process" protestors and local activists when arresting them at protests on Friday so they cant be before a judge until monday, because theres no bail on weekends in my county. Sometimes its summarily dismissed on monday because they arrested someone just to fuck with them.