Have you ever seen a citizens arrest

I don't imagine a citizen arrest has any legal backing. Not even most security guards have the authority to arrest people. I had a friend in security and asked about what a guard can do and he said, "They have the same rights as a citizen" meaning they can call ACTUAL law enforcement but that is about it.

My neighbor use to steal cars and break into barns and take everyones shit and he was caught by this old country boy on his farm and the guy beat his ass and ziptied him in a hogtied position. It was on the news and his police report is public.

never heard of it. also lol

Awe. I kind of feel sorry for her. I still would have walked away though.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think this lady was absolutely and utterly full of shit. For one, I doubt that riding a motorized bike (that only goes 15 mph) on a sidewalk would actually be an offense that would result in an arrest.

It could likely result in a ticket, but it probably would not be an arrest. That most likely would be simply a violation, which if a cop noticed you doing it, could detain you to give you a ticket. But I think that would simply be a violation, which wouldn't even be an arrestable offense anyways.

Also, citizen's arrest generally applies to felonies and breach of the peace (e.g. someone committing an assualt or something of the sort) from what I've heard. For instance, if you (or a hypothetical person) were to assault or rob someone and were stopped in the act by bystanders, then the citizen's arrest would be valid. The other common scenario that's a citizen's arrest (though often not thought of as such) is when security guards detain a shoplifter before the police arrive.

These sorts of citizen's arrest/good Samaritan laws wouldn't come into play for some petty thing like riding a bike on the sidewalk though, not in the US at least. The fundamental purpose of these laws is to make it legally possible for bystanders to intervene if someone is actually in danger or for shopkeepers to have the right to protect their property from thievery, not to give citizen's the power to hassle people as this lady was doing.

You wouldn't get arrested for a driving infraction anyway. Hhaha. Just a ticket, which she can't do either.

She may be old but she had her reasons. You sound like an entitled white ass.

I think that's more of an American thing... Never heard of anyone doing a citizen's arrest in Europe. Although, I have seen crazy old people threatening to call the police over nothing.

One time I was driving my mom to her phone company to pay bills and stuff. There were no free spaces to park, except one in front of a large driveway, where two cardboard boxes were placed. I kicked the boxes out of the way and parked there. 30 seconds later a crazy old lady comes and starts putting more boxes around my car, telling me this was her space and the police was on it's way as I was trespassing.

My mom asked what was going on and started apologizing for some reason. I told her to get in the car, kicked the boxes out of the way again and drove home. No police came, even tho she said she had my license plates written down...

Yea had one done to me when I was about 15

sounds like a great wayta git shot

Lol!