when i was 21 or 22 i was drinking at a bar near a college a girl i was seeing at the time went to, real frat boy kinda place but they had cheap beer and karaoke on wednesdays and i do love to watch people make asses out of themselves. anyway a friend of mine had ordered a beer at apparently the same time somebody else had ordered the same beer (im assuming it was a pbr, ya know a real original drink and easily confused for something else) so the dude nails my buddy in the face and we ended up getting into a fight in the middle of the bar over a beer. cops come and of course everybody is pointing at us because why the hell not right? the cops ask us to step outside to talk because they cant hear our side of the story over the bar noise, first thing they do is motion us across the street and cuff us for being drunk in public. spent the night in a holding cell and was slapped with some fines and community service which i called up my highschool art teacher (the teacher who had told me i should drop out and get my ged) and she signed off on the community service hours for me.
at the time i thought i had a pretty good case of the cops basically coaching us into a situation that would give them probable cause to arrest us, but im sure we are all aware of how the justice system actually works.