Nick Offerman once had a wild teenage escapade that landed him behind bars and nearly got him charged with a robbery-related case.
The 53-year-oldParks and Recreationalum delightfully shared the story during an appearance onJimmy Kimmel Liveon Wednesday, April 17.
During a teenage escapade, Nick Offerman was at the wrong place at the wrong time and wound up in jail for a robbery he wasn’t involved in
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“Some friends and I, we can say this now, in California, we were smokingmarijuanaout behind a community theater late one night. And some flashlights came along the creek where we were hanging out, and we realized it was police, and so we began to tiptoe away, and they gave chase, and we wisely ran,” hetoldthe show’s host.
“They tackled us, and an incredibly tough, diminutive woman who I think may have been Holly Hunter,” he said in jest, referring to hisParadiseco-star. “I couldn’t tell because she had her boot on my head, and she had her gun on me.”
The cops tackled them in a parking lot, and the actor had a gun pointed at him during the encounter
Nick went on to say that things got “incredibly real” after he and his friends were tackled in a parking lot.
“It turned out that a restaurant had been robbed of a bunch of cash up the creek. And they naturally saw these kids running, and we spent the whole night in jail. And the thing is, we were just these innocent, dumb theatre kids, and we were saying, ‘No, we were just out there smoking and talking, officer,’” he went on to say.
After Nick and his friends put up “enough of a collective front,” the police officers let them go in the morning following an entirenight in jail.
“As the sun was coming up, we walked out, and on the front lawn of this sheriff’s station, my friend Greg, who had the one-hitter, the pot-smoking paraphernalia, we said, ‘It’s a bummer you had to throw that in the creek when they were chasing us,’” he continued.
Nick Offerman recalled having two stints with the police when he was younger during his appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live
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“He reached into his crotch and pulled it out and was like, ‘You think I’m gonna throw this thing away?’ So we smoked marijuana first thing in the morning in Urbana [Illinois] in front of the sheriff’s station, and now here I am,” Nick added.
“I hope that it helps us slowly trudge ourselves towards trying to find decency in our society,” he added. “And supporting that, and turning our backs on the forces that make us look in the other direction and can lead us to things like what happens in this movie.”Neilas Šurkus
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