Most Bizarre Arrests of All-Time

Did you know that you can be arrested for eating SpaghettiOs? Let's talk about that. ♪ (musical theme) ♪ - Good morning mythical! - You might be surprised to know... ...that in all the years we've known each other, and all the stupid things we've done on this show and off of it, I'm proud to say we've never been arrested. No. I guess we just had a really long streak of luck, Rhett. - Yes. - But listen. If you're interested... ...in getting arrested, take notes. Because today we're going to chronicle some of the strangest

arrests

in history. It's

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to... - ♪ (drumming) ♪ - ...You have the right to remain... ...silent.

Everything you say can and will be used against you in... Good morning mythical. That's this show. It's this show. And last month, in Portland, Maine, a tree was arrested for obstructing traffic. This is the

most

exciting thing that has ever happened in... - ...Portland, Maine. - Well, I've never been there. I imagine not many interesting things happen there. - But the tree. - It's not exactly a tree. In reality it was... ...a man dressed as a tree. It was Asher Woodworth, 30 years old. From the beginning, this is a man who understands the value of wood. So he's on my team.

Do you know what happens if you burn a tree? It turns into ash. Yes. Yes. That's true. That's another thing. There are plenty of wood jokes we could make, but we should probably move on. No. Eddie literally said, "Uh!" as if he had left her breathless. - As if you had stabbed yourself. - Thanks for the support, Edward! He said he "stood" (ha ha) in the middle of an intersection. (stuttering frantically) Look, there you go! Where's the "Uh!" For that? Because he wanted to see how he could impact people's natural choreography. It turns out that people adjusted his natural choreography by simply driving around him and calling the police.

And his natural choreography was shocked when the police showed up and forced him to handcuff him. And we have the video. Watch this. Here you are escorted out of the intersection. (Link laughing) Oh my god! It's just an absolute tree! (Rhett) I love how he keeps doing the tree thing. - (Rhett) Look how slow it goes! - (Link laughing) (Rhett) "I'm a tree. I can't move too fast." (Link) And the police, it's as if they were helping a disoriented person. I'm thinking about bringing back the tree man and doing this at an intersection in Los Angeles, but something tells me the LAPD won't be as nice to me as they were, like the Maine police were, to this guy.

Neither will vehicle drivers here in Los Angeles. - Good. They will run over you. - Then don't do that. Speaking of trees, in 2005, Dieter Braun, 43, from... - ...Recklinghausen, Germany... - Mhm. ...was arrested for being a public nuisance. Ah OK. Well, it's not too strange, is it? Unless the public nuisance is running naked, yelling at trees. - Oh, that happens some

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s. - Why, Dieter? Because? Dieter? - Uh... - Do you have a "why?" Here's the "why." His marriage counselor advised him to do it as... -... "relaxation therapy." - The naked part or the screaming part? All of it!

He said: "If I didn't go into the woods and scream at the trees, then my marriage would probably be over." - Oh! - Which is weird, because if I stripped naked... ...and climbed trees and screamed, my marriage would be over. - Yes of course. That's how it works here. - Believe. He says, "Feeling the... ...breeze on my bare skin really calms me down." Well, you can do it just in your backyard. It didn't have a calming effect on anyone else. Especially the trees. - Yes, I imagine so. - I would think. - My kindred spirits out there. - Don't bother the trees with your... - ...naked screams. - Dieter, don't go near those...

Redwoods, the Rhettwoods, that we are planting in northern California. I don't want to see your naked tail around my Rhettwoods. - (laughs) - In 2014, 23-year-old Ashley Huff... ...from Georgia, was arrested for SpaghettiOs. Let me explain. - Please explain. -She was a passenger in a car that was... ...stopped. One thing leads to another. The police find a spoon in Ashley's purse that is covered in a mysterious residue. She says... (Southern accent) "It's SpaghettiOs!" And then they said, "That seems like the worst lie ever." An adult woman saying they are SpaghettiOs. Then they immediately arrest her for possession of... - ...methamphetamines. - Well.

And then there are the lab results testing the spoon. Now, first of all, she's going to jail. While she is in jail, they give her a test in the laboratory. And they determine that there was meth in the spoon, even though it was actually just SpaghettiOs. But I think what happened was the person in the lab said, "Wait. What kind of adult eats SpaghettiOs and then throws the spoon in the bag? A meth addict. It has to be someone who does meth." I think that's probably what happened. - But they... but THERE WAS methamphetamine. - There was no methamphetamine.

The lab "came back" with positive results. It turns out that these lab results can be false positives all the time. - Well. -And then she was acquitted. After spending more than a month in prison, she was acquitted and it was only SpaghettiOs. And now, since then, the number one defense in Georgia criminal trials has become (with a southern accent) "It was just SpaghettiOs." - "They were just SpaghettiOs." - Everyone is using it. Everyone leaves! - They are? - Yes. By SpaghettiOs. - (offscreen crew laughing) Speaking of SpaghettiOs, there's only one reason you should never visit a cemetery.

And I meant "sometime" I will visit a cemetery. - But I said "never." Just ignore that. - I know what you meant. I'll start again. Speaking of SpaghettiOs, there's really only one reason you should visit a cemetery. It has nothing to do with SpaghettiOs. That was one of those "I'm trying to transition, but it's not working." - Good. - But some people will say... - ..."I guess that makes sense." - It was because of the SpaghettiOs! - Yes of course. - That reason shouldn't get you arrested. (Link) Anthony Stallard, 24, from Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, was arrested at Kingston Cemetery where he was posing as a ghost. - (laughing) - Literally raising your arms... ...and yelling "Woo-oo-oo!" to the mourners! - While there were people at a funeral? -He was making "woo-oo-oo" to people...-... in the cemetery. - Did he even look like the... ...dead person?

Did you know who it was that was dead? Because that would be strange. "Uncle Johnny is there." No. I'm sure he was doing it with great taste too. - Well. -He held a tasteful courtship in... ...the cemetery. Before that, Anthony was seen kicking a soccer ball at graves (this guy is 24 years old) while he sang loudly with his friends. Okay, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, that's fine. As you might have guessed, Anthony had been drinking quite a bit before the debacle. - I guess Ecto-Cooler. "Wow!" - (laughing) Okay. - Get it? - It's known to induce those... - ...types of effects. - I'm not afraid of any pale white.

Kick a soccer ball. Against graves. - (offscreen crew laughing) - Do you know that song? - I'm not afraid of any pale white. - I understand, yes. - Kick a soccer ball. - Because you're like Ray Parker, Jr... - ...my favorite artist. - Mmmm. But the cape made it less important. He said: "He has accepted that his behaviour, if it had been outside a cemetery, would not have been inappropriate. But inside a cemetery, while people mourn for their loved ones, it might be." (laughs) "COULD be! COULD be!" - "It could be. "Woo-oo-oo!" - If you take it too far, it could be.

Edna Jester, 89, of Blue Ash, Ohio, just wanted some peace and quiet. But she could never get it because the kids in her neighborhood were always playing soccer right outside her house. - Ohhh! - And every once in a while, a soccer ball... ...would fall in Edna's yard and she would have to go to it. look for her. And Edna hated this. She was quoted as saying (louder voice) "I'm 89 years old... ...and I want some peace of mind. This is my life here in this chair, looking out that door. And all I see is ball being played everywhere.

If it doesn't come to my garden, that's fine. But if it comes to my yard, I'll pick it up. No trespassing." - "Play the ball down?" There were a few back-to-back sentences on that, but we get it. You don't like the ball in your yard. So one day in 2008, when the ball landed in the patio, Edna makes good on her threat. She grabs the ball, takes it inside and then the owner of the ball tells her parents and then the parents call the damn police. Edna - Well, she's scary. major! Have you seen The Sandlot? There's probably a dog.

You know what? She doesn't respond well to negotiations, because the police actually gave her two warnings. - ...but. It didn't help... - (growling) ...that the policemen issued the warnings through the football over the fence. It was in bad taste. - Isn't that speaking their language? - She said, "I'm not going to." give up dancing... .... No. That's the only protection I have. They know that if he comes to my yard, I'll catch him, and that keeps them a little bit away from me." This is a tough woman. - This woman has courage. - Now she has all the... ...

The balls of the policemen? - She has all the policemen's balls. - (Link and the team laugh) That's what Edna knows for now. That's not true. Didn't she return them? boy. The police didn't throw her balls over the fence because... - That was a joke - ...But they arrested her. She went to prison and she died there. - That's a joke too. - And. very funny! Old women dying in prison! The charges were dropped against Edna, but she quickly sued the teenager's parents for emotional distress. You know what you should have tried "I'm not afraid of any lady." white and doughy with my soccer ball." I should have.

I'll do it next time. But I don't have another one. - Speaking of strange hostage situations... in Leavenworth, Kansas, 2013, Bryan P. Smith, 26 years old , good old Bryan P. --.. - (Rhett) Yes, I know him. -...he agreed to take care of his friend's pet spider... ....Which really is the true test of a friendship. - (laughing) Yes. - You know? If you're willing to... ...stay with his spider. The problem was that when his friend returned to look for the spider, Bryan invoked the "no ass" legal precedent. -He stayed with the spider. - I didn't want to return the spider... ....

And listen. From there it intensified. He said, "If you want your spider back, you have to pay me 100 dollars." He held the spider for ransom! - (laughing) This is not right, Bryan P.! - One hundred dollars, I mean... - Not good, man! - Sixty dollars will get you a good spider. The friend refused to pay. Bryan then threatened to kill his spider by shooting it. (laughs) "I'm going to shoot your spider, man! Because that's what it takes to kill this spider!" - Don't step on it. Shoot him. - "A bullet." Then his friend calls the police.

The police go to his friend's house, but Bryan calls him while the police are there and says, "Are you ready to do this?" - (laughing) - Which, okay, is enough for... ...the police to arrest him right then and there. - I was going to do? - Uh... - Shoot the spider, I guess. - Shoot the spider? Well. (laughs) Or make the change for the $100. I don't know. He was ordered to serve 14 months. Plot Twist: The spider was involved the whole time. Hmm. The spider didn't like Bryan P. either, huh? (laughs) I don't know what the spider got out of the situation, but he was... - ...definitely involved in this the whole time. - Hopefully you can avoid getting... ...arrested now that you know how some people were arrested stupidly.

That's what we're doing. We are doing our part. Thanks for liking, commenting and subscribing. - Do you know what time it is. - Hello. My name is Nathanael. We are at 10,000 feet in Haleakalā. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythology. If you get arrested, it's cold in jail. You should wear a good mythic hoodie! - rhettandlink.com/store. - Strategic advertising in prison. - (laughing) Yes it is. - Click on Good Mythical More... ...where crew members will share their run-ins with the law. Oh! - (Rhett) "Shout at the laughing gas." - (both laughing hysterically) - Greetings, laughing gas! - (laughing) - I didn't see that coming! - You have brought so much joy! (both laughing) - You are as silent but deadly as a fart! - Hooooo!

But you are not mortal. You just make me laugh. You can do everything. You can do anything to me right now and I wouldn't care. (both laughing) Do you pull your ear? - (stops laughing) No. Don't do that. - I'm sorry.