Did you know you can get arrested for
eating SpaghettiOs? Let's talk about that. ♪ (theme music) ♪ - Good Mythical Morning!
- You might be surprised to know... ...that in all the years that we've known
each other, and all the stupid things that we've done on this show and off, I'm proud
to say we have never been arrested. Nope. I guess we've just had a very long,
lucky streak, Rhett. - Yes.
- But listen. If you are int-er-est-ed... ...in getting ar-rest-ed, take notes.
Because today we are going to chronicle some of the weirdest
arrests ever. It's time for... - ♪ (driving drums) ♪
- ...You Have the Right to Remain... ...Silent. Anything You Say Can and will
Be Used against You on... Good Mythical Morning.
That's this show. It is this show. And last month,
in Portland, Maine, a tree was arrested for obstructing traffic. This is the most
exciting thing to ever happen in... - ...Portland, Maine.
- Well, I've never been there. I can imagine that not a lot of exciting
things happen there. - But the tree.
- Not a tree, exactly. It was actually... ...a man dressed as a tree. It was
30-year-old Asher Woodworth. Right off the bat, this is a man who understands
the worth of wood. So he's on my team. You know what happens if you
burn a tree? It turns into ash. Yeah. Yep. That's true. That's another
thing. There's a lot of wood jokes that we could make, but we should
probably just move right along. Nope. Eddie literally said, "Uh!" like
I took his breath away. - Like you had stabbed yourself.
- Thanks for the support, Edward! He said he "planted" himself -- ha ha --
in the middle of an intersection. (frantically stammering) See, 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 people adjusted their natural
choreography by just driving around him and calling the police. And his natural
choreography was impacted when the police showed up and made him put on
the handcuffs. And we've got the video. Look at this. Here he is being escorted
away from the intersection. (Link laughing) Oh my gosh! He is just
an absolute tree! (Rhett) I love how he's just continuing to
do the tree thing. - (Rhett) Look how slow he's going!
- (Link laughing) (Rhett) "I'm a tree. I can't move
too quickly." (Link) And the cops -- it's like they're
helping a disoriented person. I'm thinking about bringing back tree man
and doing this in an LA intersection, but something tells me that the LAPD
will not take nearly as kindly to me as they did -- as the Maine police did --
to this guy. Neither will drivers of vehicles here
in Los Angeles. - Right. They will run you over.
- So do not do that. Speaking of trees, back in 2005,
43-year-old Dieter Braun from... - ...Recklinghausen, Germany...
- Mhm. ...was arrested for being a
public nuisance. Oh, okay. Well, not too weird, right? Unless the public nuisance
is running around naked, shouting at trees. - Oh, that happens sometimes.
- Why, Dieter? Why? 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 yelling part? All of it! He said, "If I didn't go to the
woods and scream at the trees, then my marriage would probably
be over." - Oh!
- Which is weird, because if I DID get... ...naked and go into the trees and scream,
my marriage would be over. - Yeah, right. That's how it works here.
- I think. He says, "Feeling the... ...breeze on my naked skin really
calms me down." Well, you can do that just in your
backyard. It did not have a calming effect on
anyone else. Especially the trees. - Yeah, I could imagine.
- I would think. - My kindred spirits out there.
- Don't disturb the trees with your... - ...naked yelling.
- Dieter, don't go up to those... Redwoods, the Rhettwoods, that we're
planting in northern California. I don't wanna see your naked tail around
my Rhettwoods. - (laughing)
- Back in 2014, 23-year-old Ashley Huff... ...of Georgia was arrested for SpaghettiOs!
Let me explain. - Please explain.
- She was a passenger in a car that got... ...pulled over. One thing leads to another.
The police find a spoon in Ashley's bag that is covered with a mysterious
residue. She says... (southern accent) "It's SpaghettiOs!"
And then they were like, "That seems like the worst lie ever."
Some adult woman saying that it's SpaghettiOs. So they immediately
arrest her for possession of... - ...methamphetamines.
- Okay. And then there are lab results that
test the spoon. Now, first of all, she goes to jail. While she's in jail,
they do a test in the lab. And they determine that there were methamphetamines
on the spoon, even though it actually was just SpaghettiOs. But I think what
happened was the person in the lab was like, "Hold on. What kind of adult
eats SpaghettiOs and then throws their spoon into the bag? A meth head.
This has got to be somebody who's on meth." I think that's probably
what happened. - But they... but there WAS meth.
- There wasn't meth. The lab "came back" with positive
results. It turns out these lab results can be false positives all
the time. - Okay.
- And she was later cleared. After spending over a month in jail,
she was cleared and it was just SpaghettiOs. And now, since this, the number-one
defense in Georgia criminal trials has become (southern accent)
"It was just SpaghettiOs." - "It was just SpaghettiOs."
- Everybody's using it. Everybody's getting off!
- Uh, are they? - Yeah. Because of SpaghettiOs.
- (crew offscreen laughing) Speaking of SpaghettiOs, there's only
one reason you should never visit a cemetery. And I meant to say
"ever" visit a cemetery. - But I said "never." Just ignore that.
- I know what you meant. I'll just start over. Speaking of
SpaghettiOs, there's really only one reason you should ever visit a cemetery.
It has nothing to do with SpaghettiOs. That was one of those "I'm trying to
make a transition, but it doesn't work." - Right.
- But some people will be like... - ..."I guess that makes sense."
- It was because of the SpaghettiOs! - Yeah, right.
- That reason shouldn't get you arrested. (Link) 24-year-old Anthony Stallard of
Portsmouth in the UK was arrested at the Kingston Cemetery where he was
impersonating a ghost. - (laughing)
- Literally throwing up his arms... ...and yelling "Woo-oo-oo!" at mourners! - While people were there at a funeral?
- He was "Woo-oo-oo"-ing people... - ...in the cemetery.
- Did he even look like the... ...dead person? Did he know who
it was that was dead? Because that would be freaky.
"Uncle Johnny is over there." No. I'm sure he was doing it
very tastefully, too. - Okay.
- He did a tasteful "Woo"-ing at... ...the cemetery. Prior to that, Anthony
was seeing kicking a football at graves -- this dude's 24 years old -- while singing
loudly with his friends. Okay, nothing wrong with that.
I mean, that's fine. As you may have guessed, Anthony had been
doing a bit of drinking before the debacle. - I'm guessing Ecto-Cooler. "Woooo!"
- (laughing) Okay. - Get it?
- It has been known to induce those... - ...kinds of effects.
- I ain't afraid of no pasty white dude. Kicking a soccer ball. Against graves. - (crew offscreen laughing)
- You know that song? - I ain't afraid of no pasty white dude.
- I get it, yeah. - Kicking a soccer ball.
- Because you're like Ray Parker, Jr. ... - ...my favorite artist.
- Mhm hm. But the layer downplayed it. He said, "He has accepted that his
behavior, if it had been outside of a cemetery, would not have been
inappropriate. But inside a cemetery, while people are grieving for their
loved ones, it might be." (laughing) "It MIGHT be!
It MIGHT be!" - "It just might be. "Woo-oo-oo!"
- If you push it too far, it might be. Eighty-nine-year-old Edna Jester 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 football right
outside of her house. - Ohhh!
- And every so often, a football would... ...land in Edna's yard and she'd have to
fetch it for 'em. And Edna hated this. She was quoted as saying
(higher voice) "I'm 89 years old... ...and I want a little peace of mind.
This is my life here in this chair, looking out that door. And all I see is
playing the ball down all over and all over. If it doesn't come in my yard,
okay. But if it comes in my yard, - I'm going to get it. No trespassing."
- "Playin' the ball down?" There was a few run-on sentences in that,
but we understand. You don't like the ball in your yard. So one day in 2008 when the
ball landed in her yard, Edna makes good on her threat. She snatches the ball
up. She brings it inside. And then the owner of the football tells his parents.
And then the parents call the frickin' police. They don't even go to
talk to Edna. - Well, she's scary.
- This is an old lady! Have you seen The Sandlot?
There's probably a dog. You know what? She doesn't respond
well to negotiations, because the police actually issued two warnings to
Edna, but she refused to turn the... - ...ball over. It did not help, though...
- (growling) ...that the cops issued the warnings
via football over the fence. - (laughing)
- That was was in poor taste. - That's not speaking her language?
- She said, "I'm not giving the ball... ...up. No. That's the only protection
I have. They know if it comes in my yard, I'll get it, and that keeps them off of
me a little." This is a tough woman. - This woman's got grit.
- She now has all the... ...policemen's balls? - She has all the policemen's balls.
- (Link and crew offscreen laughing) That's what Edna's known for now.
Nope. That's not true. - Yeah. She didn't give 'em back?
- She did not give the ball back... ...to the boy. The policemen didn't throw
their balls over the fence because... - That was a joke.
- ...I made that up. But they did arrest her. And she went
to prison, and she died there. - Also a joke. (laughing)
- (laughing) And a funny one! Boy, old women dying in prison!
Doesn't get better than that! The charges were dropped. The charges
were dropped against Edna, but she promptly sued the teenager's parents for
emotional distress. You know what you should have tried?
You should have tried "I ain't... ...afraid of no pasty white lady
with my football." I should have done that.
I'll do that next time. - But I don't have another one.
- Speaking of weird hostage situations... in Leavenworth, Kansas, 2013, 26-year-old
Bryan P. Smith -- good ol' Bryan P. --.. - (Rhett) Yeah, I know him.
- ...agreed to babysit his friend's... ...pet spider. Which really is the true
test of a friendship. - (laughing) Yeah.
- You know? If you're willing to... ..keep their spider. Problem was when his
friend came back to get the spider, Bryan invoked the legal precedent of
"no backsies." - He kept the spider.
- He did not want to give the spider... ...back. And listen. It escalated from
there. He said, "If you want your spider back, you gotta pay me $100."
He held the spider for ransom! - (laughing) This is not cool, Bryan P.!
- Hundred dollars, I mean... - Not cool, man!
- Sixty dollars'll getcha a good spider. The friend refused to pay. Bryan then
threatened to kill his spider by shooting it. (laughing) "I'm gon' shoot your
spider, man! 'Cause that's what it's gonna take to
kill this spider!" - Not step on it. Shoot it.
- "A bullet." So his friend calls the cops. The cops go
to the friend's house, but Bryan calls him while the cops are there, and he says,
"Are you ready to do this thing?" - (laughing)
- Which, okay, is good enough for the... ...cops to just arrest him
at that moment. - What thing was he gonna do?
- Uh... - Shoot the spider, I guess.
- Shoot the spider? Okay. (laughing) Or make the trade for the $100.
I don't know. He was ordered to serve 14 months. Plot twist: the spider was
in on it the whole time. Mm. The spider didn't like
Bryan P. either, huh? (laughing) I don't know what the spider
got out of the situation, but he was... - ...definitely in on it the whole time.
- Hopefully you can avoid getting... ...arrested now that you have learned
how some people got arrested in stupid ways. That's what we're doing. We're doing
our part. Thank you for liking, commenting,
and subscribing. - You know what time it is.
- Hi. My name is Nathaniel. We're 10,000 feet on Haleakalā. And it's
time to spin The Wheel of Mythicality. If you get arrested, it's cold in jail.
You should wear a Good Mythical Hoodie! - Rhettandlink.com/store.
- Strategic advertising in jail. - (laughing) Yes it is.
- Click through to Good Mythical More... ...where crew members are going to share
their run-ins with the law. Ooh! - (Rhett) "Shout out to laughing gas."
- (both laughing hysterically) - Shout out to you, laughing gas!
- (laughing) - I didn't see that comin'!
- You've brought so much joy! (both laughing) - You're so silent but deadly like a fart!
- Hoooo! But you're not deadly.
You just make me laugh. You can do anything. You can do anything
to me right now and I wouldn't mind. (both laughing) Pull your ear? - (stops laughing) Nope. Don't do that.
- Sorry. [Captioned by Kevin:
GMM Captioning Team]
