Feelings of being Handcuffed ?

Feelings of being Handcuffed? Handcuffed ever? To read, not to try!

Funny questions and funnier answers, just for laugh. LoL!

Q1, What does it feel like to be handcuffed?

A1:
I had a more laughable experience. In elementary, usually grades 1-3, we visit the police station for a show and tell kind of event. They put cuffs on us, let us in the drunk tank cells as they were apart from main holding. Well 8 year old me had large hands for my size and on the loosest setting couldn’t get my hands free from the cuffs as they would tell us to fold our thumb in and cuffs fall off. So they had to go find the key to those much older cuffs in storage. So I was thinking I’d been arrested for about 25 minutes while they hunted around for them.

A2:
Me, was as actually handcuffed many years ago in a really authentic game of War in summer camp when I was taken prisoner.
It felt really weird, and I kept worrying I’d trip and fall flat on my face. I felt really helpless, and vulnerable. It’s one thing to accept you are helpless, but it’s another thing to realize you are completely at someone’s mercy.
Handcuffs really make it clear you are not in charge. Even though I knew it was a game, I got the sensation I was really in a bit of danger.
I was led around and there was no escape.

A3:
It hurts! Well it did for me at least… I was being very cooperative, non violent, etc.… But my problem is that I have very tiny wrists (I can put my thumb and pinky finger around my wrist and they touch!). And I’m also talking about being handcuffed by police, so those cuffs are heavy too! I wasn’t in them too long, but yea it hurt and was super uncomfortable. The female cop that cuffed me even apologized for how tight they were, she said she had never had to put them so tight, as she had never seen someone with wrists as tiny as mine! It sucks, more so when you get motion sickness/claustrophobia and are cuffed that tightly in the back of a cruiser. Don’t do anything that could even remotely get you handcuffed by the police, it’s not a fun experience at all! Now, those pink fuzzy cuffs, whole another story, lol 🙂

A4:
The answer depends on a number of factors…first, who is handcuffing you and why? If you and your S.O. are a little kinky and she handcuffs you as part of foreplay, that is both fun and arousing. If the police are arresting you and handcuffing you, that is neither fun nor arousing.
In both instances, there is some physical discomfort. How much depends on the type of handcuffs used and how tightly they are applied to your wrists. Rigid cuffs hurt more than hinged or chain-connected cuffs, and they restrict your mobility more. Applied tightly, cuffs can cut off circulation and cut or bruise your wrists. In the foreplay situation, I have found the discomfort to be worth it. The arrest situation just sucks all the way around, and the discomfort, unless severe, is the least of your worries.
If your hands are cuffed behind your back, it is hard to maintain your balance, especially if you are being firmly led around. You feel helpless and very vulnerable in that situation. You can’t use your hands much at all, and the feeling of powerlessness can be overwhelming.
Also, you can sometimes talk your girlfriend into taking the cuffs off after a while. This is more difficult if a police officer has arrested you. Your girlfriend is also more likely to make the process worth submitting to, while the police are likely carting you off to jail for the evening or weekend, charging you criminally, and jeopardizing your freedom for longer than that…
So, the answer is…it depends.

A5:
When I was training to be a police officer, part of the self defence /personal safety training is learning to apply handcuffs safely. (We have annual refreshers in this too). To do this we practice on each other. In the UK we use rigid cuffs.
The construction of these is a swinging single bar and a rigid double bar. They are applied by pushing the single bar against the wrist. The single bar swings round and a ratchet locks it in place between the double bar.
We learn two methods of applying these to the front in a stack position, and to the rear in what we call the palms out position. This is done in both standing and ground positions.
Right here’s what you asked – what’s it like to be handcuffed?
It’s bloody uncomfortable! The edges of the cuffs are square not beveled so they dig in – even when they are loose. The front stack is fairly comfy but to the rear isn’t pleasant particularly if you aren’t very flexible like me. I’m also a bit claustrophobic so the feeling of being trapped is quite distressing but the more you struggle the more they hurt. After a few hours of practice my wrists were raw!
Chain link cuffs provide a degree of independent movement between the hands so aren’t as uncomfortable. The rigid have the advantage that you can apply them one handed whilst controlling the subject with the other.

Feelings of being Handcuffed ? Prefer not to experience !

A6:
I won’t get into details, but when you get handcuffed you feel all your freedom instantly sucked away. I didn’t resist, didn’t argue, didn’t make any rude comments or gestures, just kept calm and answered questions in a non-threatening manner.
I remember thinking of all the movies, books, and stories in the media of minorities being detained for no reason and thought I was going to end up being another statistic.
Fortunately, I was let go after 20 minutes, but unless I am going down fighting for a good cause, I never want to experience that again.

A7:
I honestly don’t know how to answer this, usually I can go on and on but I just heard this question now in this documentary (into the abyss — a tale of death, a tale of life) I’m watching, right now. It isn’t all garden and roses.
I remember being in a lot pain, in the ground, already and my entire body etc., is trying to combat that pain. Everything inside of me was focused on that. The physical pressure of the handcuffs just added to the pain.
Sometimes you can’t describe the indescribable.

A8:
If my partner is the one handcuffing me it feels like I’m helpless with no control and she becomes my Superior and aggressor.

A9:
I was cuffed when I was moved from Albany to PERTH, my wrists were too big to take regular cuffs so they put me in plastic ties but on one hand they could not get the tie tight enough so I could get my hand do not click is a little uncomfortable but bearable for 6 hours.

A10:
Truly demoralizing.
I had gone on a trip throughout the state of Texas trying to find a place to kill myself.
I had time to re-evaluate my priorities over my 24 hour trip, and got home to find my wife and daughter gone.
A sharp three knock on my door at 8 in the morning found me face to face with a cop.
I was given time to get dressed and was placed in handcuffs and taken to Green Oaks for a lovely three day stay.
It was horrible.

A11:
I hope to never find out but I can imagine tight and a clicking sound and a bolshy police man or women “WERE PUTING THESE ON YA FOR YOUR SAFREY CHAMPION”.

A12:
Yes so imagine putting your hands behind your tight pants right and you try to get your hands out you can feel the discomfort and it would be difficult pulling it out that’s what been handcuffed is like.

A13:
Amazing.
Honestly once those cuffs go on and they’ve attached you to the bed so you can’t move is exhilarating.
Just make sure they don’t start tickling you because you are at their mercy.

Feelings of Being Handcuffed? All reasonable questions.

Q2, What does it feel like to be handcuffed?

A14:
It’s not pleasant. My first experience was at 18. They had made a new law in Fort Lauderdale no drinking within two blocks of the beach. My buddies and I were right on the edge leaning against the car drinking a beer. Two cops walk up then four then 6. We were arrested , they used flex cuffs on us so tight it cut the circulation off on my hands. You thought we just robbed a bank. Had to sit through the paperwork then placed in a van and off to jail. At the jail stuffed in a holding cell waiting to be mugged and printed . My hands by that time were numb and hurting. Finally they got to me and cut them off. No feeling below the wrist. Stuffed we in a cell with 30 others. After an hour my bail was made and I was free. This was a good experience, I knew what it was like to have my freedom taken. Later on becoming a police officer it made me do my job better. It’s a big responsibility to be able to restrict someone’s freedom. When you do it, you must be 100% sure your doing the right thing. I recommend shock incarceration for all new recruits.

A15:
Well for sure it’s not the nicest feeling in the world, it’s rather humiliating and uncomfortable. Obviously once the handcuffs go on you loose your freedom. And it depends on where and when you get arrested. Also the procedure wasn’t nice either. When the cops chased me they shouted at me pointed a taser and instructed me to get down onto the ground.
Had to then put my hands behind my back and laid there until the officer approached and then cuffed me. And once cuffed of course people where looking as to what’s wrong, what’s going on with very concerned faces. And next put into back of cop car and took to the local county jail. And that was it. More or less.

A16:
It’s unnerving, at first, like many things are, where you don’t really know what’s going to happen next.
Yes, it can be quite embarrassing… being arrested, can. I wasn’t handcuffed, because they picked me up at the ER after a motorcycle accident… and suffice it to say… I was NOT feeling my oats, with my dominant arm in a sling due to a separated shoulder, a concussion, and enough pain up and down my body that even my HAIR hurt.
In my case… I was beyond astonished, and a tad outraged by it… because I don’t commit crimes… and finding out that there was a burglary warrant out in my name… boy… I’ll tell you… I was absolutely BESIDE MYSELF.
I was 23… and had never even sat in the back seat of a cop car before… and you know… I’d never entered a court room, either… and the only jail I’d ever been in, was an old one that was no longer in use as a jail, and was more like a museum. I had never met a judge…
So yeah… it was more than just unsettling… and a bit scary, to be quite candid about it.
On the other hand… I was not mistreated in any way. I was not man-handled at all.
But it was scary… the only thing I knew about booking, was that it would be done… and while it wasn’t ‘quite’ like you see on TV… it was close enough. I felt pretty darn cold, too, in the holding cell, during the wait for that process.
It took time… but everything worked out… the reason my name was on that warrant, was related to my ID being stolen in California, and someone using my identifying information as their own when they were booked on an unrelated crime. They then committed the burglary, and their prints were found on scene… so when their prints popped up, MY name was attached to them, which led to the warrant being issued… and then me being shocked when the cops who responded to my accident, told me I was wanted. LOL !
It all got cleared up… and my criminal record is still clean… but it took time and just short of 90 days worth of disruption to my life to get there… and now… I’ve got an interesting story to share, that few people get to experience.

Feelings of being Handcuffed ? More than just be humiliated.

A17:
It’s humiliating. Having the handcuffs locked on you behind the back is uncomfortable. There is not much room to move in the back of the police car. I am heavyset and had to sit sideways with my feet on the seat. I rode that way for about 30 minutes to the county jail.

A18:
Humiliating and not a pleasant at all. Especially if others are around. And the cuffs are extremely uncomfortable and can be painful.

A19:
It isn’t the best of times. I have arrested over a thousand people and no one danced and laughed about being handcuffed and placed into the back seat of a police car or van. Once I did transport a couple in a borrowed US Customs helicopter and they were grateful for the ride. It was their first time in any aircraft and they really dug the experience.
For most people it sucks. It means people probably saw them get arrested and they were embarrassed. Unless they are gang members or career criminals. Your uncomfortable and deprived of the freedom to move about and be with the ones you love. You get sat down in a room at the jail waiting to be processed and make a phone call to your lawyer or family member. You either are released on your own recognizance (OR), cited or bailed or locked up until court. Your name becomes public information and your family suffers the shame of seeing your name in the news.
I was placed in handcuffs on several occasions in my early career working undercover just to provide cover, albeit briefly, for the confidential informants. On one occasion I was arrested when an sheriff lieutenant’s wife saw me in their agency parking lot around 9:00PM. I was a bit unsavory looking at the time. She thought I was breaking into a car. That wasn’t the case. She ran to two deputies fueling their unit and gave them that story. Next thing I knew I was doing the felonious pronious (ordered to lay face down) on the wet pavement. They patted me down and found that I had two concealed handguns. I told them I was working undercover and my ID was in my wallet. They didn’t find the ID right away so I was cuffed and driven downstairs to their sally port and brought into the jail.
When they went through my wallet they discovered my law enforcement ID and then a shit storm of phone calls were made to verify who I was and to find one of their deputies who knew me. They wanted to dust me off and send me along with no-harm no-foul handshake.
All worked out. No foul. The lieutenant had to talk to his wife and remind her to get her facts correct when making allegations. The incident was kept pretty quiet for a while. Now it is a great old story.

Feelings of being Handcuffed ? The last thing one wants to try !

A20:
Only times I’ve been handcuffed and ““Arrested” was when I was undercover and it was to protect my undercover status…
And even then, it wasn’t pleasant…even knowing the cuffs would come off at the station and I would be free!

A21:
It can be scary but it could also be boring. Personally the first time I was scared shitless the second time it was whatever and I was more agitated rather than scared.

A22:
First few times embarrassing, humiliated and shameful. After a while feels like the cost of doing business

A23:
Depends on the circumstances. Sometimes if it’s a rather scary situation and your adrenaline is rushing so hard you don’t really realize the gravity of the situation until you’re showering in the jail.
Other times you know you messed up and start thinking about how the next few days/weeks/months/years could be depending what you’ve done and how long you’re going to be in jail for.
When I’ve been arrested in the past I usually knew whether or not I’d be detained for a long period of time or not. Depending what you’re doing you’ll just get put in handcuffs then released, other times you just know they can’t let you leave.
I will say though there have been times where it was actually a happy experience for me. When I’d been using methamphetamine and staying up for weeks. Living a very fast paced lifestyle, going nonstop, it does get very tiring. Many times while you’re doing it you are aware you’ll be in jail shortly, and you’re just waiting for it to happen. When it finally does you can sigh with relief because you know you’ll be able to sleep and relax for just a few days at least.

A24:
I have no idea, as I’ve never been handcuffed and arrested. Also, I’m not in LE, so I’ve not seen but one person handcuffed and arrested…this was a person who had violated me.

A25:
It is very similar to being waterboarded. The only difference is that your wrists hurt instead of your lungs.

Feelings of Being Handcuffed? Things get little bit weird.

Q3, More Q&A related to being handcuffed and arrested.

A26:
Q: How long can you be handcuffed behind the back for before the arm position causes injury?
I was arrested during the violent crackdown on protests in Des Moines, IA during the Black Lives Matter protests. I was zip-tied with my hands behind my back. From the point I was originally arrested, until I was processed and transported to jail was, best I could tell, three hours. My shoulder was killing me when I got to the jail, then I was shackled for another four hours, but that was with the cuffs in front. Then they put me in the jail uniform and that was when I was released from shackles.
My shoulder hurt for about a week after my release from jail, but best I could tell there was no permanent damage.

A27:
Q: Can I ask police not to be handcuffed when arrested?
You can ask, but don’t expect your request to be honored. Here’s the problem; even bad guys can be nice and cooperative.
I’ve been looking for a link (can’t find it), but a few years ago, the police chief of a small town was killed by a drunk friend he arrested and didn’t handcuff.
It’s for everyone’s safety.

A28:
Q: What is it like to be arrested and put in the back of a police car?
The first time, I was 16 years old and I was scared. I was picked up on shoplifting. Now… I wasn’t scared of the cop or going to jail. I was scared of my mom!
My mom worked for the Sheriffs Office and did fingerprints. When I realized the Deputy that arrested me was taking me home, I begged him to take me to jail. Reason why…. my mom was a whole 4′11″ of pure, mean badassery! She’d beat the unholy fuck out of me for shoplifting and I knew it. So for the ten minute ride, I begged like a dog for that deputy to take me to jail and all he did was laugh.
We got to the house, he walked me to the door and uncuffed me, then told me to go get my mom. I shook like a leaf as I did so. Woke mom up, she worked the night shift, she comes to the door. The deputy tells her what was up, and she thanked him. THEN, she SMILED at me, the Deputy grinned and told me to have a nice day.
I will NEVER for as long as I live, forget that beating. Oh holy fuck that woman was RELENTLESS! I got beat because a Deputy had to wake her up. I got beat because I stole. I got beat because I wasn’t in school. I got beat because I was the oldest of 3 kids and I was suppose to set the example. I got beat because I embarrassed my mom for her job working for the Sheriffs Office. Let me tell you, I cried like a baby.
You know what? I never, EVER stole again. I was a seriously defiant teenager but I never stole again.
The only other time I was arrested was for a DUI. Much later. I’d rolled my truck on a back road in Montana and misjudged my turn. The truck rolled slowly into a ditch after sliding on an icy surface. There was nothing wrong with the truck, a 2000 Ford Ranger. Just a a bit of a dent. I spent the night in jail, released the next day after arraignment. 6 months probation and some classes, $400 fine. I never drove drunk again.

A29:
Q: Have you ever been handcuffed by the police? How would you describe that moment?
I have, twice.
One of them was in a classroom. I was in criminology 101 and asked my teacher- an active beat cop with Louisville Metro PD- if he’d ever had somebody escape handcuffs, or how they dealt with somebody who was hypermobile, or something like that.
He wanted to illustrate how difficult it was to get out of handcuffs when somebody was cuffed behind their back, having only a basic understanding (if that) of hypermobility. So he handcuffed a couple of people, me and a tall skinny guy, to demonstrate how hard it was to get out of them without the key.
Tall skinny guy could not get out of them to save his life. Me on the other hand, I am hypermobile (Thanks, EDS) and surprised everybody when I popped my shoulder out and brought the handcuffs to my front before twisting my hand and wrist and compacting it and slipping the cuff off easily…then the other one!
The other time was legit. I was driving home from an appointment, I think, and got pulled over. I was asked to step out of the car and immediately cuffed and slammed against the car. Rookie cop was so rough during his cuffing and pat down that he dislocated my shoulder completely and my ankle made a loud cracking sound. Serves him right that he got a little scared. Veteran cop took one look at me and uncuffed me quickly, allowing me to fix my joints before (slowly, and with verbalization of every step) reaching into the car to my backpack to get my wallet so I could show them my identification. Veteran cop recognized me after a few minutes, he was a friend of my grandfather’s (and apparently my grandparents found out from him before I could tell them).
Turns out there was a warrant out for a girl who was at one of the protests and had assaulted a cop or something. I was driving the same car as her and looked very similar. I had gone to a grand total of zero protests and even offered to call my husband who could verify that the night in question I was at home.
I had nothing but time, and rookie cop had handled it absolutely horridly. Veteran cop even told me point blank he wouldn’t blame me if I wanted to file an excessive force complaint on his partner. I took a note of both officers’ names and badge numbers, as well as what car they were in (this particular department had been using dashcams for a while at that point) before I went straight to the station to lodge a complaint. Rookie was out of line and used beyond reasonable force considering the fact that I was 100% cooperative and not aggressive at all.
So yeah, that’s the two times I’ve been cuffed by the cops.

A30:
Q: How do I handle being handcuffed by the police?
My advice is, if you are handcuffed, go along with it… do not fight it. You will not win on the street

A31:
Q: Do prison inmates feel a sense of embarrassment when wearing shackles in public, and how often does it happen?
I’m going to answer this from experience. I stole a car last year and the cops ended up arresting me a few hours away from the town that I live in. I was taken to a juvenile holding center and stayed the night there. The next day I was being transported back to the town I live-in. I was handcuffed in the front, shackled, and had a chain on my waist that connected my cuffs to my shackles. (They acted like I was a murderer, using all the chains). I was 16 at the time and I didn’t give a damn about anything, while they were transporting me and my friend back to where we live. I asked to stop and use the bathroom so they pulled over and let me out of the van. I thought that were going to “unchain” me, that didn’t happen. Me and the officer walked inside the store and walked to the bathroom. I thought I was the top dawg I felt cool being chained and shit. But the customers and cashier were scared of me they all moved to the other side of the store, not the cashier but everyone else did. I felt a little ashamed after that I actually made people frightened seeing me chained and stuff. I almost died from being ashamed when I saw my mom and she saw me chained up. That was the worst day of my life, not only was I going to juvy but the way my mom had just seen me and the look on her face. I wasn’t embarrassed just really ashamed that I put her through that.

A32:
Q: Have you ever been arrested, and what went through your mind when you were handcuffed?
Several years ago, before I got my crap together, I got arrested for a dui. I was 21, living on my own for the first time, and thought I was super cool, driving us all home from the bar. The bar was literally a mile from my apartment, and I was turning into the parking lot when I saw the lights behind me. I knew I was going to get arrested, and told the people I was with I was going to get arrested.
So the cops pulls me out, asks how much I drank, breath-alyzed me, all the good stuff. After the first breathalyzer, he kinda looked at me, then back at the machine, and said “we’re gonna take a few minutes and do it again. It’s showing a really high reading.” (It was definitely not showing too high a reading.) I blew again, same number. He then told me how I was going to jail, he was gonna put me in the car and such. I was actually kind of shocked when he actually put handcuffs on me. I wasn’t violent, or loud, or obnoxious, I was just really drunk, and now I was tired. But he did, and sat me in the car. He stayed outside talking to my passengers for a bit, so I was in a dark cop car, by myself, and I started thinking “what’s my little brother going to think about this? He’s going to be so disappointed.” Up until that point, I hadn’t cried. I just felt numb, and sort of resigned to my fate. But when I realized that my family would find out, specifically my brother, I lost it.
Please don’t drink and drive. It’s stupid, and selfish, and dangerous, and really really expensive.

Feelings of Being Handcuffed? More than just a handcuff.

A33:
Q: Can I ask an officer to arrest and handcuff me just to see how it feels like?
The 1st amendment allows you to ask whatever you want to ask. I would say that if you want to experience what it’s like to be in handcuffs there may be better options out there. I’ll give you a few of those options that may work.
Sign up for the citizen’s Police academy at your local police department. You will get to experience being handcuffed among other really fun things, like driving a police car, being Tased, shooting and learning about crimes scenes and general Police Work.
You could buy a set of handcuffs and try them on yourself. This choice may also come with some additional benefits or games that you can play with your significant other. I’ve heard there may be some fun things to try.
Many cities have Police museums or give tours of police departments or jails. You could probably have an opportunity to be handcuffed in these tours.
Another option, this one I really, really don’t recommend is that you could commit a crime and be arrested. Then, you will get the “true experience”.
The problem with just asking a Police Officer to handcuff you to see how it feels is that there is liability in everything a cop does now days. If he handcuffs you and you turn around and fall on your face, or you dislocated your shoulder, the department would be liable for your medical bills and that police Officer will probably lose their job.
On a side note, please people, DO NOT tell your kids if they continue to act up you will have the police come and arrest them. Don’t ask a cop to handcuff your kid and put them in a police car to “scare” them into being good. People hate cops enough, kids hate cops enough, we do not need to perpetuate the idea that cops are only around to punish or scare people. Let’s instead teach that cops come to help people.

A34:
Q: What does it feel like to be arrested?
Years ago I got pulled over because I was speeding and swerving a bit. I had been drinking and was fiddling with my IPod, leading to less than stellar driving. (I am not proud of this. No one needs to tell me how bad I am). I started shaking when the lights lit up behind me and didn’t stop for the rest of the night. He questioned me, and I told a half-assed mixture of truth and lies (I was extremely scared). I truthfully told him I had a drinking problem and was trying to get to the only place in the area that was still selling alcohol at that hour of night (11 pm on a week night). Then he asked me how many drinks I had had, and I said, “Two!,” not realizing that was the standard answer. I went through all the roadside tests, doing poorly I imagine, and coming up with extremely terrible excuses for such. I remember him rolling his eyes a bit when he got the cuffs out.
I was extremely frightened, shocked and horrified, and spent the rest of the evening crying. But I was exceedingly polite out of habit and was treated well. Sitting handcuffed to a bench in the small station, it was even kind of interesting in a way, though I was still distraught. I looked around at all the papers they had up on the walls, some of which were clearly humorous in nature, and watched as the officer did something with a very antiquated computer program. I contemplated pointing out that I could pretty easily slip my relatively loose cuff, and that they should tighten it, but wisely squelched this idea (I suppose I’d win points for honesty, but I’d still look like a moron. Even more so than I did before).

Feelings of being Handcuffed ? A long long story!

A35:

I even talked to him and only other officer who was there a little bit. I don’t remember what I asked to elicit this response, but he pointed out that lots of people got DUIs, even judges and officers, and that I “didn’t look like a criminal, so that should help” me in court (that’s verbatim. FWIW, I’m a short, heavyset white female in her 30’s). The other officer queried, “So I understand you said you have a drinking problem. Have you tried getting help?” I replied, “There’s no use” and continued crying.
When they finished processing me, they called a cab to take me home (my car had been towed. I would have to call a taxi to go retrieve it in the morning before work). I talked to the driver a little bit on the way; he said he made similar excursions all the time (although more often on weekends I’d bet). I tried to get him to let me out in a shopping complex a ways down the street from where I lived, so that I could walk home alone in the dark feeling sorry for myself. He refused, perhaps wisely (this area is not pedestrian friendly). I finally got home at just past 1 am.
So, how did it feel?
Profoundly terrifying. Deeply shocking. I was shaken to my very core (5 years later, I am crying just writing this). By the time I arrived home, I was wide, wide awake, and the entire event had started assuming that feeling of unreality that tends to accompany truly bad things. “Was that real? Did that happen? That couldn’t have been real. That couldn’t have just happened to me. There’s no way. I was hallucinating. Or dreaming. Or something. No. No. No.” For a week solid I could not even think about drinking. I flinched away from alcohol like it was a hot stovetop (lamentably I eventually got over that). One of the single worst experiences of my life – not from an events standpoint or even a consequences standpoint (although the subsequent court visits were very nearly as shocking, and I was left financially devastated), but on an emotional level.

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