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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Nick Offerman once spent a night high in jail after being mistaken for
       a robber
       
       By Lisa Respers France, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       11:25 AM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Nick Offerman’s parents may not want to read this story.
       
       During a guest appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to promote his new
       film “Civil War,” Offerman told a story from years ago he said his
       parents didn’t know.
       
       “Some friends and I, we can say this now in California, we were
       smoking marijuana out behind a community theater late one night,” he
       said. “And some flashlights came along the creek where we were
       hanging out, and we realized it was police. So we began to tiptoe away,
       and they gave chase, and we wisely ran.”
       
       According to Offerman, the police gave chase and caught up to him and
       his friends.
       
       “It turned out that a restaurant had been robbed of a bunch of cash
       up the creek,” he said. “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 theater kids, and we were saying, ‘No, we were
       just out there smoking and talking, officer.’”
       
       The police eventually believed them, he said, even though the crew
       ended up spending the night in jail.
       
       It all ended on a funny note, however.
       
       “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,’” Offerman said. “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 in front of the sheriff’s station.”
       
       The “Parks & Recreation” star got high with a little help from his
       friends.
       
       It wasn’t the only time he went to jail, he shared.
       
       Offerman said he and a friend used to shoplift as a joke and he got
       caught stuffing eight Ronnie Millsap cassettes down his pants. He ended
       up in jail then too, but was bailed out by his friend just in time to
       make it to the first play he was ever cast in.
       
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