The crime Matthew McConaughey committed is pretty normal, but how the police officers who arrested him found him is both embarrassing and hilarious.
On the night of October 25, 1999, his neighbors called the police at 3 am complaining about loud music coming from his house. As the officers got near his property they must have smelled the marijuana he was smoking and decided to barge in and arrest him.
Once they barged in they found Matthew, who was already famous at the time, completely naked, and high as a kite while playing the bongos.
Matthew, who described that night as a “jam session”, explained how the arrest went down, in his memoir entitled Greenlights:
What I didn’t know was that while I was banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen also thought it was time to barge into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the floor.
Matthew refused to cover his McConaughey’s, and soon he was resisting arrest in the middle of the road with 6 police cars parked in front of his house, and all his neighbors outside their houses looking at what must have been an alright, alright, alright sight to see.
While in jail he started doing sing-alongs with the other cellmates and the charges for marijuana possession and resisting arrest were later dropped and he simply paid a $50 fine.
Of course, this story became the talk of the town and everyone was laughing about it, including the media that couldn’t get enough of the weirdness of it all. Austin residents even honored him in a funny way to remember the occasion:
Two days later, BONGO NAKED T-shirts were all over Austin.
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