Spending the Night in Jail

[samoht04]

Do the Sims who have the klepto trait ever get arrested, or do they have to be in the criminal career for that to happen?

Well I think they have to be in Criminal career, my sims didn't get arrested for stealing the Alto's Car and then driving past their house everyday on the way to work! 

[Swede1992]

If the sim who owns the thing you're stealing with the klepto sim sees you, they will throw you out of the house. However, I have never seen them calling the police over it.

[catlover]

Thanks for the response "Sam" and "Swede" ! I'm toying with the idea to switch careers just to change things up a bit, I always play the goody two shoes Sims with good traits and all, but now I am bored and it's time to let my Sims get a taste of life on the other side of the tracks, lol.

[sydney511]

I'm goody two shoes simmer too. Can you see the sims in jail? Can you post a picture of it?

[Pam]

No, you don't get to see them in jail.  You just have a message in the upper left corner that they're in jail and you get to chose what they do while they're locked up, like work out or talk to the other criminals.

[John Allen]

Ok, after playing quite a few Emeperor of Evil and MasterThief sims (aside from the ones I make I have managed to pick quite a few NPC wives who were either evil or Kleptomaniancs), I have seen enough to come up with a conclusion:

-  Yes, I agree, arrests are random.  originally I thought it was on nights I wasn't 100% rested; but it definitely is random.

-  Yesterday I did finally get to see my Sim getting arrested, maybe because of Ambitions?
He was at work and I just happened to click view my sim on him, instead of another sim, the camera panned over right as there was a police cruiser outside of his work (talk about lucky coincidence).  My Sim ran out of the building, to the cop, and got into the squad car. Off to jail for a night of dominos!!!

[AriaGirl77]

I don't know if this has been mentioned previously, but there is one way to get out of jail early.  If your sim's wife goes into labor while he is in jail then he will rush to the hospital to be with her.   

[LivvieLove]

I don't know if this has been mentioned previously, but there is one way to get out of jail early.  If your sim's wife goes into labor while he is in jail then he will rush to the hospital to be with her.   

Hahahaha! I don't know why really, but I found that very funny! That's hilarious actually, "Why should we let you out of jail early Dr. Evil? Do you think you've done enough time?"
"NO! MY WIFE JUST WENT INTO LABOR!"
"Quick get the keys to the cell!"

[MasterSiwel]

Okay, I finally decided to run a sim down the criminal track. The night she would have been promoted to Master Thief, that idiot Hank Goddard arrested her as she entered the warehouse. Not only didn't she get promoted, but the game counted it as a missing work, so she now has TWO more nights to get to the top.

Just when I thought I had seen everything the game could throw at me....

So does anyone know of a way to avoid being arrested? traits, LTW, anything?

Dave

Sadly there is only one way... With science of course! Nah, there's really no way to avoid getting caught (at least not to my knowladge).

[chihuahua0]

Hahahaha! I don't know why really, but I found that very funny! That's hilarious actually, "Why should we let you out of jail early Dr. Evil? Do you think you've done enough time?"
"NO! MY WIFE JUST WENT INTO LABOR!"
"Quick get the keys to the cell!"

Sorry for the necro, but this is very funny!

[Leto85]

If the sim who owns the thing you're stealing with the klepto sim sees you, they will throw you out of the house. However, I have never seen them calling the police over it.

Unless your sim has the 'inappropriate but in a good way' LTH reward, right?

[Chsharpe]

I don't know if anyone has said this yet but if you make your sims leave work early when you see a police officer you won't get arrested and then you send them back to work when the police are gone.

[RubyLovesSims]

I don't know if anyone has said this yet but if you make your sims leave work early when you see a police officer you won't get arrested and then you send them back to work when the police are gone.

But wouldn't that decrease the performance bar?

[malteser60]

But wouldn't that decrease the performance bar?

It would decrease the performance bar, but I guess doing that will depend on how close you are to promotion and will spending the night in jail be a huge disruption.

[folcon]

Just to point out, I think a higher Athletic skill reduces the chances of your sims getting arrested.