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Breaking the law as a youth
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We've all done it- bad things as a teenager, whether immoral or against the law. I know of friends who have been caught by coppers, spent time in police cells etc. Being a youth its tempting to challenge the system, do vandalism, street drugs and shoplifting with school friends etc
Pretty sure we've all got stories of brushes with the law as teenagers, however compliant with society's standards as adults
Pretty sure we've all got stories of brushes with the law as teenagers, however compliant with society's standards as adults
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Juvenile life experience :yes:
So your mate tried to get me into trouble then eh?
haha
I got into a bit of trouble when I was younger but never from shoplifting or drugs. Just stupid little things which some sad old woman kept calling the cops on us for. I don't know how many times I've been in a group of friends and we've had to run from the police.
Ah the good old days.
x Andy
Wait for the bobby knocking on your door Andy
We were involved in groups hanging about doing petty things. A few groups of teenagers can be very nasty and lawless. Don't mix with the wrong crowd -end up committed to borstal for serious offences
Yeah I'm gonna flinch everytime there's a knock at the door now. :nervous:
But yeah one mate of mine is now in prison. Luckily we went our seperate ways before I got into anything too big.
Have to say I'm almost squeaky clean nowadays. Apart from the odd bar fight now and again lol
x Andy
As for the other stuff, I just never got caught.
While I dont get involved with anything even remotely dodgy these days, I still am quick on my feet.
Haha yeah well boys will be boys.
But nothing too bad now. Haven't spoken to a policeman in a long time. Only for giving statements on other incidents.
x Andy
I deliberately broke somebody's lunchbox in primary school but I never did any of the common shoplifting, vandalism or underaged drinking.
As an adult, I illegally downloaded music off Napster in 1999 and 2000 but otherwise, I have paid for all all of my music, videos and software since I started in 1994.
Defo petty offences- armed police aren't going to smash your front door down.........sleep sound
Yeah, running to your car when a traffic warden is stalking it. The adult things like sparing yourself from a parking ticket through the post, rather than running from irate bobbies who spotted you during the good old days
As nippers we started off by terrorizing golfers by knicking their ball after they teed off, or building road blocks on the country lanes with big fuck off logs and then hiding in the bushes to see the reaction. Proper little shits.
Then as we got older we got into robbing stuff which is something I seriously regret.
Been arrested for attempted theft of a motor vehicle, shoplifting, posession of drugs, criminal damage, breach of the peace, D&D all before I was 18. When was 17 I got a caution for posession of a class A drug after being nicked going into Cremafields. When I was 20 I was convicted of violent dissorder in the Crown Court and almost went to jail, got off with a load of community service. I started to calm down after that.
However when I was 23 and working away with my mate in Plymouth we got arrested for criminal damage. Both of us got so pissed he decided to climb up the outside of the flume of the local water park - the Pavillion - and it broke causing a total of £38,000 damage and lost revenue when it was forced to close. And I set of a fire Extinguisher the same night in our hotel. We we both arrested in the hotel covered in foam. I got caution, and he had to pay back 10 grand in damages.
:eek2: I think any damage i did as a kid pales in comparison to that one.
Was on the fringe of a local yobbo bunch who used to vandalise, gob off, break into things etc. Got done at 15 for aiding and albeiting a shoplifter and got a year long conditional discharge. Not something i'll ever be proud of but as far as i'm concerned it's long forgotten. It helped me as it gave me the biggest guilt kick ever for putting my parents through the shit and it made up my mind for me that i wasn't into that shit really and was just playing follow the leader. Have never stolen or vandalised anything since.
We all look back and see we did bad things whilst young- you're not alone
That sounds like something Ive seen on TV before
My friend was drunk once and decided to throw a cone through a shop window thinking it would bounce off but it went through so we had to run. Police sirens.. it was scary! We ran to the top of a hill and watched the police cars driving r ound and stared at clouds. It was a really memorable night actually.
What do you mean 'never done anything' and then describe how your gang was involved in a broken window.
He means he's been a "hanger on". Whilst other people have been causing problems, he's been on the sidelines observing......
Come on then what laws have you broken.