Crimes
 

So of course whether or not you want to answer this question openly is entirely up to you but have you ever committed any crimes, or gotten in trouble with the police for something you may or may not have done?

Now I personally have not been in trouble with the police, but I have broken the law, if your looking for anything juicy here then prepared to be disappointed as really I've only done tiny petty things.

So I've illegally downloaded games/music/movies off the internet (Who hasn't done that today?)

Had sex underage (The UK age of consent is 16)

And once accidentally stole a packet of sweets from a shop, I was like 5 or 6 or some young age like that, had my hands full so I put some sweets in my pocket to carry them and then accidentally left the shop forgetting to pay for them.

Sometimes when I buy a croissant and a donut at a self service machine in the supermarket, I'll tell it I bought two donuts and save myself 40p.

Hardcore.

I don't break laws, I break heads.

My first experience in dealing with police occured at the peak of my ferocious climb for power, somewhere between the ages of 3 and 4. We lived on the corner of George and Forin st, on the crest of a small rise going all the way down George and then into the water. I was prone to following the general downward slope of the street, a feature of my scottish heritage. One day, I followed it...and kept following it down the next easiest slope, Victoria st. I ended up walking about three or four blocks before some terrible skinny woman alerted the authorities of a toddler wielding a claw hammer near Victoria park. A cruiser pulled up and a black cop, who I distinctly remember as being the most obeyable thing I'd seen up to that point, stepped out and took me home. Despite the 15-30 second drive, I managed to query him on
If I could turn the siren on
If I could use his shotgun
If he had ever used his shotgun
Same as above, but on ninjas
How many ninjas had he dealt with personally
Could I use the siren quietly
Did this unofficially make me a police officer
Who is the man in the back seat
Siren, I just said it once that time, as we had arrived.

He plopped me down at home, stepped out and took a knee to explain how to be good, and also could I please sit still, and that I really worried my mom, and hey don't let that man out, and oh fine see you next time.

I might have been a little older, but the story among my family is that I was about 3 the first time I ran away.

That's great! Hah, a wee Mac asking all those cute questions!

I got caught by the police high once. They didn't care.

I went free running up the back of a building which I later found out was a bank, and had the police phoned on me thinking I was a robber.
E: I also had sex underage, the condom used was stolen.

I've never done anything too bad really. Once me and my friends were skateboarding in my school when the cops showed up and told us to fuck off.

Oh yeah, I got told to move on by the police too, they brought a police van and two cars to get six or seven teenagers to leave...obviously a slow day in the office.

Hopefully not stolen while it was in use...

"YOINK!"

I've never met a police officer.

Truly a great misdemeanour.

I've never been in trouble.

I'm boring like that.

I was pulled over and told to get new licence plates as my current ones were worn down and illegible. Exciting!

I'm not sure if I wrote this in a blog post but once I had the police round my house and they were taking names of everybody, the one police officer told my mum that he knew me, I don't know him though and frankly it's been bugging me for ages!

Me and some friends tried to grow weed in year....9 (when I was 14)

Not knowing the requirements for making it smoke-able?

I download loads of shit, but the only bad thing I ever did was take something... from a pet shop. I am now banned from that pet shop, I was 12 at the time, and I had no money. If you can guess what it was I took you can have something virtual of your choice.

The shopkeepers virginity.

A live dachshund.

No, I had bought both of those, already.

A bunch of dog sausage treats that you later discovered were labelled 'Bull Penis.'

It was actually a dog whistle, but you know what? That's close enough. Pick something virtual of your choosing!

A child's innocence so that I can barter it to some Gypsies and afford my phone bill.

Too late, looks like this child is the property of scraps123.com. It's even tattooed across his head!

Well me tried to grow it in the summer behind a bush at the back of someone's garden. We thought it would be hot and wet enough for the saplings to grow...turns out it was too dry and they all died.

It was quite funny considering my friends and I were thinking we were gonna make an easy grand out of it :fuzemb:

I've taken drugs, supplied drugs (from a legal viewpoint, at least) and more. Never did underage drinking though, I've missed out I reckon. Vandalism, trespassing, shoplifting, illegal driving, noise violation and I pirated a shitload of things but never been caught out.

Now the only thing I do is smoke grass but sure, the police don't give a shit anyways.

You bought the shopkeepers virginity?

I think it was a JOKE?

I didn't do my maths homework last night. I'm now browsing the web instead of doing tonight's homework. This is as rebellious as I get.

I've tried to stay on the good side of the law generally, 'cause I'm boring and don't like causing trouble. Maybe I've travelled on trains without a ticket a few times, rode a bike on the street while drunk at night, sneaked across the border and back between Switzerland and Germany without a passport 'cause I left it in my locker in the hotel and couldn't be bothered to go get it... Minor crap.

However, as part of a group, I was involved in a big protest. Whether or not what I did could be considered as being criminal, I did act against 'authority' and did get assaulted by security guards, even though I wasn't actually arrested like many of my peers, including my sister.

Here's some backstory anyway.

Several years ago my family and several of our friends opposed a housing estate that was being constructed over some wildlife habitat near my home. Legal action didn't get us very far, so my sister took it upon herself to set up a protest camp to physically stop the housing developers from tearing up the land. Many joined her, including seasoned protesters from across the country.

Near the end of the 2 year conflict, the developers fenced off the area, employing full-time security guards to block off roads and patrol the perimeter, then fenced off the protest camp in what was effectively a siege, blocking off their access to food and water, although they did allow protesters to leave if they chose to.

Several times, I tried to sneak my way into the cordoned area to toss provisions over the camp fence. I was caught a few times by the guards and frogmarched/carried out. Later on, I was involved in an attempt to storm the camp and tear down the fences with a group of 30 people as an act to oppose the siege - I think I was punched in the face by a guard in the chaos.

Later still, the developers hired bailiffs and started evicting the camp - Police oversaw this to keep the peace, and I was threatened with arrest when I tried to get close, despite being only a young teenager.

What the developers did was all deemed to be illegal anyway and they were fined heavily. Maybe even that doesn't make standing against them being "correct" in the eyes of the law, but that's the closet thing I've done to proper criminal activity (except perhaps for later spraying graffiti and performing minor acts of vandalism/sabotage on construction equipment & materials) and makes a semi-interesting story. Sort of.

How much time do we have?

Anyway, my criminal activity has almost entirely been illegal, but not unethical. I went through a shop lifting phase when I was 12, but stopped completely when I got caught stealing packs of X-Men trading cards at Meijer. I used to sell pot when I was 18, and 19, but never sold anything harder than that, and never to kids. These days my illegal activity is limited to the occasional smoking of a joint.