When was the first time

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When was the first time you ever broke the law?

Everyone has done so at one time or another, mainly when they were younger - do you look back on it now? Would you still have done the same thing? Were you ever caught?

[hettyketty]

Your topic, what have you done?

[jamyramy]

haha .heres one for pnp we used to pick up the odd pint of milk on the way to the ferry from the doorsteps on the sunday clubrun through kirkdale.ps am allergic to milk but wasn't me gov!honest!.but I think most kids of my era will admit to waiting outside the local offlicence for therefunded bottles to be put out .then popem back for a second refund .then there s the times it was the rigour to carry mas shopping bag round those early supermarket days,with the basket,one for the basket one for me .my crappy mate put me on to.well enthusiasm took over .how could I come home with sweets when I had no pocket money to pay for them on return!ohhhh the shame being dragged back and made to confess in front of all store comers!!!sweets never tasted the same since!not quite Ronald kray,but every kids been there!pillar of the community now.a good hiding and an even bigger dose of shame an guilt ,showed the way,an bring it on!

[said]

Your topic, what have you done?

Ha!Ha! I have only just realised! Oh well - let's see what happens!

[said]

haha .heres one for pnp we used to pick up the odd pint of milk on the way to the ferry from the doorsteps on the sunday clubrun through kirkdale.ps am allergic to milk but wasn't me gov!honest!.but I think most kids of my era will admit to waiting outside the local offlicence for therefunded bottles to be put out .then popem back for a second refund .then there s the times it was the rigour to carry mas shopping bag round those early supermarket days,with the basket,one for the basket one for me .my crappy mate put me on to.well enthusiasm took over .how could I come home with sweets when I had no pocket money to pay for them on return!ohhhh the shame being dragged back and made to confess in front of all store comers!!!sweets never tasted the same since!not quite Ronald kray,but every kids been there!pillar of the community now.a good hiding and an even bigger dose of shame an guilt ,showed the way,an bring it on!

That was the good old days, I suppose! Ha!Ha! You cannot do it now because you would not be able to run fast enough.

[grassroots]

Arrested "slightly" drunk on my 21st birthday late evening , trying to assail a drainpipe to get onto the statue above the main door of Lewis's main entrance . Haha , good times but it was 1961 .. I was released next morning no charge . Two days later I reported for basic training in the army that sorted me out . .

[jamyramy]

That was the good old days, I suppose! Ha!Ha! You cannot do it now because you would not be able to run fast enough.

haha running whats that!the only time I do that is with dose of deli belly!

[Ceam]

Shop lifting a gobstopper when I was about 11 years old. Regretted it as soon as I walked out the shop. Never forgot it. Peer pressure is a dreadful thing.

[said]

Arrested "slightly" drunk on my 21st birthday late evening , trying to assail a drainpipe to get onto the statue above the main door of Lewis's main entrance . Haha , good times but it was 1961 .. I was released next morning no charge . Two days later I reported for basic training in the army that sorted me out . .

I would love to have witnessed that arrest. Did you recall what you had done the next morning?

[said]

Shop lifting a gobstopper when I was about 11 years old. Regretted it as soon as I walked out the shop. Never forgot it. Peer pressure is a dreadful thing.

Evidently, these days it would depend on who your peers are. Many do it now as a show of bravado to boast of.

[grassroots]

I would love to have witnessed that arrest. Did you recall what you had done the next morning?

No . But I was told by a GIANT of a police seargent in a cell in Cheapside nick the following morning , he said the only reason I wasn't being charged was it could effect my joining the army , but then again I reached even greater heights in the British Army . And after 23 years service I realised what a fool I'd been . I now don't get drunk just a couple of glasses of red wine does me now . Well maybe three .

[Ceam]

Evidently, these days it would depend on who your peers are. Many do it now as a show of bravado to boast of.

Has that not always been the case?

[said]

Has that not always been the case?

Yes, for most crime carried out by young people - but there was never any violence on vulnerable people as there is now. It was considered to be the height of cowardice, and cowards were never allowed in the street gangs.

[dav]

Smuggled a bottle of alcohol into California from Mexico. I was 19 and the California legal drinking age was 21. Held at the border for hours. Missed my connection. All for a poxy bottle of ...... Tia Maria (Oh, the indignity!).

[Albion102]

Shop lifting a gobstopper when I was about 11 years old. Regretted it as soon as I walked out the shop. Never forgot it. Peer pressure is a dreadful thing.

Strange - I once stole a marble from Bristol Guild and feel exactly the same way about it. Others were much more prolific, and one, albeit very nice, marble did not compare with the huge volumes of chocolate and porn that my peers were getting their hands on.

Based upon the current enforcement of the law, with young lads being criminalised for a schoolboy scrap, then I would have a few cautions. I was once told by a policeman to be a bit more careful next time after an "incident" when I was working as a doorman at University events.

Strictly speaking, I did commit other offences, but 17 vs 15 does not a paedo make !