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Mr Magic
In high school, I got detention in freshman year. But other than that, I never really got into serious trouble in school. Matter of fact, I never got arrested for anything after I got that detention. Lesson learned.
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thecrow174 wrote :

In high school, I got detention in freshman year. But other than that, I never really got into serious trouble in school. Matter of fact, I never got arrested for anything after I got that detention. Lesson learned.


That just means you never got caught.
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Come to think of it, I never got arrested before high school.
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thecrow174 wrote :

Come to think of it, I never got arrested before high school.


I was never "arrested", but I did have to be taken to the Sheriff's office, handcuffed, with my wife and kids following me as I sat in the back of a State Trooper's vehicle.

You wanna know why? Because I owed the state $25 from a ticket from 1998. So there was a bench warrant against me. I NEVER even knew this. I NEVER received a notice, or a bill of any kind. So needless to say, I was not happy about it. Of course, we just laugh it off now. Joking about my seedy criminal past.

EXIT QUESTION: How much do you think the state gained by wasting hours of the Trooper's time, gas, and internal paperwork that needed to be done? Yeah, I'm guessing they were in the red pretty far on that one.
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I had recently obtained a butterfly knife. I was no gangster and I didn't know any. I couldn't do the flippy-thing. I just thought a knife could come in handy, and bought one from a friend for five dollars.

I had detention. This was freshman year. It was still nice and warm outside. Not two months into high school and I was already getting into trouble. That one detention I had in junior high was really kind of a mistake. I hadn't known I was doing anything wrong. But now, I was actively rebelling, and learning about consequences.

I don't know what the detention was for, but smoking on school grounds is a pretty big possibility. Which was slightly silly, considering this was the first year that smoking was not allowed in the indoor atrium.

But whatever. There I sat, in detention. In a huge, nearly empty cafeteria, so all the kids could be spread out and unable to talk to each other. I was drawing, as usual. I needed to sharpen my pencil. Now you know where this is going, right?

I didn't think there was a pencil sharpener in the cafeteria. I didn't want to bother the teacher in charge, and I doubted he would allow me to get up and use a pencil sharpener if there even was one. I didn't even think I could get his attention without being "disruptive". (I later learned he is a pretty cool guy and I'm sure he would have. He had an [inconspicuous] earring and a full beard, and he liked the rock n roll.)

So, out comes the butterfly knife and I start whittling away at the pencil point. I was wrong. It was very easy to get the teacher's attention. I was going, sharpen, sharpen, for all of about five seconds, when I sensed a presence in front of me. I looked up. The grizzled, glaring teacher towered over me. He held out his hand. Hopefully and nervously, I handed him the pencil and smiled. "The knife!" he sternly rejoined.

Next thing I know, I am in the vice principal's office. A police officer shows up. He searches my bag. He pulls out a container of bubbles. "What is this?" he asked. Bubbles, I told him. He didn't believe me. He opened the bottle, probably expecting to find drugs. Nope, just bubble solution and wand. The weather was still nice. It was fun--a little incongruous(?) but fun, perhaps because of that incongruity--to blow bubbles outside before school. My box of crayons didn't have drugs in it either, but I'm sure would have been searched as well, if it was in my backpack instead of my locker.

That's about it for what I remember. Maybe my parents were called. I don't know what happened to the knife. It went away. Into that magic closet of cool things that get confiscated.

The next knife I had was also confiscated by police, on my 21st birthday. That one was also on my person for entirely innocent reasons. I've since given up trying to have one, since they seemed to get me in trouble more often than actually being useful.
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This is a forum of criminals.
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Mr Magic
My record is clean.
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thecrow174 wrote :

My record is clean.


That's what all criminals say.
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Mr Magic
I'm innocent until proven guilty, ya know.
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Sorry for bumping, but I have something to say.

I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that once you've come back to school from suspension, you've automatically flunked whatever grade you're in and have to repeat it. I know it sounds stupid, but it was just something I heard. This is a post coming from a guy who's never been suspended outside of school grounds.

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