What is the worst thing you have gotten away with?

I've never gotten away with anything.

You must have lied to someone and not get caught at some point in your life ;).


To add to my rather boring list of things: Was for some time fetching acquaintances for money in the night from distant places with my car. Which was sort of illegal, because I didn't have a taxi license or anything.
Had LSD and Speed in my house, because people brought it. Which is also nothing. Was recently talking to one of the former postdocs from our lab, a guy who seems to be a rather boring person who you'd not expect to go out. Seems he's taken everything which you can chemically synthesize (besides Crack and Meth), was quite suprised.
 
Doesn't really fit with the thread, but at the same time it does. Because I got away, unscathed.

Met a guy on the train. He offered me booze and beer. He seemed extremely hyperactive, had many nervous ticks and talked super fast. I was studying in eastern Germany at that time, and this guy was from the city I lived in, just "visiting friends". He told me he used to be the Crystal Meth king in town, had an apartment full of staff where he'd not only sell, but also produce it. Went to prison for quite some time. I found him interesting, so went along. Probably not a good idea, but still. First, we visited one of his friends, who later turned out to be a huge Nazi, I was sitting in this guy's living room, just chatting away. Police showed up, I snuck out and just waited in front of the building. Police didn't care about me at all, it was very obvious I wasn't part of "that" crowd. Was a really run down apartment building full of skinheads in jogging pants.

After that we went to a casino where he promised to get me some weed. On the way we met his friend who turned out to be a pimp. I talked to that guy for a while, he said some pretty disgusting stuff about women and I was happy when we left. Lastly we met this huge (almost 2 meters tall, broad shoulders) skinhead guy who turned out to be a professional boxer. The four of us went over to the pimps apartment, where his wife welcomed me and offered me some.. Camomille tea. The four of them sat down and started smoking Meth, while watching the German version of "American Idol" on a flatscreen TV. Probably one of the most bizarre scenarios I've ever been in. The alcohol wore off, I started feeling really uncomfortable as the only person who wasn't high af, so I found a good excuse to leave. In retrospect it was stupid as fudge, I was alone and anything could have happened to me.

Stuff like this happens to me all the time, no clue why. Not necessarily with legendary Meth dealers, but random encounters of the strange kind like this one.
 
Doesn't really fit with the thread, but at the same time it does. Because I got away, unscathed.

Met a guy on the train. He offered me booze and beer. He seemed extremely hyperactive, had many nervous ticks and talked super fast. I was studying in eastern Germany at that time, and this guy was from the city I lived in, just "visiting friends". He told me he used to be the Crystal Meth king in town, had an apartment full of staff where he'd not only sell, but also produce it. Went to prison for quite some time. I found him interesting, so went along. Probably not a good idea, but still. First, we visited one of his friends, who later turned out to be a huge Nazi, I was sitting in this guy's living room, just chatting away. Police showed up, I snuck out and just waited in front of the building. Police didn't care about me at all, it was very obvious I wasn't part of "that" crowd. Was a really run down apartment building full of skinheads in jogging pants.

After that we went to a casino where he promised to get me some weed. On the way we met his friend who turned out to be a pimp. I talked to that guy for a while, he said some pretty disgusting stuff about women and I was happy when we left. Lastly we met this huge (almost 2 meters tall, broad shoulders) skinhead guy who turned out to be a professional boxer. The four of us went over to the pimps apartment, where his wife welcomed me and offered me some.. Camomille tea. The four of them sat down and started smoking Meth, while watching the German version of "American Idol" on a flatscreen TV. Probably one of the most bizarre scenarios I've ever been in. The alcohol wore off, I started feeling really uncomfortable as the only person who wasn't high af, so I found a good excuse to leave. In retrospect it was stupid as ****, I was alone and anything could have happened to me.

Stuff like this happens to me all the time, no clue why. Not necessarily with legendary Meth dealers, but random encounters of the strange kind like this one.
I enjoyed your story, and I'm sure it happened.
 
When I was around 13, a friend and I went on a bit of a crime spree over summer vacation. We broke into a bunch of houses and stole a lot of things. Some we'd keep for ourselves, but most of it was sold to our peers for a tidy sum. We never got caught, nor did anyone who mattered ever even suspect it was us who were doing all the stealing.
 
I enjoyed your story, and I'm sure it happened.

Thanks, man. It doesn't sound so outlandish when you consider that eastern Germany is ridden with Meth and the city I used to live in was pretty much the prime producer for the entire country, all the rest came from the Czech Republic. Even now if you go to the "projects" you see Meth addicts everywhere.
 
Met a guy on the train. He offered me booze and beer. He seemed extremely hyperactive, had many nervous ticks and talked super fast. I was studying in eastern Germany at that time, and this guy was from the city I lived in, just "visiting friends". He told me he used to be the Crystal Meth king in town, had an apartment full of staff where he'd not only sell, but also produce it. Went to prison for quite some time. I found him interesting, so went along.
Have to say, I find it pretty weird to find such guy "interesting". Every single word describing this guy here shouts to me "annoyance".
 
Have to say, I find it pretty weird to find such guy "interesting". Every single word describing this guy here shouts to me "annoyance".

These are not mutually exclusive and you are correct with your observation, he was indeed very annoying, though the alcohol helped.
 
Most expensive thing I got away with must be my cumulative pirated software, obviously.
I guess this. For a long time most of my music/movies/games/software library was pirated. Those were the days. But really I don't miss it.

Another thing I've gotten away with would be my driving. I'm a bad driver. As in I drive too fast, too lazy, and take too many risks. No fines or accidents of any kind though. A gazillion near accidents though.
 
I got away with attempted jaywalking, under the influence.
 
I would think the FBI would be monitoring this thread.

But since I believe the statute of limitations has passed, I did steal some mail when I was a kid. It was my friend's idea (seriously), he said we could find money in the mail (we didn't).
 
The thought of an FBI employee dedicated to monitoring cfc is kinda hillarious

No, it isn't. All CFCers used to play Civ. Civ means an urge for world domination. We all are batpoo crazy want to rule the world. Literally.
 
The thought of an FBI employee dedicated to monitoring cfc is kinda hillarious

Just "kinda"? I was shooting for "outright" or maybe "blew coffee out my nose."

Related bit of humor:

Spoiler :
I have this acquaintance at city hall in public works.

This citizen comes in demanding video footage of an intersection. He was in an accident and there is a dispute over fault. The intersection does have a traffic light, and like most traffic lights in Palmdale it has a video driven control system. My guy explains to him that those cameras feed into a computer that controls the traffic lights in real time, but there is no recording made. Citizen comes unglued. He "knows" that isn't true and starts ranting about subpoenas and how he's a taxpayer and has a right to this information. At the end of the day there was no way to talk sense to this guy and he ended up getting escorted out of city hall, ranting all the way.

So among the ranting the guy of course referenced how the federal agents and cops always have no problem getting this footage. Obviously he watches television, where "Oh there was a crime yesterday? Let's review the traffic cams and trace where the criminal came from, where they went, run facial recognition, and solve this before we even leave the building" happens all the time.

Little Palmdale has eighty controlled intersections. Each one has four cameras in the control system. Even at a low framerate like ten fps they would generate several terrabytes per day of data, using state of the art video compression. Los Angeles has over four thousand controlled intersections, which would generate several HUNDRED terabytes per day. There are over a million traffic lights in the US, which would generate several MILLION terrabytes per day. His estimate is that this would fill the entire storage capacity of the internet every couple hours, give or take.

Morale: Maybe you are always being watched, but frankly you just aren't that interesting so the watchers aren't really paying any attention.
 
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