Did you get away with anything in your Youth? [View all]

[qwlauren35]

Last edited Fri Apr 10, 2015, 10:38 AM - Edit history (1)

I was a really good kid. I didn't shoplift, fight, etc. However, I drive my car too fast and I have run some red lights.

But I still remember hanging out with some young white guys who talked about how they'd like to trash a restaurant just for the heck of it, and the only thing stopping them was that they'd get in trouble.

I didn't know people actually thought like that! Maybe it's a young guy kinda thing. Like frat parties and hazing.

So, what about you? Have you done anything wrong and gotten away with it?

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Edit: Right now, 28 people have said that they did "wrong" things quite a few times. So, I want to explain why I did this poll. Everyone on the right keeps saying that the people (black) the police are shooting are "criminals". Because they were shoplifters or missing child support payments. I wanted to point out that LOTS of people commit crimes. But some people don't get caught, or, more importantly, don't get arrested... or shot. And those people are usually white. So, instead of suggesting that the black people who are getting arrested... and shot, deserve it, and no one wants to suggest that they shouldn't be arrested, maybe either the same lenience should be applied as is applied to white youth... or more white youths should be arrested. Either way, the conversation would be drastically different. America would be quite alarmed if white youths were getting arrested... and shot, at the same rate as black youths. And the "Tough on Crime" theme would probably die a quiet death.

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	Never, I was always a good kid.
	4 (18%)
	OK, once. Felt guilty and never did it again.
	1 (5%)
	Once or twice, but it really wasn't me.
	1 (5%)
	Quite a few times.
	8 (36%)
	That was my entire teenaged experience.
	4 (18%)
	I did it, went to jail for it, never did it again.
	1 (5%)
	Other...
	3 (14%)
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