Things that you got in BIG trouble for when you were young

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 12:55AM #1

There seems to be a few of these 'stories from your youth' threads around and the moment so, me being the unoriginal so and so that I am, here's another

My biggest was probably one night when my folks went out and we had a babysitter. I had recently seen someone spray an aerosol at a flame and thought that it pretty cool. So I got a can of fly spray and threw it in the fire while the babysitter was out of the room.
BANG!
Red hot coal all over the sitting room (no one hurt thank god) but a noticable fire on the couch. Weel she managed to extinguish it, and the room needed to be renovated anyway.
But mammy and daddy were MAD!

There was another little incident a couple of years after when i was a little bored one day so went wandering. I came across a car garage and lo and behold there was stones everywhere so I had great craic for the rest of the afternoon relieving the cars of their windows.
Couldn't see what all the fuss was about but then again I didn't understand the value of thousand of pounds at the time

omahaid · 26-02-2010 12:58AM

Burnt a forest down when I was 4, got in big trouble for that.

AnonoBoy · 26-02-2010 01:00AM

Well there was this horse called Shergar......

Actually wait, I never got caught for that so I'm grand.

Sorry, I got nothing to add to this thread.

brummytom · 26-02-2010 01:03AM

Both of mine involved the internet.

1: Looking at porn in Year 5 and getting sent to the deputy Headteacher (a woman.. God that was embarrassing)

2: Telling a stuck-up bitch to "stick it up her hole" (and other stuff) on Facebook. Got sent to the Headteacher (also a woman) for that.

Mom and Dad never found out about either though

Oh, and forgot. I accidently implied to the Police my dad had murdered my mom. They sent round two squad cars and weren't as nice as I'd expected. Bastards got me into right trouble

Victor · 26-02-2010 01:11AM

I didn't get in trouble for it, but I pulled the handle of the neighbours back door when I was about 9. That said, I blamed myself a lot.

You know the was kids like to collect stickers and badges? At about age 8, one of the lads was into that. Except the badges came off real cars. He hasn't been in trouble with the Garda since.

Toots · 26-02-2010 01:14AM

I think I was fairly quiet as a youngster (cos I'm ancient now lol) but the one massive beacon of an example I can think of happened when I was 17.

I was going to a house party, and at that stage my parents usually would let me take either a hip flask of my spirit of choice, or else a 6 pack of beer/cider. We had an understanding that that was all I would drink on the night, and up until then it had worked well.

That night a friend of mine was buying me Bacardi, I assumed he was getting me a naggin, so I told my parents and they were OK with it, so off I went. It turned out that seeing as four of us asked him to get us bacardi, he'd just bought a litre to share between the 4 of us. When we got there however, one of the girls who was to share it wasn't coming and the other two tasted it, declared it horrible and decided they'd just stick to the beer that was there. So muggins here decided to just start necking the thing (don't ask me why) and within about an hour, I'd consumed the entire bottle (neat I might add). Was actually feeling fine initially and thought I was deadly, as you do at 17 and have just consumed a potentially lethal quantity of booze.

After about another hour, I was feeling very very drunk, went to the loo, fell on the floor and just couldn't get up. I literally couldn't even lift my head, arms, legs, anything. The worst part was I was completely coherent, but my body wouldn't work, so I was getting a bit scared at that stage as the reality of just how much alcohol was inside me had started to kick in. Then the puking began, and I've never been so sick in my life. Couldn't stop to even catch a breath, it was like that episode of Family Guy where they all drink the Ipecac and barf all over the living room. Two of my friends were sitting in with me, and one of them went out to get something and while she was gone, I closed my eyes, but the girl who was with me thought I was passing out, so she got the shower hose, turned it on full blast and literally drenched me in freezing water. So there I was, lying in a puddle on the bathroom floor wedged between the bath and the loo, absolutely soaked through and shivering, and just when I thought the night couldn't get any worse, the host's older brother arrived home and started to kick everyone out of the house!

Seeing as I couldn't walk, I was carried home by two chivalrous male friends. Of course they had to get my parents to carry me into the house. To say they were unimpressed was something of an understatement. I remember my mum swearing, and thinking I would surely be grounded until I was 30. Everything got a little hazy at that point. Then I woke up on the couch at about 4am, in my PJs with a duvet over me. I looked around and saw my dad in his PJs and dressing gown attempting to sleep in the very uncomfortable armchair opposite me. Oh the shame!!!

The weirdest thing was, the following morning my mum woke me up with toast, OJ and paracetamol (I actually didn't have a hangover funnily enough, just very sore chest from all the retching) but I wasn't grounded. They never even gave out to me! It was just like a totally normal day

I thought I'd at least get a lecture, but nothing was ever said.

shuvly · 26-02-2010 01:15AM

Didn't get in touble at the time..but stupidly told my younger brother, who then told on me. Was babysitting for an assistant bank manager, who lived above the bank. Both anklescratchers eventually asleep, was bored and after just kinda mooching around the appartment..(obviously didn't touch the alcohol and top it up with water), I found an odd thing on a rope on the back of the bedroom door...

I was the cat that curiosity killed and I fiddled...(hit me)..anyhoo, 5 mins(ish) later had knock on downstairs door...2 guards there saying bank alarm had been set off and they needed to search the premises..I copped, (no pun intended) what I had done as they searched the appartment, that what I had fiddled with was yer mans personal alarm..he was called back from the pub, I pretended to be very scared and cried, he dropped me home and gave me 50 irish punts..I was 15 at the time and thought I had milked the situation fairly well..bloody brothers..

Atavan-Halen · 26-02-2010 01:37AM

There used to be a really nosy/bitchy neighbour where I lived and of course me and a friend decided it would be hilarious to order a sh*t load of Domino's pizza to her house. So we rang Domino's, ordered the pizza and surely enough a delivery driver arrived at her door with several pizzas. Cue the friend and me p*ssing ourselves laughing, however the joke was on us. We used the house phone which of course Domino's were able to trace and they kept ringing back all day. Then our parents got home (they were out when we done all of this obviously) and answered the phone to Domino's. Of course me and the friend knew who was on the phone so cue us hiding in the wardrobe :P

I think I have more stories, I'll post them as I think of them.

CrazyRabbit · 26-02-2010 01:41AM

Age 12, taking a train to Wexford with some mates. Getting drunk, sleeping outdoors for 2 days and then partially walking back to Dublin before being picked up by the Guards (we got about 60 miles!)

And I accidentally shot a friend in the leg with a home made crossbow. It's ok though...he got a really cool scar from it.

Oh, and there was the incident with the powder flash bombs and the not-so-flame-resistant curtains.

Orla K · 26-02-2010 01:43AM

Feeding my brother dog food.

I really don't know why I got into so much trouble for it, 1 my brother is older than me, 2 I didn't force him to and 3 I wasn't even holding the spoon.

My other brother scared away the baby sitter, he was peeling an apple and she got worried about him using the knife and tried to take it off him, it ended in my brother holding the knife up to her, she never came back.

LenaClaire · 26-02-2010 01:48AM

At the beginning of a 10 hour flight I convinced my 3 year old brother that his imaginary friend was dead. My parents about killed me.

McChubbin · 26-02-2010 01:59AM

I remember once I tried to steal a Cabbage Patch doll from the local toy shop by simply pretending I'd had it with me all along. Considering that at the time the store had none of those electronic sensor dohickeys near the enterance, I would've gotten away with it had it not been for an eagle eyed security guard.

I was 5 at the time and ended up getting hawled by my mother to the Garda station for a stern ticking off. Ended up being reduced to tears by "The scary policeman" before he took pity, gave me a lollipop and told me not to let it happen again. Was afraid of Gardai for about 2 years after that.

Then, during the first two years of secondary, I was still on pocket money from my parents (aged 13-14 at the time) and this was usually €10 given on a Monday, meant to fund both my weekend endeavors AND lunch from the school tuck-shop. Considering the extorionate prices at my school, I was lucky if I got to Wensday with €2 left in my pocket.

Anyways, I took to fleecing the odd euro or two from my mother's purse on several occasions. Then, after not getting caught for a number of months, I got cocky and started robbing €5 bills. Whenever I came close to capture, I'd just feign innocence and lay off the thieving for a week or two.

Then, I'd start again. It ended when I was caught red-handed trying to nick a tenner after my mom came home early. Got grounded for a week after that.

I also had an obsession with melting things on the fire grate. Up until we eventually got the fire blocked off, I used to love melting crayons with the embers from last night's fire. The red ones smelt particularly-Oh, look: A blimp!!

Run_to_da_hills · 26-02-2010 02:25AM

Cut the hair off all my sisters dolls thinking it would grow again.

When I was about 10 was caught daubing "UP THE IRA" on a neighbours wall up the road, old man killed me for that.

Had a row with my brother and emptied a full jar of honey into his pencil case.

Got drunk at my aunts 25th wedding anniversary, out of embarrassment the old man drove me home, I puked all over his car on the way back.

DazMarz · 26-02-2010 02:28AM

At 9, telling other kids in school Santa didn't exist... Grounded for a month, no Nintendo, no dessert and a few visits to a child psychologist. For upsetting a few kids?!? FFS....

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 02:31AM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Age 12, taking a train to Wexford with some mates. Getting drunk, sleeping outdoors for 2 days and then partially walking back to Dublin before being picked up by the Guards (we got about 60 miles!)

And I accidentally shot a friend in the leg with a home made crossbow. It's ok though...he got a really cool scar from it.

Oh, and there was the incident with the powder flash bombs and the not-so-flame-resistant curtains.

All worthwhile so!

He's probably using it to pull to this day (except in his version it was from a collapsing roof whislt rescuing children from a burning building)

My name is URL · 26-02-2010 02:35AM

I went on the mitch once with a girl a year behind me in post-primary (I was 16).. she was very hot tbh

We were behind a youth club, and she ended up **** me. It was all good until the next day when we were called into the principals office and shown CCTV footage of the incident. Her auld fella wanted to kill me, rightly enough.

No regrets though

Bonito · 26-02-2010 02:41AM

Me and an ex broke in her mothers new bed before she got the chance

Don't regret it at all :pac:

Gray · 26-02-2010 02:48AM

When I was about 7 my mum left me outside a shop to look after my little sister in the pram, any way after about 30 seconds I'm bored with this & decide to looking in the toy shop window down the road is much more interesting & head off. 10 minuets later me mum comes out of the shop & were both gone, after a frantic search she finds me & demands to know what I've done with me sister.

As I didn't have a clue & was apparently quite happy that little sis had disappeared I got an almighty wallop as we went of to the local nick to report the loss. When we got there my sister was already there as some passing busybody had decided that a child in a pram outside a shop in the middle of the afternoon must be abandoned & brought her in.

I got another wallop from me father when he got in, & although it was last century my sister still likes to remind me of the trouble I got into for losing her:o

Dudess · 26-02-2010 02:50AM

My second year parent-teacher meeting - made my mammy cry...

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 03:20AM

My name is URL wrote: »

I went on the mitch once with a girl a year behind me in post-primary (I was 16).. she was very hot tbh

We were behind a youth club, and she ended up **** me. It was all good until the next day when we were called into the principals office and shown CCTV footage of the incident. Her auld fella wanted to kill me, rightly enough.

No regrets though

Why wasn't you tube around then!?
reminds me of being downstairs in a bar when someone took his girl upstairs to the poolroom for a bit of 'quiet time'.

It was the only night 20 people were let in behind the bar to watch a live show

Bonito · 26-02-2010 03:22AM

Dudess wrote: »

My second year parent-teacher meeting - made my mammy cry...

For shame! I have never made my mammy cry

Although she admits she loves my younger brother more when she has one too many :mad:

Senna · 26-02-2010 03:33AM

We used to annoy the hell out of the woman that live a couple of hundred yards up the road (she brought it on herself), one day she arrived down to my house and informed my father of all the things we had done (but she added more stuff just to be a bitch), he gave me a right boll0xin for that.

Last year her small business closed down, i had a permanent smile that day. (yes i do hold grudges)

Magenta · 26-02-2010 03:35AM

The first dial-up Internet bill I ran up, back in 2000..... :eek: let's leave it at that

Victor · 26-02-2010 03:38AM

Stetson Clumsy Liar wrote: »

Why wasn't you tube around then!?

So you want what amounts to child pornography then?

Timistry · 26-02-2010 03:41AM

My name is URL wrote: »

I went on the mitch once with a girl a year behind me in post-primary (I was 16).. she was very hot tbh

We were behind a youth club, and she ended up **** me. It was all good until the next day when we were called into the principals office and shown CCTV footage of the incident. Her auld fella wanted to kill me, rightly enough.

No regrets though

You, sir, are a hero!

If only that would only happen to me:rolleyes:

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 03:49AM

Victor wrote: »

So you want what amounts to child pornography then?

It's not child pornography, it's childhood victory

I'll see you outside...

we'llallhavetea_old · 26-02-2010 03:54AM

fcuked off with another child when i was younger for a walk, ended up bein gone for hours (i wasn't even five)

the guards were rang, mammies crying, daddies losing the complete plot when we eventually turned up!

it was the only time i got a slap on the arse (didn't even hurt :cool:)

got in loads more crap when i was older, but i really don't want to remind myself of what a gobsh!te i was! :rolleyes:

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-02-2010 04:09AM

Was staying on the uncles farm when my aulds were away on holiday

He brought one of the neighbours who was my age over to play, we had a fight and I threw a stone at him and he ran off telling my uncle

I was ****ting kittens when he said that so I hid. My poor uncle and auntie, neither of which had kids, went looking for me. I spent 3 hours hiding behind a door of a shed.They panicked really bad, they had sticks checking water tanks and sceptic tanks, were crying thinking that I was probably drowned somewhere or other

They came into the shed I was in about 40 times calling my name and I didn't budge. It was only when they called out in the yard that I wasn't actually in any trouble that I came out. I f*ckin cringe to this day, poor people had no children experience and were entrusted with me and thought that they had killed me within a couple of days.
It's only now when I think of their faces, that there was a mixture of joy, relief, and a desire to give me the good kicking that I deserved but couldn't get because I easn't theirs

OutlawPete · 26-02-2010 04:21AM

Thought I was Steve McQueen when I was 10 and was showing off in front of my cousins reversing up and down their housing estate and smashed our car into their neighbours .. :cool:

Super-Rush · 26-02-2010 04:29AM

I rang a sex line once............:cool:

OutlawPete · 26-02-2010 04:33AM

super-rush wrote: »

I rang a sex line once............:cool:

Oh, you reminded me.

I wonder if it's the same one I rang, your most likely too young though.

Back around '86 the Sunday World had a front page headline about Irish people ringing sex chat lines in Miami. They even printed the number :eek:

Maybe someone can check this out?

Anyway, everyone went to Mass and I phoned it and talked to this American chick, told her I was 18 but she said: "You sound like a young kid.."

I just kept talking about boobs to her and she laughed and chated and a half hour later we parted ways. I remember listening to Chris De Burgh's The Lady In Red and thinking about her .. :cool:

The phone bill must have been ginormous but my Dad never told my Mam

Things that you got in BIG trouble for when you were young

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