To ask - what have you unbelievably got away with?

[Mollymoo78]

Normally I get away with nothing, however there was one day not so long ago I had to get something from the server room at work and I accidentally knocked over some strange thing with lights on. It looked like Johnny Five's head and was rather warm. I put it all back and crept but when I got back to my desk they said everyone in the building had lost their connection to the system!! I kept nervously silent while the IT bloke spent the entire morning trying to sort it out, listening to my colleagues moaning about not being able to work. To this day they don't know it was me!

So has anyone else got something they secretly got away with and can't quite believe it?!

Also just week I was running late to the station to travel to a meeting, rather than walk I drove, for the first time ever the station car park was full so I panicked. I ended up leaving/abandoning the car literally across the road from the station, fully expected at least a parking ticket on the windscreen. Got back and nothing, car fine, no ticket, no clamp.

Fire alarms were being deliberately set off nearly every day at school. The school were mega pissed off about it and threatened to get tough. I set one off the next day. A girl in another class got the blame and got suspended.

I went through a shoplifting phase when I was about 15.

Having a shag right in the middle of a footpath in the Norfolk Broads. About a minute after we'd finished a family walked around the corner. Crazy.

A few years ago i was running a city centre pub and parking was a nightmare. one of the locals told me that the residents parking bay right outside wasn't legal because (as ll mnetter parking experts will know) there was no sign accompanying the road markings.
So, taking his word for it, i parked there solidly for about 2 months. Got a parking ticket every day....every fortnight i would bundle them up and post them to the council saying "bay not legal"...

after the two months, i got a letter back from them and the front page was my name, address and a list of all the penalty notice references, the second page was a short one line saying "these tickets are all cancelled"

They never came and put up the tiny little plate that was required to legalise the parking bay, but i also never got any more tickets!

i still have that letter...in fact, i think i laminated it for posterity!

Loving some of these - laminating fake IDs in school has to be pretty damn good.

Getting hold of the loyalty card stamp in Caffè Nero and filling up
My card!

Sitting outside a very rough pub with a friend having a sneaky joint many years ago. A policeman drove past and then stopped - as did my heart! But he thought we were prostitutes and gave us a twenty minute lecture on 'not doing this sort of thing' took our details and said we'd be arrested if we were found loitering in that area again.

We were a confusing mix of insulted and very relieved that day!

Some fantastic justification for shoplifting in some of these (the insoles one for example)....

Getting child bus fare on the bus from my 16th birthday until I left school 2.5 years later. I have youthful looks and was never asked my age. I got a child fare by accident at 29 (fortunately a couple of weeks before my bump was showing). I normally get a daysaver, so got on, asked how much a single to town was, paid my fare thinking that sounded cheap and realised when I sat down that I had a child ticket. The best bit is that secondary schools issue IDs that should be shown to prove the child fare! I was also wearing adult guiding uniform. I wonder if he thought I was a girl guide!

Generally being a university student just before the rise of the digital photography era and social media. The club I was in was really inspired by a certain women's institute calendar...

I set fire to Charing Cross station Platform1....

In my youth, when you could smoke on trains, I threw my finished but still lit fag out of the non platform side of Platform 1 at Charing Cross. The carriage got a bit smoky but I thought it was just the residual smoke. The flames were starting just as we pulled out

High street bank accidentally deposited 2k in to my account, I noticed it and quickly transferred it to an overseas account of a friend held by the same bank. I awaited the phone call such came, I then said oh yes it came in but has now gone out,they said ok.

I waited a week,friends sent me the money back to another account, minus an agreed handling fee haha. I was never contacted again and neither was friend with offshore account.

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I got away with some really scary shit when I was younger. I don't know how I'm still alive!

1 - When I was 19, I borrowed my mum's car for a short journey. I wasn't insured but of course I knew nothing could possibly go wrong! I parked at the house I was going to, and went inside. A while later I heard a car beeping, but thought nothing of it. Then after another while, heard more beeping - looked out the window but couldn't see anything wrong. A while later when I was leaving to go back home, I realised I'd left the handbrake down and the car in neutral when I saw that my mum's car had rolled across the road and neatly stopped between two parked cars - hadn't touched either of them!

2 - I was 20 and had a joint while living in a third-storey apartment. High as a kite, I opened the sash window, sat out on the narrow windowsill, and pulled the window down behind me. I stayed there for a while, happily surveying the ground far below me, before reaching behind me to push the window up again and climb back inside.

3 - I was around 20ish and was kind of hanging out with a male friend of my mother's. He was about 40. We went for a long drive, had several pints, and when we left the pub I jokingly told him that he should let me drive. He handed me the keys! So I got in and drove home, reaching 100mph at one stage - this wasn't on a motorway or dual carriageway, just a standard wide-ish road.

I feel sick when I think about those things now, and feel twice as sick when I look at my kids, approaching mid-teens, and I dread letting them off to live unsupervised lives in case they're anything like me.

Not me but my dad told me this story.

Years ago, and I'm talking over 35 years ago, him and my uncle were driving around in a car. Neither had a driving licence or any insurance or mot. (They wouldn't do it now).

They broke down and were pushing the car, the police came by and they thought that was it, they be arrested and whatever, but instead the police helped them to push the car and get it started then wished them well and off they went.

Nothing to be proud of I know but that's the story I was told.

Another one I had a big drama with a mobile phone company.

I wrote to them to say I would be cancelling my contract once the 18 month contract period was up. I had about 30 days to go as per the notice period.

For some reason they cut me off straight away, I rang up and said this was a mistake and they reconnected me, all fine, then I ended up getting a better deal from them and staying with them anyway and signing up up another 18 months, again all fine, only then they billed me for £180 early termination fee.

I cancelled the direct debit but the bank said it may be too late to stop the money coming out.

So I rang the phone company, had a load of hassle and several phone calls, they said they'd already applied for the money from the bank and it was too late.

In the end they deposited the £180 into my bank account, only thing was, that direct debit never did come out so I gained £180.

I never felt guilty I saw it's compensation for all the hassle they'd caused.

Ran up a £500 phone bill as a stupid student, was panicking as I in no way shape or form had the money to pay for it.
Money was taken out of my accoont, and for some reason put back in again (I assumed it was because it made me overdrawn and had no overdraft)
But, it was put back in twice. So the phone company went to take the money out again, got the money, and it didn't cost me anything
I breathed a sigh of relief

Not me but my mum - she crashed into a police car, writing it off completely (we had a Volvo - tank) and thanks to my dad having a go at the police the whole incident ended with them apologising to her

Yeah mine is similar to some others in that I dented a car opening my own, left a note, told the reception of where I was, notified the police and.....NOTHING.

Honestly I couldn't get my head round why you wouldn't want someone else to fork out for a massive dent in your car door but there you go...

I regularly shoplifted as a teenager - I used to go to boots and nick make up to order for girls at school. I never got caught and found out many years later that no one believed I had actually done it, they all thought I had got money from somewhere and was trying to 'buy' friends. I think I have an innocent face! I also used to skive off school regularly, everyone else got caught multiple times and I always got away with it, I was a bit of a swot and very quiet and the teachers believed all of my excuses.

I have one very like Yellowbird's. Ordered a fancy Christmas decoration online from John Lewis, to collect instore. Once it had arrived I went along to the collections counter in my nearest branch where, it being Christmas, the queues were enormous and the staff very frazzled. When it came to my turn they couldn't find my parcel, so they told me to take one from the shop floor instead, and gave me a note to show the sales assistant explaining what had happened. So I took my ornament home and delighted everyone with it over Christmas, then had an email from JL in January advising me that since it was a month since my order had arrived and I hadn't been in to collect it, they were refunding me for it.

(£25, so I didn't bother trying to give the money back.)

My dad has a worse one, which is that sometime in the late seventies he drove home from a party so drunk that all he remembers is waking up behind the wheel of the car halfway home. No incidents, got back entirely unscathed. It was only several years after telling me this story that he added that I'd been in the back of the car at the time, asleep in my carry cot.

(My parents barely drink at all, this was very much a one-off.)

Drove for a year with no insurance. I'd changed cars shortly after starting the policy, phoned and told them. They assured me that they'd take care of everything. Wasn't until the next renewal date that I realised I'd never heard back from them.

I once had to literally swallow a joint when an adult suddenly arrived. Yuck!

There must be a lot of uninsured people out there ...? I've also had small car incidents and given people my name, address and insurance details and so on ... and nothing has happened!

As a kid I thought I was incredibly fortunate to get away with deceiving my parents with irresponsible / bad behaviour. But once I was a teen I got away with NOTHING as far as the parents were concerned! And was often falsely accused. Karma's a bitch!

Lied about my exam results to get into uni. I now have a PhD and career in academia

When I was eight, I pooed on the bathroom rug and my senile aunt got the blame.

She was put in a home.

Pawprintz!!