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To ask - what have you unbelievably got away with?

281 replies

Mollymoo78 · 22/09/2016 23:56

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?!

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OhWotIsItThisTime · 23/09/2016 22:52

Made up some scientific studies in an exam. I got an 'A'.

Forgot to renew the road tax on my motorbike. Only remembered when I ran into a traffic jam caused by the police doing spot checks on tax discs. I slowly weaved my way through the jam with my foot over the expired disc.

I've also accidentally stolen biscuits from Lidl after forgetting I'd stashed them in the buggy.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 23/09/2016 23:08

I completely forgot to MOT my motorbike for 5 months. This was about 4 years ago, when ANPR was already so pervasive tax dodgers could be spotted on 80% of A roads. Nothing happened. I took it in eventually, and told the tester it had been parked up for the winter.

BelladiNotte · 23/09/2016 23:49

My friends got away with tale. A few years ago round about christmastime, they went to a large superstore here, Christmas shopping. Two trolleys loaded with food, gifts for their kids. And a v.large and expensive flatscreen (quite new thing, then) tele for themselves.so they were each pushing a trolley and got two assistants to carry the TV out to the car for them.Went through checkout, paid for everything, assistants helped them pack their car. Only later at home did they realise that the tele hadn't gone through the till.
Amazing!

WhatWouldCoachBombayDo · 23/09/2016 23:59

No hearts just worked in Banking and have a "foreign" step mother lol

Sukebind · 24/09/2016 00:20

When I was learning to drive my mum let me practice on my grandparents' car which was much nicer and faster than our own car and which had insurance that covered all our family. We had taken it on holiday because it was bigger than our own car and so my mum encouraged me to drive the family along a fast and notorious road near where we were staying. This road had such a reputation that there was often an ambulance parked in a lay-by on it in case it was needed as it was a rural road and ambulance stations and hospitals were a long drive away. When we got home my grandmother revealed that the insurance which covered me to drive it had lapsed before we went away but she hadn't told us because she didn't 'want to spoil [my] fun'! My mum sti feels sick thinking about it.

GlitteryFluff · 24/09/2016 00:41

Loving these. Grin

CoolToned · 24/09/2016 00:47

When I was a 15, I allowed my kid brother who was 10 that time to drive the car. He sped across an intersection!! I shudder now whenever I remember it. Imagine what could have happened!

RhodaBorrocks · 24/09/2016 00:50

Mine are all car related, lol.

I once drove around for 6 months without insurance and forgot to renew my tax, because it's free on my car. I only found out because I got a flat tyre and tried to call my insurers roadside assistance. It turned out they had erroneously cancelled my insurance and sent the letter when I was in between moving house. The letter arrived only hours before the post office put my mail redirect into action (they had dragged their feet on that). Needless to say, I quickly reinsured and taxed my car!

I once fell asleep at the wheel. Thankfully it was an empty road, late at night and I woke up when I drifted into the kerb. No one was hurt, apart from one scraped alloy.

I was unknowingly complicit in my XDP stealing a car. We drove across a foreign country and left it at an airport. He put the keys under the wheel arch and tried to tell me that's what you did with hire cars, which was when I got suspicious. He came clean when we were back in the UK.

A friend and I got off our faces and decided to go for a drive (they drove, I didn't back then). We put on 80s wigs and were wearing pyjamas. We stopped at an off licence, parked right outside, went in and bought more booze and then drove off. How we didn't get reported by the shop clerk or pulled over by the police I don't know. And how we didn't kill or injure ourselves or anyone else is a miracle. Friend was in a job where any kind of criminal record would have lost them their career completely and they begged me never to tell. They don't do that job any more, nor anything remotely related, so I feel safe to tell now.

Oh, one not car themed!

Homebase delivered two freestanding lamps to DSis when she only ordered one. DM accepted the second one not realising the first had arrived. She called and they said to keep it, so they gave it to me.

ephemeralfairy · 24/09/2016 01:13

Too, too much. I'm convinced it will all come back to bite me in the arse at some point.

LouisvilleLlama · 24/09/2016 01:31

I was a massive fucking idiot ( like a real cunt) and drunk occasionally on Fridays at 6th form with a few people, had the drink in my bag and it clinked etc the way only alcohol does.

I once dropped £250 on the floor didn't realise, walked back found it on the floor and was like WTF?!!?! Found my house key scrambled up in it and my WTF turned into a holy fuck I'm so lucky.

GuiltyPleasure · 24/09/2016 01:41

Working as a temp on a reception desk I accidentally pressed a button under the desk that I thought was to open the door for a visitor. 10 minutes later several police officers arrived, concerned a robbery was in progress because apparently someone had pressed the emergency alarm button. Apparently the company were fined by their alarm company for a false call out. When asked about it I feigned complete ignorance. I left a week later for a permanent job with the same police force.

Saracen · 24/09/2016 02:14

My online bank is great for all things a computer can do, but hopelessly incompetent if a human has to get involved. Many years ago, I opened a joint account for dh and me with £600. When I logged on, I found we were in possession of TWO accounts, each containing £600. Rang the bank, who insisted sniffily that they could not possibly have made such an error and that my dh must have opened another account and put money into it. I explained that he didn't know how to use a computer besides I never give him access to £600 without good reason as he'd squander it. But no, they wouldn't agree that they'd made a mistake.

So I sat on it for a year, then transferred the money into the other account and closed the empty one.

SharonBottsPoundOfGrapes · 24/09/2016 02:37

Daily Mail your boss didn't happen to inherit $600,000+ from his Great Aunt Birgit did he?

KateInKorea · 24/09/2016 13:25

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BreadPitt · 24/09/2016 14:38

DH lost his Oyster card last year so ordered a new one before we went up to London. A while later he realised he could still log into the lost card account online, he did and it contained £50 credit. No idea where it has come from.
Trying to be helpful DH went through the many hoops that was TFL and got nowhere.

We've now discovered an option to transfer balance to another account. Next time we're in London it's going onto my card Grin

DiegeticMuch · 24/09/2016 15:10

This thread is worth it just for Undersea's inspiring story.

shartsi · 24/09/2016 17:01

when I was 19 my boyfriend was an agency worker in a BT call centre. he was paid weekly. He then became a permanent employee of the call centre and was paid monthly. However no one told the agency about that he was now directly employed by call centre. He carried on receiving weekly wages from agency and monthly salary from call centre for 2 years until he left to go to uni. To date no one has ever contacted him about refunding money.

Bearcats · 24/09/2016 17:22

A couple of weeks ago I went to the cinema with DP and our two godsons. We have 'limitless' where we pay monthly for unlimited cinema, and our loyalty card had enough on for two free kids tickets. The ticket kiosk and food kiosk are seperate, so I sent DP to get the tickets and I would get snacks. I got the children one of those snack boxes each where they got a cup and toy, small popcorn and tube of smarties. I ordered myself a popcorn to share with DP and a drink. Cashier asked if we were a family of four, I said yes there's four of us, DP was getting our tickets, she replied I get another adult popcorn and drink then. Didn't really understand but nodded along. So had 2 kids snack boxes and drinks and 2 adult popcorn and drinks. Went to pay and she said no it's part of the family of four deal you don't pay. I was really confused and took the food and walked over to DP, explained to him what happened. Apparently the cinema had a deal where for £30 you got 2 adult and 2 child tickets and the food - order the tickets then go and get the food. She's obviously thought DP was buying the ticket package and gave me all the food for free, so the entire trip was free. I was so chuffed. Little things and all that Grin

SabineUndine · 24/09/2016 17:27

undersea Flowers You are a role model for anyone in an abusive relationship.

SabineUndine · 24/09/2016 17:45

When I was about 8 I peed on the loo seat and my brother got a bollocking for it. Still not sorry. He was obnoxious.

Couple of years ago I bought a train ticket online, for France. The bank computer thought it looked like fraud, and blocked the payment. However the transaction went through, and I got the ticket. I went into the bank to explain all this and the manager phoned whoever to sort it but they said no such transaction existed. So I got a £130 return ticket for free. Did worry a bit I'd get stopped when I put the ticket through the machine, but it was fine.

HerFaceIsAMapOfTheWorld · 24/09/2016 17:50

so many things, I am lucky in certain ways but in others unlucky

SabineUndine · 24/09/2016 18:12

Ebayaholic similar happened to a guy I was at uni with, decades ago. He got bored in France and came back to the UK to spend the year pissing about at home. Our lecturers visited us all while we were abroad to prevent this sort of thing and couldn't find his address. So they phoned his mum to ask where he was living. He was standing next to his mum while she was on the phone telling the lecturer his address. He could easily have been the person who answered the phone. So then he had to drop everything and get back to France within a matter of HOURS. Not so easy back then before Eurostar and cheap flights.

HazelBite · 24/09/2016 19:22

Many years ago I ordered my twin sons a CD player each from a catalogue, the did not arrive in time for Xmas so I told the catalogue and they deleted them from my statement.
When the lawn needed mowing round about the following April/May Dh went to the garden shed and discovered two CD players all boxed up where the delivery person had left them Blush
They had them the following Xmas!

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 24/09/2016 19:56

When I left my last job, they paid me my last month and then paid me again the following month.

I rang them and explained, put the money in a different account and waited for them to claim it back. Nothing happened. Rang them again. nothing.

Waited six months and then spent it. Fuck 'em, they were a bloody awful employer.

2kids2dogsnosense · 24/09/2016 20:01

Trappedinsuburbia
I can lie for Britain if I had to, I should get a job doing it !!!!

Blimey! I wish I could. I CANNOT tell a fib (never mind a lie) to save my life. I just can't!

I had better hope that if I ever commit a serious crime and get dragged in by the fuzz (smutty innuendo intended) that they don't ask outright "Did you do it?"

Otherwise it will be "Yes. Yes. I did do it. Sorry. Well, not sorry really - he was a total git and deserved to have his bum cut off. But, yes. I did it.

Can I have a cuppa tea now, please?"