Fred and George in Harry Potter. Don’t get me wrong, I love them and think they’re marvelous characters, but, uh, shoving a fellow student into a cabinet from which he may not be found for weeks should have got them some sort of attempted murder charge.
Witness the latest Eureka. A guy places blinky cubes around the town and get suspended while a person who steals a law officer’s body, almost killing her and she gets probation.
I see myself as occupying a somewhat-less-nerdlicher position by, though I understood the “Torchwood” reference, being without a clue regarding everything else in this thread. Yeah, I could pick up enough from personal knowledge and context to know what you meant, but I prefer to go with that “without a clue” statement, inaccurate as it may be.