# The Worst crime I have ever committed is..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457 "2000-07-13T18:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/61 "2000-07-15T00:50:49Z")
I burned a hotel down once…it was an accident…not the whole hotel, but the sauna/changing room building. ---
**Author:** ![LabyrinthCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@LabyrinthCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LabyrinthCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/62 "2000-07-15T01:16:36Z")
The only time I ever spent in jail was simply because I was a passenger in my friends car. Does that count as a crime? Oh, I forgot to mention…my friend skidded on a slick spot while taking a turn (it had been raining) and ran head-on into a pickup. Oh yeah, also, the pickup belonged to the county sherrif. Did I mention it was parked in front of the Police Station? To this day I can’t understand why they were so ticked when they came out to ‘collect’ us…heck, we delivered ourselves right to their front door! Unfortunately, it being friday night I had to spend the weekend in the local jail. When I went before the judge next monday (minor in possession, by consumption),and he found out I was one month away from legal drinking age, he just shook his head, gave me a $50 fine, and waived it. (Whew!) Twenty years later, I still laugh about this. Well, that’s my big dark secret, and my first post too! Hope you liked it. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@ChrisP\_One\_Kenobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisP_One_Kenobe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/63 "2000-07-15T01:40:03Z")
I’m honored that it could be here Coyote. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/64 "2000-07-15T02:07:25Z")
## C’mere, boy. Come to yore sugar daddy. 😉 Just kidding, LabyrinthCoyote. Welcome. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/65 "2005-01-24T04:26:48Z")
I think one of the keys to Brady’s greatness is his ability to throw some very difficult short passes better than anyone in the game. They can sustain drives time after time with a little 8-12 yard pass to the sidelines that he can execute almost at will. I am a Pats fan and agree that he isn’t flashy, he does though have the offense finely tuned to his strengths. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/66 "2005-01-24T04:27:59Z")
And this is in the wrong thread. Unless analyzing Tom Brady is a crime. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/67 "2005-01-24T15:48:01Z")
Okay, okay, I shouldn’t be contributing to this I know, but this HAS got to be the funniest resurrection of a nearly half decade old thread I have ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/68 "2005-01-24T16:13:58Z")
It was the weirdest thing. I went to reply to the Tom Brady thread, but when I got to the reply screen I realized my wife was logged in. I clicked log out, logged myself in and clicked to return to the screen I was viewing, I see a blank reply screen and compose my post and somehow it travelled back in time to this thread. It’s not like I was looking at this thread, or even knew it existed. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/69 "2005-01-24T16:54:36Z")
Are we counting things for which we were never caught? ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/70 "2005-01-24T17:10:26Z")
Arrrrrrrrr…braaaaaaaaaaaaaaainnnnnnssssssss… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/71 "2005-01-24T17:15:08Z")
I buried Jimmy Hoffa. Coincidentally, I am also the walrus. (Seriously? The worst thing I ever did? Um… jaywalking? _is so boringly non-criminal it’s sad_) ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/72 "2005-01-24T18:38:38Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > It was the weirdest thing. I went to reply to the Tom Brady thread, but when I got to the reply screen I realized my wife was logged in. I clicked log out, logged myself in and clicked to return to the screen I was viewing, I see a blank reply screen and compose my post and somehow it travelled back in time to this thread. It’s not like I was looking at this thread, or even knew it existed. Your wife found this thread because she was doing a search for “sodomy” and “crime”. [Nelson] Ha ha! [/Nelson] ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/73 "2005-01-24T19:16:33Z")
> [@oldscratch](#): > > Well jesus chrisp.And here we were all worried that you shot a man in reno just to watch him die. that’s kiddie stuff. Everyone does that. That’s why the population in Reno is only 1623. Err…1622…1621… ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/74 "2005-01-24T20:49:58Z")
Hmmmph. More than a few cases of assault (at least one on a police officer), too many drugs, drunk and disorderly, shoplifting, one case of assault which may have been construed as attemptrd murder but was not, nor was I arrested, criminal damage and a few other minors.☹ I should point out that I now refrain from all of these and I now am a good boy. Aside from drinking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/75 "2005-01-24T22:36:45Z")
> [@Gunslinger](#): > > Federal crimes: > too many explosive devices to count > removing a working catalytic converter from a car > > State & Local: > carrying a knife underage (I’m legal now) > carrying an illegal knife (switchblade) > some of those explosives were inside city limits > driving over 100 mph in a 70 zone > > Never caught at any of 'em. GASP!! I bet you also cut of the tags on pillows too!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/76 "2005-01-24T23:01:13Z")
[retorical question]who knew itr was a federal crime to file a change of address form and forward someone else’s to a cocktail lounge in sante fe, new mexico?[/retorical question} ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/77 "2005-01-25T01:25:54Z")
[**"Bumping" a Thread**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=1997121#post1997121) > [@](#): > > If you start a thread, and after a while think you would like more comments on it, you may be tempted to “bump” the thread by adding a post to make the thread reappear back at the top of the forum list. We **strongly discourage** this practice, but since the boards are so busy _sometimes_ a single “bump” will bring about good results. Our guidelines: > [list=A][li]Wait until a suitable time has elapsed (_at least_ until your thread is no longer visible on the first page of the forum)[/li][li]Bump your thread only once[/li][li]Do **not** make a habit of **always** bumping **each** of your threads.[/list][/li]When you bump your thread, it is preferrable to include additional information relevant to the original post, which may help encourage posters to respond. > > **What if I want to continue / add to the discussion on a topic that was mentioned in an old thread?** > > Start a new thread with a link to the old thread. A general guideline for “old” would be a thread older than three months. Do not do this again, **fruitbat**. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457/78 "2005-01-25T11:55:20Z")
This has to be the strangest software clitch I’ve ever seen. My apologies, **fruitbat**. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-crime-i-have-ever-committed-is/25457.md?page=3)