What's the dumbest thing you did as a teenager?

When I was 19 I was hanging out with a friend from school who I didn't really know all too well and his friend who I had never met before. Well we got pretty drunk at his apartment and around 1am we started walking along the train tracks behind his apartment. We only got about 1/4 mile and his friend thought it would be fun to throw rocks at all the postal trucks fenced in behind the post office. He just started trying the break the windshields like it was a game or something. My friend shortly joined it. I knew it was a terrible, stupid idea but my brain shut off all logical reasoning at that time. Like an idiot I got peer pressured to join in. We keep going at them for what seemed like 10-15mins. In the back of my mind I kept thinking "we've been here way too long, we need to leave, we need to leave now!!" Then BAM we're hit with a spot light from a cop car stopped on the tracks. We all freeze like deer caught in headlights for a few seconds then like we all bolt. I'm hit with an intense adrenaline rush and I run as fast as I can down the tracks gravel. I'm thinking to myself "just get to the apartment, get to the apartment!" I hear the cop car floor it and screech around the corner. Then I hear another ones engine revving from another direction. As I get to the street a third car screeches to a halt in front of me. It was like some crazy movie scene. Meanwhile the other two stooges are practically running in circles trying to back track. They actually ran into each other and fell down. When I saw that my reasoning came back to me and I just stopped and put my hands up to the 4 or 5 cops approaching with guns drawn. Did I mention the police station was literally like 1 block away from the post office? So fucking dumb. Also, my mom was randomly out of the state 3,000 miles away visiting her friend. My mom had left her number thankfully and I had put it in my wallet, you know like in case of emergencies type situations which you never think you'll need. I got through to her friend just enough to say "Hey, it's me...." and it immediately disconnected. Jerks at the jail shrugged and wouldn't let me try again. Spent the rest of the night in local jail unsure if I'd be bailed out or transferred to raped in the butt county jail. At one point I was in a small cell when about 40 transfers start filing in. Oh and postal trucks are federal property which made this a felony. Running from the police is also no joke. Bail was something like $11,000. My mom had to call her friend who lived in another city 40 miles away and do her a huge favor of bailing me out. When I got out I was greeted by my mom's friend and her daughter who was about 25yo and I'd never met before. When we were sorting out the bail documents her daughter proceeded to tear me a new one. Funny thing is her mom just sorta laughed and actually said "boys will be boys." Ended up getting them reduced down. Paid for damages and 200hrs community service. It still really affected me a lot. This was right before I was transferring to a 4-year uni. I still feel like an idiot for it.

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