JamesCoste
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2003
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When I was about 15, I was a follower of a group of boys older than me. We lived in Germany on a military base. The boys I hung out with had several bad experiences with the law and my parents warned to about them, but I didn't listen.<br /><br />We would jump the "fence" (complete with barbed wire) and go cow-tipping in the adjacent fields.<br /><br />We would smoke cigarettes too.<br /><br />One day, we snuck into our school in a science lab (a portable building) and clogged the lab sinks with TP and turned on the water. We then stole a bunch of lab chemicals and proceeded over the fence to see what happened when we burned them. <br /><br />Well, to make a long story short, we got caught. <br /><br />The bad!<br />I had to face the base commander with my Dad, who could have lost a "stripe" due to my behavior.<br /><br />The worse!<br />My mom was the base commander's secretary.<br /><br />My punishment was 40 hours of community service. I scraped paint off of the floor of some office buildings for 32 hours and then had to sell popcorn in the stands of a rodeo that came to the base. That was humiliating. My friends had to go to juveline camp since it was their 3rd strike.<br /><br />Oh yeah, the real punishment came from my Dad. I won't describe it -- simply too painful.