Originally Posted by spladle29

I know, it looks and sounds terrible - so much worse than it actually was. To sum up the situation, I was a senior in high school in a car with some buddies and we ran out of gas. None of us had any money, so we had to park and wait for someone to come lend us a hand. We were about 45 minutes from our hometown, and it was hot out. Instead of sit in this packed car, me and another kid I was with got out and started walking to a mall that was about a block away. We took a shortcut through a parking lot to avoid a busy street, and next thing I knew (this was completely unexpected, and I had never been in a situation like this before) the kid I was with tried to open a car door and scrap change out of cupholders to get enough gas money to get us home. I kind of panicked and didn't know what to do, I stayed distant from him and did not touch anything but I did stay in the parking lot. Someone saw us and called police saying 2 kids were stealing out of cars. Cops came and arrested us. I never had to go to court, they reviewed surveillance tapes and pulled fingerprints from the car doors, and clearly found that I was not involved and the case was dismissed. But my record will forever have an attempted burglary charge on it, even if it is dismissed.