'At the age of 11 I received a speeding ticket... on my bike': 20+ Nonsensical reasons people got in big trouble

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 6, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

I think everyone has at least one time they got in trouble for reasons that completely baffled them. As a kid, you put a lot of trust and faith in your teachers and parents. So when your favorite third-grade teacher suddenly punishes an 8-year-old you for doing something ordinary, it's quite confusing. It startles you and makes you question authority. Although the reasons make no sense to the kids involved, maybe the adults in the room are just having a bad day. Especially when the person is a teacher: there's no way you can monitor 25 kids for 40 hours per week and not mess up a few times. 

On the r/AskReddit subreddit, u/p09up asked, "What's the dumbest thing you've got in trouble for?" It must be a common enough occurrence, because more than 6,500 people replied with their own stories. Most happened when people were kids, but there were a few confused adults as well, like one person who was chastised by their driving instructor for going a single mile over the speed limit. 

After that, these resort coworkers kept trying to break into their workplace cage to get supplies, and after a while of trying, they decided to break in because "I was feeling petty and thought it'd be funny." 

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    What's the dumbest thing you've got in trouble for? 'In driver's education I was yelled at by the instructor for going 61 in a 60'
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    What's the dumbest thing you've got in trouble for?
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    Onimashu In third grade I yawned during a lecture and my teacher made me stand in the front of the class and apologize to everyone for disrespecting her and finding her class "boring". She also called my mom after class. I still don't really know why yawning was such a big deal.
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    ralo229 In second grade, a kid said he was gonna tell on me for whistling while washing my hands. I scoffed and said "Go ahead." And then for some reason, I actually got in trouble. ??????
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    Shelby1abby1 At the age of 11 I recieved a speeding ticket from a park ranger on my bike for going 17 in a 20...my mom who paid the $25 fine kept it.
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    SoMaqYort Correcting a teacher for saying my name wrong.
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    very_humble In drivers education I was yelled at by the instructor for going 61 in a 60, then told to speed up for only going 58, then told I was looking at the speedometer too much. All within a 2 minute span
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    dtestme Someone else copying my work without me knowing.
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    Bluebunny16 In fourth grade I got in trouble for "giving my teacher a dirty look." I had been trying to figure out a math problem (easily my weakest subject) and happened to look up when I was thinking. Got sent to the principals office when I told her it was just my face.
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    [deleted] In sixth grade, during recess I got permission to go inside. and use the bathroom. I pretended to be a spy on a secret mission and avoid being seen. A teacher saw me and chewed me out for 'acting suspicious'.
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    Everydaypsychop... Back in year 3 my mate Kyle was _ around with a ruler, placing one end into the crack between two tables and twanging it back and forth. On one of his twangs he twanged it a bit too hard and it came flying out the table and hit me in the eye, causing me to cry out in pain. I got detention, Kyle did not.
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    [deleted] I recently got in trouble for asking my coworker to not take an extra 15 minute break every single hour to watch tv. We do discharge cleanings in a hospital - she likes to finish the discharge, close the room's door and watch tv/drink coffee. I reported her and we both. got written up.
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    polkfang Somebody asked me in 4th grade what word rhymes with duck and starts with an f. I said and then he ran off and told a teacher. I've never been baited harder in my whole life.
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    [deleted] When I was in 6th grade, my best friend and I were placed in opposite corners of the room because we were always causing trouble together. One day, while I was minding my own business in my corner, my clever friend flipped over a
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    chair next to him and yelled out "come on, BoboHodo....." I got sent out of the classroom.
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    alate9 I worked at a zoo for a number of years. It was my job to make sure all the animals in my care had been cleaned, fed, watered and locked before I left for the day. Pretty standard. My boss was in upper management. She had a lot of meetings and such she went to every day. There were days when I didn't see
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    her at all. No big deal. On one of these days I had just gotten finished buttoning up and was getting ready to leave for the day when she got out of a meeting and asked to feed one of the animals. Uh... if that was something you wanted to do you needed to communicate it to me more than 5 minutes before the
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    end of my work day. So my team and I got screamed at for not saving something for her to do because she'd had a really crappy day in meetings and all she wanted to do was feed this one animal. I quit a few months later.
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    axel_mcthrashin Third grade. They'd just installed this giant spiral tube slide in the school playground. Everyone wanted to try it, so there was a line. After my turn, I yelled into the slide, "You're the next contestant on the Price is Right." I had to stand and face a fence pole for the rest of recess.
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    Scoob1978 My brother broke the window practicing golf. I was inside playing Contra. I got grounded for not watching him. He was 9 and in the backyard.
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    Long_arm_of_the... I literally did nothing. One of my teachers in middle school told me to go to detention because they were looking for me. It turns out she mistook me for another student with the same name. I spent maybe 3 hours in detention.
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    dollfaise My husband got a new tattoo a few years ago, his second. My mom asked how his mom felt about that and I said, "Well he's an adult so it doesn't matter, she hasn't commented." Somehow this devolved into her saying he's likely more respectful than I am, he probably got his tattoo somewhere he
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    could hide it, while I'd plaster one on my forehead to be contrary. She was absolutely furious with me. I don't have any tattoos.
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    SureExperience I got kicked out of a bar when I tipped with a handful of change. But it was just change that had probably spilled out of a patrons pockets since it was piled up under a stool. I just thought the tip jar was a better place for it than the floor. I had already tipped for my drink.
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    DevilsAppetite I was grounded for a week for calling a PT Cruiser a PT Loser.
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    Chopstick-Ninja In elementary school, I was wiggling a loose tooth at my desk and it inevitably popped out. I didn't want to sit at my desk sucking blood and making a mess, so I raised my hand and asked my teacher if I could go to the bathroom or the nurse to clean it up. She got super I and said I was acting out and interrupting her lesson. Lost recess for the
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    day. So I sat there and then got yelled at about 30 minutes later for getting blood on the desk. I had to clean it up, lost recess for the rest of the week and had to write my name 500 times as punishment while everyone else got to go and play.
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    She also accused me of making up a fake disease when I told her I had Crohn's Disease and that's why I was sick so often after lunch. The feeling of satisfaction when I marched us to the principal to have him tell her she was wrong was the highlight of my childhood.
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    Moobyghost Christian School, Parkway Academy, 7th grade. Got a detention for moving my hair from one side to the other for "an act of Vanity" after the teacher caught me looking at a girl and adjusting my hair.
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    BackDimplez My brother used to steal my families things and hide them in my room, even after my parents knew it was him I would get in trouble because I allowed it to happen, as if I could stop him.
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    El_Capitano_MC In primary school I got an in school detention because the teacher said I drank too much water and could have drowned. this was back in like 1999 and I'm still upset about it.
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    freedom-mp3 1 2nd grade, I had this ridiculously mean teacher. I was a good student and never really got in trouble, but.. When she used to read to us in the front of the classroom, if a student was misbehaving, she'd send them to the back and the other students used to
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    watch them walk to the back and go, "oooOooo." One time, someone got in trouble and I felt bad for him, so I didn't heckle him like the kids usually did. I ended up getting in trouble for not making fun of him! That made zero sense to me!
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    quaintweirdo when I was 13 there was this teacher that absolutely HATED ME but the thing is no one believed me because he used to be one of the most loved teachers of our school by pretty much everyone "you are just exaggerating" they said. Anyway, we were in class and he decided to make us read a chapter of a book and
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    write a small essay over it. Lil ol me, accidentally dropped his pencil during class, and I decided to grab it from the floor (literally took me 5 seconds). The teacher then decided to give me detention because I was "disrupting the class" but I wasn't gonna deal with that bs, told him the truth that I was just grabbing my pencil and nothing more (I wasn't being combative from what I can recall) "Oh really?" He
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    said "well now you are going to the principal office for talking back and I'll ask her to suspend you" I couldn't believe it. Thankfully some of my friends and other classmates backed me up saying that I did nothing more than grabbing my pencil, he decided to stepped down and just let me go with a warning. From then on everyone believed me when I said he had it against me, 10 years have
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    passed since then and I still remember. Note: He actually got FIRED from the school because his degree was fake, and I was 19 when I found out, it still gives me a smile. you Mr. Jorge you.
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    L81r86Linrick Sneezing, I got put on punishment for two weeks because I scared my mothers boyfriend when I sneezed!! I hate you Mark!!
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    montagr My wife worked herself into a frenzy because she had it in her head that I wouldn't let her see her family during the holidays. She was furious. I'd never said any such thing or hinted at anything like that. I'd even agreed to arranging plans with them because her sister was coming out of town. I was literally just sitting there while she had
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    this whole conversation with herself and slowly getting more upset with me. Then she got more upset when I started laughing because it was so ridiculous. I finally talked her down off the ledge because she was going way too far. She's good now, just had a weird moment there.
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    fer... My dad ran off with my mom's best friend, Charlene. A couple of years later, 6th grade me was sent to live with them. There was no way I was ever going to forgive my new stepmom, but what power does a kid have? My best weapon was constantly singing Dolly Parton's song Jolene, but
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    using 'Charlene' instead. "Charlene, Charlene, Charlene, Charlee-ee-eene, I'm begging of you please don't take my man" She found backhanded ways to get me back but it was so worth it.
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