Duct Tape and an Expunged Juvenile Record

The names in this story have been changed to protect the innocent, although none of the participants were innocent, but still...
Once upon a time there were four boys, Boy 1, and Boy 2 are brothers, Boy 3 and Boy 4 are friends, the four boys have known each other almost their entire lives. They are life long friends the kind of friendship that outlasts and survives all things, the kind of friendship that does the heart good.
One night they decide to go out and do something " memorable ". They decide to duct tape the doors to a random car. Not to do any damage but to make it impossible for the car's owner to get in. They pick a place where they believe they have an easy get away route, through what they think is woods. In reality it is a small group of trees, but I didn't say they had great criminal minds. They park a get away car on the other side of the " woods ". They pick a random car, duct tape the doors shut, not just a piece of tape over the door, no not these master criminals, they tape over and under to make it really " funny ", and wait in the "woods" for the owner to come out. The owner, a girl, comes out with some friends, they try to get in the car and realize what has happened and they hear the " master criminals " laughing in the " woods ". A guy that was with the girl runs into the " woods " after the " master criminals", so the four boys start running to the get away car. Boy 1 says that he can't make it, it's too far, he starts fading back, his brother Boy 2, goes back for him. The guy chasing them keeps coming, so Boy 2 charges at him screaming so Boy 1 can get away. The guy backs off and the four Boys make it to the get away car when they realize that Boy 3, the get away car driver has lost the car keys somewhere in the " woods ". And they hear police sirens. They decide to run and hide behind a house, all four boys are hiding behind this house while the police are going door to door. The four boys can't believe how many police cars showed up, more than they thought the town they lived in even had. It was later that they would learn the girl whose car doors they had duct taped was the daughter of the former police chief. While hiding behind a house they decide to get rid of any incriminating evidence, that lucky home owner would find 3 almost brand new rolls of duct tape in his backyard. The police leave the street that they are hiding on so they come out " quietly " to try to find an escape route, they run through the yard and Boy 1 crashes through a row of tomato plants with tomato stands and Boy 4 crashes through a fence and all four boys " quietly " run through piles of leaves. They decide to split up since they believe the police are looking for four boys Boy 3 and Boy 4 decide to walk straight out toward the main street and walk right past the police. Boy 1 and Boy 2 think that's crazy, they are going to go through the back yards to get to the other side of town. Boy 3 and Boy 4 walk right past the police, no questions asked. Boy 1 and Boy 2 start making their way through the back yards, they came to a yard that is fenced and Boy 2 goes to help Boy 1 over the fence and Boy 1 says " no that's one scary looking back yard ". Boy 2 tries to persuade him to go anyway, Boy 1 refuses. Boy 1 says that is a scary back yard, Boy 2 says not as scary as getting arrested but still Boy 1 refuses. So Boy 1 and Boy 2 decide they will do the same thing Boy 3 and Boy 4 did except they will turn right instead of left, Boy 3 and Boy 4 turned left. As Boy 1 and Boy 2 are walking down the street a police car cruises up to them, the officer asks them where they are going, they say 7 -11 to get a slurpy. The officer asks them where they live, they tell him, he says that's a long walk for a slurpy, Boy 1 says well we like slurpy's. While that officer is talking to them another officer comes up behind them and pat's down Boy 2. Remember earlier when I said that lucky homeowner was going to find 3 rolls of duct tape, that's because Boy 2 kept his roll of duct tape in his pocket because he didn't want to waste a perfectly good roll of duct tape, ( his father would be so proud ). So upon finding this evidence the police promptly arrested Boy 2, while Boy 1 was begging them to take him instead of his brother. The police hand cuffed Boy 2 and put him in the back of a police car and drove off. Boy 1 was panicked he started running home to get his car to go get his brother before his father found out. As Boy 1 was running home he came upon Boy 3 and Boy 4 who were walking straight towards where there was still police cars so Boy 1 said turn around Boy 2 just got arrested. Boy 1 ran all the way home, pushed his car out of the driveway so that his father didn't hear it start and drove to the police station. While Boy 1 was doing that Boy 2 was riding in the back of a police car when it stopped at a red light in a not so good part of town. Boy 2 looked out the window and standing " free " on the street was a person known to be of a criminal nature looking in the police car at Boy 2. Boy 2 and the known criminal just looked at each other and Boy 2 thought whats wrong with this picture I'm in here and your out there. The known criminal smiled at Boy 2 as if he was thinking the very same thing. At the police station the officer sat Boy 2 down on a bench and cuffed him to it. When the officer walked away Boy 2 raised his arm and realized that the officer had not cuffed him to the bench at all and he was free. He said he thought of running but asked the officer if he was going to call his father, the officer said no your brother can come get you, so once Boy 2 realized that his father would not be called he felt clam and showed the officer that he had not actually cuffed him to anything. Boy 1 got to the station and the officer gave Boy 2 an appearance ticket for criminal mischief and set him loose. All four boys met to decide what to do, they decided that they would handle it on there own, since they'd done such a good job so far, what's the worse that could happen? They returned to the scene of the crime to locate Boy 3's get away car keys and went home. The next morning the mother of Boy 1 and Boy 2 sensed that something was wrong she actually asked " what happened last night, did somebody get arrested? " Boy 1 would later say that his mother must have some sort of power, she may even be a witch how else could she have guessed something had happened? Well it all came out while Boy 2 was driving his fathers truck and drove right through a red light and his father said pull over your mother was right what happened and Boy 2 spilled his guts. Boy 2 and his father went home and told the mother, she laughed and said really all of that over some duct tape? Boy 2's court appearance date came and he and his father went, his father told Boy 1 to stay home. The Judge heard the complaint stated by the very serious police officer and the Judge laughed and said " you have to be kidding me all of this over some duct tape ". The Judge then told Boy 2 that his record would be expunged if he stayed out of trouble for 6 months, which he did.
Boy 1, Boy 2, Boy 3 and Boy 4 have told this story and laughed about it so many times but it was the beginning and the end of their life of crime.
Moral of this story: Crime doesn't pay... or...
Get rid of the evidence even if it's a perfectly good roll of duct tape.