I remember when BART (SF Bay Area Transit with mag card readers) users figured out how to game the tickets. You heated a blank ticket and then pressed it with a $20 ticket and as the hot magnetics cooled it gave you two $20 tickets, repeat as often as desired.
It was a cleaver use of magnetization and it forced the BART system to go to a higher temp material that would erase the $20 ticket rather than allow it to be copied...
But we all understood that it was stealing even if the entity being cheated was something as disliked as a mass transit system.
Exactly. And you possibly would have pleaded ignorance to your parents had they confronted you?
I really loathe the "silly kids didn't know what they were doing" excuse.
Kids push the boundaries. Adults/parents gotta be the bad cops sometimes. Learn early before you go too far.
As a jury member, I was disgusted to hear the use of the same excuses.