Parents definitely have to keep their children in check with reasonable punishments now and again.
Kids sometimes do pretty ridiculous and thoughtless things that need to be set straight. It's all part of being a good mom or dad.
But these 10 folks shared the strangest reasons that their parents had to punish them when they were young rapscallions. Whether the punishment was warranted or not varies from story to story. The common thread through all of these tales is that the "crime" at hand is so, so weird!
At the end of the day, you really just have to laugh, and thank your parents for putting up with all the silly things you did when you were younger.
What's the weirdest thing your parents ever punished you for? Do you think that you deserved what was served to you?
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1.
"I am an identical twin and once was sent to my room for 'pretending' I was me.
"I have never forgiven my father for this moment." – dmitri12s
2.
"Licking frosting off a cake. I laughed as my mother accused me, because I knew I didn't do it.
"When I finally saw the cake… there was absolutely no frosting left at all. I pleaded with my mom that there was no way I could be so methodical but she wouldn't hear it, and put me in a corner to think about what I had done.
"When the cat puked, everyone figured out what had happened." – tesseracter
3.
"In third grade, I stole the lunchbox of a girl I had a crush on and threw it on the roof of the school. I was such a ladies man." – chickelnoodensoup
4.
"I sneak into the kitchen and get to the box of ice cream sandwiches. Then a noise, I think I can hear them coming… so I stuff the last three sandwiches into the VCR and go to bed. So the next day Dad had put a tape into the VCR and creamy goodness decided to come out of the front of VCR. I got in so much trouble the when I woke up that morning. My mom still talks about it to this day." – damagicsausage
5.
"Me and the neighbor kids got in trouble for digging up our front yard. We were planning to dig a hole to hell and kill the devil.
In my defense, I was six years old." – infinitysnake
6.
"[A friend and I] ventured into his big sister's bedroom.
Finding what we took to be firecrackers in a drawer in her dresser we did what boys do with firecrackers. We took them outside, [lit] the fuses and gave them a fling into the yard. Soon, a dozen or more were all over the yard. The darn things just would not explode!
Unexpectedly his sister came home, Seeing the firecrackers all over the yard she became quite angry.
It seems they were not firecrackers." – rhoadesb2
7.
"Selling drawings of spaceships to younger children in exchange for precious and semiprecious stones. You read that right." – ccs29
8.
"One time my dad grounded me for putting too much sugar in the punch I was making for my friends." – slykens
9.
"In second grade I got suspended for writing a letter to my cat which was misinterpreted as a letter to the devil." – Geno098
10.
"I got grounded for getting 100% on a quiz once, because I didn't get the bonus question right." – this_time_i_mean_it
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