What‘s the most f*cked up thing a family member of yours has done? #askreddit #reddit #stories #outsmarted

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00:00What's the most effed up thing a family member of yours has done?

00:03My dad's a consummate prankster.

00:04His crowning achievement in college has since become illegal in two states.

00:08Step 1.

00:09He and several buddies go to a Cadillac dealership at 5 o'clock on a Friday.

00:13This was before credit cards and automatic banking by the way.

00:15Step 2.

00:16They wrote a check for the asking price of one of the shiny new models and drove off

00:19with it.

00:20Step 3.

00:21They sell the car at a used Cadillac dealership across town.

00:24Step 4.

00:25The used dealer calls the new dealer and tells him that the car was sold with the dealer

00:28plates still on, and the price tag still in the window.

00:31Step 5.

00:32New dealer figures that the check the kids wrote is going to bounce, so he calls the

00:35cops.

00:36Step 6.

00:37My dad and his friends spend the weekend in jail.

00:39Step 7.

00:40The banks open Monday morning, the check doesn't bounce.

00:43Step 8.

00:44My dad and his friends sue the dealers in the state for wrongful imprisonment, and get

00:47a settlement of thousands of dollars more than the cost of the car.

00:50Basically, the plan was to seem as shady as possible and get wrongfully arrested for it.

00:54They had the lawyer set up before they bought the car, dad used his share to pay for his.

00:58and another friend's tuition for the year.