State: New Jersey
City: Clifton
Age: 16
Here's the deal. I was walking around with my friends yesterday. One of them says something about climbing somewhere, so he wants us to follow him. Before we know it, he starts climbing some building's roof (It's not that high, obviously). He finally climbs up, and wants my other friend to do the same. My other friend starts climbing, but he loses his balance. To keep him from falling while he gets up there, I hold his leg. He finally gets up, and they want me to go up also. To tell you the truth, I don't really have a good history with roofs. Once I fell off my own roof and nearly broke my arm. Anyway, I say I don't want to, and sit down on the floor.
About 5-10 minutes later, this kid walks in front of us. One of my friends calls his name. The kid (he's 17) gets closer to the wall my friends climbed and ask them what the hell they're doing up there. After my friend answers, the kid and I walk towards the sidewalk. While we're walking, some police car stops next to us, watches my friends run, and puts the handcuffs on OUR hands. He pushes us into the police car and goes out to look for my friends. He calls another cop and they both climb the wall with a ladder. My friends are nowhere. They stop looking for my friends and takes us to the station.
After staying in the station for a good 2 hours, our parents come to pick us up. The cop tells my parents that the court is going to mail us. Now the kid and I have to go to court for something we didn't do. I'm guessing they're making such a big deal out of this because they think my friends were doing something bad and we were helping them. Now my question is, can I get out of all this without going to juvenile hall or something? Because one of my friends' mother called last night after I got home and said sorry about all this. And I told my friend to tell the judge or whoever to say I had nothing to do with it. If we prove it wasn't me and it was my friends who were up on that roof, do you think they'll let me go, and give my friends community service or something? They weren't doing anything bad up there, just sitting.
What's going to happen to me?
I'm an idiot for having such friends. I don't want to sound like a preacher but choose your friends carefully.
City: Clifton
Age: 16
Here's the deal. I was walking around with my friends yesterday. One of them says something about climbing somewhere, so he wants us to follow him. Before we know it, he starts climbing some building's roof (It's not that high, obviously). He finally climbs up, and wants my other friend to do the same. My other friend starts climbing, but he loses his balance. To keep him from falling while he gets up there, I hold his leg. He finally gets up, and they want me to go up also. To tell you the truth, I don't really have a good history with roofs. Once I fell off my own roof and nearly broke my arm. Anyway, I say I don't want to, and sit down on the floor.
About 5-10 minutes later, this kid walks in front of us. One of my friends calls his name. The kid (he's 17) gets closer to the wall my friends climbed and ask them what the hell they're doing up there. After my friend answers, the kid and I walk towards the sidewalk. While we're walking, some police car stops next to us, watches my friends run, and puts the handcuffs on OUR hands. He pushes us into the police car and goes out to look for my friends. He calls another cop and they both climb the wall with a ladder. My friends are nowhere. They stop looking for my friends and takes us to the station.
After staying in the station for a good 2 hours, our parents come to pick us up. The cop tells my parents that the court is going to mail us. Now the kid and I have to go to court for something we didn't do. I'm guessing they're making such a big deal out of this because they think my friends were doing something bad and we were helping them. Now my question is, can I get out of all this without going to juvenile hall or something? Because one of my friends' mother called last night after I got home and said sorry about all this. And I told my friend to tell the judge or whoever to say I had nothing to do with it. If we prove it wasn't me and it was my friends who were up on that roof, do you think they'll let me go, and give my friends community service or something? They weren't doing anything bad up there, just sitting.
What's going to happen to me?
I'm an idiot for having such friends. I don't want to sound like a preacher but choose your friends carefully.