Being a kid is all about mindless self-indulgence and tiny, meaningless acts of rebellion. And that's totally fine: Your wee child-brain hasn't even finished solidifying -- of course you're going to whine about having to clean up your room (and then rebelliously blast One Direction a little bit too loud when you're done). You're a 12-year-old outlaw. You cannot be contained. Besides, what are they gonna do about it? Arrest you?

5 Handcuffed for Doodling on a Desk

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The day began normally enough for Alexa: She was bored in class and decided to exert a little of her inner artist. She knew it wasn't permitted to draw on her desk, but it was either that or pay attention to math. Besides, to a child artist, all desks are just a canvas waiting for a heart with some initials (or at the very least a "Slayer" spelled with an anarchy sign). Alexa unsheathed her green magic marker and wrote "I love my friends Abby and Faith" and "Lex was here. 2/1/10." She ended this flagrant act of vandalism with a smiley face.

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There's an "A" in "Abby." At least make an attempt to do this right.

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That is by far the friendliest graffiti that has ever been laid down. That's what Mr. Rogers would encourage you to write if he found you in an alley holding a spray can. What's the worst that could come of simply noting that you exist, that you're happy, and that you love your friends -- all in erasable marker, no less?

Alexa was immediately arrested.

She was dragged out of class and straight to the police station, where she was put into an enclosed room and reportedly terror-puked during her interrogation. Alexa was then suspended from school and sentenced to eight hours of community service, where she presumably cleaned slightly less-friendly proclamations of love off of the side of a bowling alley.

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Nothing discourages graffiti like eight hours of looking at kickass, colorful street art.