Friend of mine snagged his mom's car keys when she was passed out drunk one night. He was 15, and I was 16. As my mom died driving drunk in a car with me 4 years prior to that, I wasn't really into this whole idea, but I went along as a passenger. We spun out in the grass around my apartment complex, had some fun and stuff, but...eventually, friend smashed into a tree, did about three grand in damage to the car. In today's dollars, that was probably like ten grand, the car was quite fucked up.

Neither of us were hurt, but when I got out of the car and saw the damage, I decided that I wasn't going to spend the night at his house after all. I left him alone to deal with his mom; he totally understood too, as it wasn't like I was gonna contribute much to the conversation.

He got grounded for several months, AND his mom made him pay off the car damage when he turned 16, which took him two years.