AT 12YO I WAS GUILTY AS GUILTY CAN BE BUT, PASSED POLYGRAPH TEST W FLYING COLOURS. :-0

That was many years ago,the good ole days as I'm an old fart going on 51 lol.

Anyway here's the story.

I am originally from west Palm beach fl.
I was born and raised in the very deep country at least at that time and nearest neighbors were over a mile away.

There was no PlayStations or the like, we'll maybe the game PONG came around at that time??

So friends were a mile away and we had bikes to go back and forth and then Honda 70 motorcycles we all ended up w them for Xmas presents.

We were always outside as being stuck inside in south Florida was as if was taboo and rarely were we home at dinner and usually came in after sundown.

Well where I lived there was 10 acres of land with a nice lake on it that we used to swim at a lot.

Well one day I came home from school and noticed a loud sound at the back of our property and walked back there and noticed a big d-10 caterpillar Dozer clearing the land w that nice lake on it.
Well I immediately called one of my friends and he came over w in an hour and we watched as the land was being cleared off and I especially was pissed as I grew up w that lake and the woods it was on and never thinking that it would ever be taken away and was sad seeing it being dozed away.

A couple days went by and noticed that the dozer was starting to fill in the pretty lake, OH I WAS PISSED and talked some more to my best friend and told him lets go one night and put that dozer in the lake.

Well one night at around 11:30 I got my flashlight and we went to the dozer.
Well I hotwired it and had it up and running w in two minutes.

Remember I might only have been 12yo but as said grew up in the country and was actually driving one of my parents old cars at 9yo and for several years afterwards and drove it all over in the woods for miles at a time and gas was only 25-30 cents a gallon (again,the good ole days lol)
As noted, no PlayStations etc then and if the car broke down like an alternator or waterpump I would easily fix it myself and think nothing of it along w lawnmowers etc.

Ok,back to the dozer.
As said I hotwired it and drove it around w my friend for prolly ten mins.
Then I told him to jump off and it's going into the lake.
So I aimed the dozer at the lake and jammed the two drive sticks forward and jumped off of it and we stood there and watched it go into the lake and it sunk down and died with just the top of its roof sticking out about two foot.

Well we accomplished that feat and we both went home

Next day I noticed the cops were there and the next day two detectives pulled into our driveway as I was mowing our yard.
They came up to me and asked me if I knew about what happened and of course I said no.
Well they drilled me a little and said they knew w out a doubt that I did it and asked me if I would take a polygraph test and I said sure, so my parents had to take me to the sheriff's dept where they took me in a room and sat me in a chair and hooked up me up to the polygraph machine.
It looked no different than what u see on crime shows today.
Well I took the test and the end results were I was cleared w no deception noted and detectives apologized and back home I went lol.

Well that was it and never heard anymore about it.
Just goes to show that if a 12yo can be guilty as guilty as can be and clearly pass a polygraph then can u c why many can truly be innocent and the polygraph says opposite which can throw many behind bars for years?

I am not gloating about what I did as it was very very WRONG!!

Just making a point that polygraph machines are not in anyway 100% accurate at all and prolly many innocent are found guilty and many guilty are found innocent using these machines in a case!

Thanks for reading my little TRUE story and never trust a polygraph!