Me too; I was once accused of breaking the school barometer, after some girl had said she had seen me tapping it. Ended up getting the strap (this was in Scotland) and I stormed home to tell my Dad. He just laughed and said “That’s for all the times you didn’t get caught!”

I was a bit puzzled by this and it turned out that he had been falsely accused at school as well. He cycled home and expected his father (who was a police detective sergeant) to arrest the head! Dad got the reply that he was to give me all those years later……:)