"...I'm just a very bad Wizard"

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A quote from the movie/musical The Wizard of Oz. http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/wizardofozthe/dingdongthewitchisdeadreprise.htm But I often feel that way about things around me. I look at something and think "that's a good - whatever - just not good for what its trying to do." I know people who are basically decent people, but they get into something they shouldn't and end up in trouble. One example. The roomie's nephew is a good kid. But when he would get over to his mother's place, she would go to work and leave him alone all day, and sometimes into the night - because she'd leave work and go drinking. So, he'd get bored. One time her then current boyfriend's son was over with a pellet gun. He talked the nephew to going outside and shooting it. Pretty soon, along come the police and they get in trouble for firing the pellet gun inside the city limits. Now, I don't know if the other kid knew it was against the law, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and say he didn't. Still, the nephew got in trouble. For a while there, EVERY time he went to his mother's he got in trouble, a lot of the time with this other kid, but sometimes on his own. For example, she was living at that time in a town that had a curfew after 9 p.m. for kids under 16. Well, again, he didn't know about this law, but along come the police and again he's in trouble, EVEN THO he was only out in the yard of her place. Now, where was his mom? Drinking. It got to the point where he was ONLY going to his mom's because he didn't want the fights with her when he didn't go. Then, last year, he got finally fed up and told her that he wasn't coming any more. He was right, she caused a good bit of grief right at first, but he stood his ground and told her that he didn't see the point in going over since she was NEVER THERE! Ya know, he's not been in trouble SINCE with the law. Oh, he's gotten called on the carpet from his grandparents, who he lives with, about not letting them know where he was a few times, but not like he was when he was visiting his mother. I'm sure you guys can tell me stories about how someone you know is basically decent, but somehow get in trouble. They get talked into things or go someplace they probably knew better than to go to. I've been pretty good for a while, I'd probably have to go back 10 years to find an example of my own, and with my bad memory, I can't think of anything off hand more recent. How about you? Can you think of an example - doesn't have to be your own if you don't want to fess up...