The perpetrators got away scot-free.

That didn't stop me from thinking bitterly that he'd got away scot-free.

"They are walking away scot-free and not admitting anything or taking any responsibility whatsoever," Mr. Rohrbough said.

"I got away scot-free," said Miles Southgate, a 30-year-old carpenter standing sadly in his socks in the lobby.

None of us gets away scot-free.

She said that had been his double and he'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him.

He adds that the best part of such encounters is coming home in a taxi, knowing that "I had a little adventure and I got away scot-free."

Charges are dropped, and Tanya walks away scot-free.

The police arrested more than 250 of the young hoodlums, but many times that number walked away scot-free.