What a waste!!

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Originally Posted by Blu Mongoose

Woke up this morning and went outside. My girlfriends new jeep liberty was majorly trashed. For about 3 blocks apparently some kids took large rocks and everything they could get their hands on and trashed several vehicles. We had to have it towed and go thru all the hassle with police, insurance and car rental.:taz:

I can't stand the way most kids are allowed to run the streets these days. I brought mine up telling them, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out". Never would have followed thru with it, but respect for the property of others was well ingrained. I hate living in the city and have less use for a large part of society as time goes on.

What ever happened to kindness and respect? I know there were bad people before, but let's face it, it is scary when people look at you funny for saying thank you or holding the door for a stranger. I actually had a woman yell at me for holding a door open. Told me she could get it herself!!:confused:

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Now that is just plain old BS :mad:.I would love a hour with the little punks,because you know all they will get is a slap on the wrist when they get caught :mad:.I know exactly how you feel about others,i kinda hate people also.I had a old man pull out in front of me and he flipped me off :mad:,i HATE ignorant people.Where are the manners people used to have for others :mad:.

Are you sure that it was kids that did it? There are some darned moronic "adults" who act like kids, I know that for sure :( It if were stupid kids, I bet that they videotaped it and posted it on myspace or something.
At any rate that is a crappy thing for you two to hafta go through. I am ashamed to be human sometimes :(

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That really sucks man. Hopefully they get caught and a judge doesn't go too lightly on them. I see you're in Rockford. When I lived in Westmont a family moved into an apartment across the street from me from the Westside projects. They were evicted after 3 weeks, but in that time, they and their friends slashed tires, robbed and vandalized 73 cars on my block, and pretty much just f*ed things up every night while they lived there. They even poured Muriatic acid all over a bunch of cars and put a corvette on blocks and stole the wheels. For one apartment, I swear there were at least 15 kids from a few months - 21 years old staying there, and about 10-15 tweens hanging out front every night. I think we need to start looking to Singapore when it comes to punishing vandals, punks and thugs like this. On NYE when I was 19 we caught a few guys slashing my friend's tires. They were driving a new Monte Carlo themselves. Let's just say they and their whip didn't make it home safely. :O

The best was when my brother-in-law on the Southside caught a group of gangbangers spray painting Latin King graffiti on his fence. He went out and threatened them, then told them to come back that Saturday to paint over it, or he'd go to where they hangout and kill them. They all showed up and painted his whole fence and washed my sister's car. :cool:

Oh man what a total bummer.

You are right, kids (as well as some adults) have no respect anymore.

No one teaches their kids consequences anymore, even the courts give them a slap on the wrist.

I did things when I was a teenager that my mom would have reemed me for, but I never disrespected someone else, or their property.

I will tell ya, if I EVER catch my kids or find out that they have done something like that. They better hope the cops catch them first... thats what my grandfather used to say to me. He'd also say, it wouldn't be wise to call me from jail. You will sit there and think about what you did.

Kids just aren't held accountable for their actions anymore.

I blame the parents who are so afraid of their children and I blame society for allowing children the weapon of calling Deyfus or other child services. dont get me wrong, child services has its place in our societ, but when children know that they can wield it as a weapon against their parents that just sends a red flag up in my head. My 10 year old has received the "I brought in I'll take you out" speech.. and in public too. I've gotten looks but so far no one has made a comment to me. As far as Im concerned it was good enough for me, its good enough for my kids. all those violent video games and tv shows out there that kids can watch doesn't help them either. as a society we've become desensitiized to violent actions in general. and thats a shame. okay, I've ranted enough. sorry about your gf's car and hope you get some justice done in your favor.

The problem is parents have had their recourse removed. When you messed up as a kid what was your biggest fear? DADS BELT. Over the last generation parents and kids have been told that punishment is not excitable. As a side effect of that kids have figured out that if mom and dad won't "Really Punish" me and the law won't touch me till I'm 18 where is my incentive to not bust that car up, or shoot paint balls out car windows. The big thing here is for kids to drop 30lbs concrete blocks off over passes late at night as car drive under them.

Saw a news story this morning; 15 year old kid steal a 55,000.00 car and leads police on a 45 minute high speed chase. When he wrecks the car he jumps out and runs. As he is running away he turns and "Fires 9 shots at police" critically wounding one officer and was shot and killer by the other. Now heres the kicker. he mom is on T.V crying at the loss of her child (as she should be). Her response to the incident "Had the police not been chasing him he wouldn't have gotten scared and felt like he needed to defend himself against them. Thats why he shot at them cause he was scared and felt threatened"

Threatened my ASS.

When we as a society refuse to punish for actions like this we may as well pass out the bricks ourselves. We have been told that punishment and failure as children may cause low self esteem and cause further problems later in life. Ok fine we tried that and not having it cause problems sooner in life.

Should parents be held responsible? Why would you blame the parent for their children's actions but not let them respond to those actions in a disciplinary manner. It would be like putting a double arm amputee in the boxing ring with Sugar Ray and then scratching your head when he gets his ass beat.

that's really awful...

...i don't even know what to say.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

The problem is parents have had their recourse removed. When you messed up as a kid what was your biggest fear? DADS BELT. Over the last generation parents and kids have been told that punishment is not excitable. As a side effect of that kids have figured out that if mom and dad won't "Really Punish" me and the law won't touch me till I'm 18 where is my incentive to not bust that car up, or shoot paint balls out car windows. The big thing here is for kids to drop 30lbs concrete blocks off over passes late at night as car drive under them.

Saw a news story this morning; 15 year old kid steal a 55,000.00 car and leads police on a 45 minute high speed chase. When he wrecks the car he jumps out and runs. As he is running away he turns and "Fires 9 shots at police" critically wounding one officer and was shot and killer by the other. Now heres the kicker. he mom is on T.V crying at the loss of her child (as she should be). Her response to the incident "Had the police not been chasing him he wouldn't have gotten scared and felt like he needed to defend himself against them. Thats why he shot at them cause he was scared and felt threatened"

Threatened my ASS.

When we as a society refuse to punish for actions like this we may as well pass out the bricks ourselves. We have been told that punishment and failure as children may cause low self esteem and cause further problems later in life. Ok fine we tried that and not having it cause problems sooner in life.

Should parents be held responsible? Why would you blame the parent for their children's actions but not let them respond to those actions in a disciplinary manner. It would be like putting a double arm amputee in the boxing ring with Sugar Ray and then scratching your head when he gets his ass beat.

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I completely agree, and I hate hearing stories like this. It's really sad that they are pretty common place these days. Bring back the belt! I think parents should be held responsible to a point, with a minimum of parenting classes. I got the belt, but if I didn't, I'm sure I would have after my parents returned home from a mandatory parenting class they had to sit through because I was a jerk.