Kids these days

So last night was fun me and the Mrs were awoken by 3 Jefferson County sherriff dept officers last night at 4:00 AM. We go outside and an officer starts explaining whats going on and then he shines his mag light on the back of my car and I see this :shock:

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Turns out one other person on our street got a window busted out 3 more cars in a subdivision across the street from us got it. I was sweeping up glass in front of our house today and one of the guys who got hit from the other subdivision was riding his motorcycle down the street looking to see if anybody else had got hit.

He stopped and we talked he said besides the 3 cars in his subdivision and the 2 in mine (including mine) a couple more on the street that seperates our subdivisions got it too. :evil:

Just really makes me cranky Oh well I guess it's Karma kicking me in the fanny for all the dumb stuff I did when I was a teenager.

Yikes! That's gotta hurt.

yeah, kids can be real bastards these days. <---- (does not apply to all kids) ;)
what ever happened to just a few eggs or toilette paper??? i hope you have insurance. sad thing is it happens almost nightly in our apartments, but they take car stereos in the act of breaking the windows.

I can remember back just a few years to high school...we had our fun with toilet paper pranks but never did any permanent damage...thats just messed up.

As part of my high schools homecoming shinanigans, the week leading up to the homecoming game was juniors vs. seniors, toilet papering each others houses. Everyone who went to the school lived in one of two otherwise enclosed communities, so it was a blast with everyone out toiletpapering houses. The police actually used to patrol to try and stop it, but parents complained because no one was hurting anything and their kids were getting vandalism charges, so the police stopped. I would want to go back to high school if it wasn't for the actual school part.

Wow, sorry to hear that man. I hope they get the kids who did that.

Well we are finding out bits and pieces of information. It looks like they nailed some mailboxes in a new subdivision thats just up the road as well. Which if they get caught (which they probably won't) is a felony Federal offense if I'm not mistaken.

ding dong ditch is so much more fun,and safer too ;) sorry to hear about your car.

ding dong ditch? i hope i just don't know what that is for general reasons and not because i'm too old. (not that i'm that old.) :shock:

MacWin.......I know how you feel. Several years ago I had my windows shot out of my car. They did it with a sling shot and ball-bearrings. The bad thing is, the Police knew who did it but never arrested or prosecuted them. The only good thing about it is, is that they knew that I knew who did it and I never saw them near my property again....Good thing it was just my work car or I may have had to go mid evil on them. lol

Ding dong ditch my kids explained to me is knocking on someones door, or ringing the bell, and running off. I know I use to do this but not by that name. But we allways added a little spice to it. Fill a paper bag with dog doo and light it on fire and watch from across the street while they stomp it out.....

oooh yes. the flaming bag of doggie poo. now that's ringing some bells.

i used to like driving down the street with the megaphone and saying random things to people.. nothing too mean though.. just funny... also.. getting loads of gay porn and tossing them to people walking down the street.. the reactions are priceless.... especialy military mens reactions.. do not do this to young kids. they are under 18, and it is illegal to show em porn.

Water ballooning :) We had a homemade launcher in college that would shoot a water balloon about 250-300 yards depending on whether or not Marco gave it his all ;) Frozen ones went even further :shock::twisted::

a few months ago, a couple of my friends and I were cruising around the streets at about 2 a.m...not looking for trouble..we out grew it a while back...but we were just..cruising...i was in the back seat of my friends drop-top Camero, when we heard a thud on the car...we thought it was a stick or something we hit. well we turned around just to see what it was..just to be sure.....and on the way back, i saw a rock soaring towards my head.....lucky for me, it put a huge crack in the windshield...if it would have hit me, it would have split my head wide open...it was a couple of little bastard kids throwing rocks at cars at about 2 in the morning...we had spot lights out looking for the kids..they got away...they should feel lucky

thats messed up. water ballons were one thing. pop water.. nobig deal.. but rocks... ouch!.

LOL! Some of that stuff is . . . troubling Kon ;) When we lived overseas (Delhi) in the early 80s we would sneak into the Soviet Embassy and "borrow" their diplomatic license plates hehe.

the world is going to 'hell in a bucket'!
we had a string of car break-ins in our subdivision as well, didn't break windows, but ransacked and stole what they could out of a bunch of cars up and down the street (we've since moved, but not b/c of that)...don't understand why kids are becoming increasingly violent natured, very discouraging! Oh well, at least I'm trying to raise mine to be decent and hopefully will only do the 'normal' stupid teenage things....sorry about your car, poor little VW!

I HATE THAT CRAP. YOU CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE WITHOUT SOMEONE MESSING IT UP. THAT MAKES ME SO MAD. Last summer by brother-in-law was hit by a brick that was thrown into their bedroom window at like 3am. They threw 2 bricks the first one put a hole in the siding the second one went in their window caught the curtains and hit my brother-in-law while it was wrapped in the curtain but it split his nose open and gave him a black eye.

OUCH! That's awful and while he was sleeping, what a way to be woken up....I'll never understand why human nature seems to be, for lack of a better term, evil. The older I get, the more cynical I become, guess that bumper sticker was right, People do SUCK! Thank goodness there's still some decent people in this world or I'd lose all faith in humanity! Just seems like the evil ones outnumber the decent ones by a landslide....like I said, hell in a bucket.

How do you even know it was kids?
Since no one was caught you can't really say "Kids these days"
Maybe the old folks at the retirement home got out again for their late night looting.

I hate it when they get all wired on Geritol and go on those rampages.

Your right I am assuming it was kids but how many "adults" that you know go out tearing up personal property.

Mmm... when I was a teenager, it was all about "Scooby Doo-ing". Basically, first you get really really baked. Then, you tiptoe around people's houses doing the scooby doo walk (you know, with your hands out forward and whole body moving back and forth as you creep forward, like the scooby doo gang would do in haunted mansions), and look at people through their windows until they looked back at you. Then you would run like hell.

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Mmm... when I was a teenager, it was all about "Scooby Doo-ing". Basically, first you get really really baked. Then, you tiptoe around people's houses doing the scooby doo walk (you know, with your hands out forward and whole body moving back and forth as you creep forward, like the scooby doo gang would do in haunted mansions), and look at people through their windows until they looked back at you. Then you would run like hell.

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ROFLMAO ... never done or heard of that. Does it work while you're drunk .. never gotten into anything but alcohol.

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Originally Posted by MacWin

Your right I am assuming it was kids but how many "adults" that you know go out tearing up personal property.

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I'm sure theres adults out there that would tear up personal property.

How many kids do you personally know that would do this?!

lmao...blink..funny

yeh that rock that got thrown would have hit me well over 30-40 mph....i'm lucky

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Originally Posted by Blink

How many kids do you personally know that would do this?!

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Personally I know of about 6-7 that live in my sisters neiborhood alone all of about 8 houses she has had to replace her mail box 3 times and a trip the the body shop from when she told them to get the Bleep out of her yard the next morning she had key marks all down both sides 14-17 year olds
btw she told them to get out of the yard because of haveing to replace so many mail boxes

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Originally Posted by led4urhead

ROFLMAO ... never done or heard of that. Does it work while you're drunk .. never gotten into anything but alcohol.

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Somehow, I don't think it would be nearly as effective when drunk as opposed to baked out of your mind. It also has to go with the typical pothead theory that Shaggy and Scooby were total stoners, hence why they had the munchies all the time, and that Scooby snacks are really just weed cookies. I'm pretty sure "Scooby Doo'ing" is something original that my friends and I came up with. I think someone just randomly started doing it one night and we decided to make it a pastime from then on.

I think it's rather unfortunate that laws against marijuana are so harsh down in the US. Whereas in Vancouver (rightly so the weed capital of North America and second only to Amsterdam in the world), if the police catch you with anything less than an ounce, they will "write you down" (i.e. they are too lazy to fill out the paperwork to arrest you and lay down charges so they're going to let you go so they can take your weed and go smoke it themselves).

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Originally Posted by Blink

How many kids do you personally know that would do this?!

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Personally I know of about 6-7 that live in my sisters neiborhood alone all of about 8 houses she has had to replace her mail box 3 times and a trip the the body shop from when she told them to get the Bleep out of her yard the next morning she had key marks all down both sides 14-17 year olds
btw she told them to get out of the yard because of haveing to replace so many mail boxes

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Well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I'm sure the kids parents are just as evil. Maybe the parents AND and the kids get together to cause chaos. Eh eh, every think about that? :mrgreen:

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Well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I'm sure the kids parents are just as evil. Maybe the parents AND and the kids get together to cause chaos. Eh eh, every think about that?

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No I personally think that Parents have no restraint on their kids any more they dont believe in busting their butts any more and think that a little talking to will get the job done
I dont know how old you are blink but I assume from the soft spot this has hit on you that your under 18
Sorry if it hurts your feelings but I am a parent and kids will usually push it to the limits they will go as far as they can get by with

Actually I'm 19 (turning 20 soon,w0otW0ot), I don't see why you should be blaming "kids" when you have no idea that "kids" did it.
If you had any ethical judgment you wouldn't be blaming the first thing that came to your mind.
Maybe someone lost their job and went on a rampage? I can think of so many other things then "kids" to blame.

It doesn't hurt my feelings, I think you just need to learn to use better judgment.
I'm sure you wouldn't enjoy being accused of something, even though theres no proof at all that you did anything.

From my observation, all you do is "assume".

Maybe from your personally experience you can't restrain your kids, but my parents always kept me inline with a good old spanking.

Hey someone has to defend the youth. :wink:

Also, just to inform you ... If you titled the thread "Old People These Days", I'd be defending old people right about now.

You have no right to accuse anyone, with no proof at all.
For all you know, a Sasquatch did it.

Easy, trigger.

Well I dident start the thread I just contributed to it and in my situation there is proof in the form of comunnity service in the incident of the car keying since they could not and would not be punished as adults for their crime I blame leanent laws for problems like these aswell I was simply explaining my own personal situation ..so maybe think about your usage of the word "you" in your next post ... thanks for playing
and btw I have 0 problems with my kids thanks for the assumtion though

i think that everyone is just speaking from their own personal experience here, and using generalizations, which is fine. saying that "kids" did it is not neccessarily pin pointing a certain age group. if in fact the people to blame here were, say, in their 30s, their maturity level must be in the same range as whatever "kids" would do a thing like throwing rocks, busting out car windows etc. so basically they fit the same generalization.

Well I still think the Sasquatch did it.
Work on that spelling Robert.
For your information, "kids" can be punished by law.
They end up in a little place I like to call Juve (Youth Detention Facility).


And Yes, I still blame the Sasquatch.

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Easy, trigger.

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Trigger is a good "In Flames" song. :P

Ok .. everyone take a deep breath and walk away from the computer for 5 mins.

Okay, I changed my mind ... Led AND the Sasquatch did it!

Time out.