Police: 7 Teens Invaded Homes For 'Adrenaline Rush'

[Raydawg1234]

Police in Palm Bay, Fla., arrested seven teens in the last several days wanted in connection with a series of home break-ins that were apparently committed because the group wanted an "adrenaline rush," according to a police report.
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http://www.local6.com/news/7745611/detail.html

Wasn't it also Florida where kids beat up homeless people? What is wrong with these kids, and is it our culture that is causing this??

[buddysmellgood]

1. Teen agers are not fully human. Studies have shown their brains are not

quite wired completely.They do stupid things. Now, you can get a pretty good measure based on how stupid, but I don't think the breaking an entering is any different than 50 years ago.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. my fam therapy prof said that teens are "brain-damaged"

bc of their underdeveloped brains, she would tell this to frustrated parents, and it seemed to help reassure then that they don't really have insane kids.

[buddysmellgood]

7. I started dreaming about my driver's license when I was 12 in a big way. I

should not have been allowed to drive without an adult...or 25+ year old, until I was 18. It's insane what teens will do.

[TahitiNut]

3. Florida's "shoot first" law should offer all of them a real rush.

:eyes:


Where did my country go?

[ReadTomPaine]

5. Bingo.

I thought the same thing. Adrenal rush or death wish?

[northofdenali]

9. My god, can you imagine the outcry?

These "kids" are described as being from upper-middle-class homes. Kid busts down the door after the doorbell isn't answered because Bubba was in the shower - and catches Bubba's 12-gauge shotgun blast in the face.

Sure as hell wouldn't be a "grazing" like Whittington's. And a LOT of Florida believes strongly in the "shoot first" ethic.............

I don't care how brain dead teenagers are, I don't buy excusing their criminal actions because of it. I very much remember my teen years and what a little hellraiser I was, but I NEVER engaged in that kind of criminal conduct, nor did anyone I knew. FLame me if you will, but I really do believe that discipline is dead - the true meaning of it, anyway - both my folks were very liberal for the times, solid Dems, politically active (we're talking the late 60's, early 70's) but they still made sure we knew right from wrong. And they made sure we refrained from this kind of wrong.

They still didn't bust me for smoking pot, though!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. We've been having trouble with roving gangs of teens in Portland too!

Just saw this article today..


New 'group attacks' leave man with broken jaw
By Brian Barker
and KATU.com Web Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. - Two new attacks in southeast Portland by roving groups of young people appear to be simple assaults with no links to robbery or other crimes.

Two new reported attacks over the weekend have police enforcing underage curfew laws on the lookout for groups of teens.

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Portland police say they are growing concerned about the recent spate of unexplained attacks by groups of teens. Groups of young people have attacked people several times over the past several months in north and northeast Portland, kicking and beating total strangers for apparently no reason.

The incidents in southeast Portland mark an expansion of the problem.

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=83874

Copycats of the Florida beatings? Bored? Hopeless?

I don't know, but it sure seems to be epidemic. :(

[Raydawg1234]

6. these kids are like zombies! atack of the living dead!

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Whatever happened to bungee jumping??