Arkansas homeowner shoots at teens egging his car, killing 15 year old girl in the process

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37. Because they're teenagers

Teenagers do dumb things.

I see posts like yours - and not just you, it's fairly common on DU - and I just wonder what sort lif lives you guys lived. Did you sprout whole from the earth in your current age? Were you just absolute angles between the age of 10 and 20? What's up?

When I was fifteen, I did LOTS of dumb things.

1) I was a thief. I shoplifted stuff. Mostly for the thrill of doing it, to see if I could. I never actually lifted anything more valuable than packs of magic cards, but it's the principle of the thing.

2) A friend and I built a cabin in the woods near our neighborhood, planning to turn it into a love shack for all the hot girls we were going to bang. never mind that neither of us knew of any such girls, or that they probably wouldn't want to shag in the woods, we were prepared. Oh, and we stole all the lumber we used, by tossing it over the fence in the back of a nearby home depot.

3) same friend and I used my graddad's old steelwright tools to make medieval weapons. Which we then used to fight duels with each other. We also got into fights with kids the next neighborhood over. Not knuckle sandwich fights - bleach-bomb and homemade fireworks fights. That nobody was actually harmed in any of this is an absolute miracle.

4) In later years I picked fights, by being a smartass until the guy I was after made it physical. That I almost never won these fights was beside the point, it was about asserting myself as someone who isn't afraid to hit back. Which rather obviously wouldn't have been necessary had I not been a dick. I'm still a smartassed bastard.

Oh and of course there's the cross-county hikes, the highway bike races, and all the other stupid, stupid, stupid shit that an invincible know-it-all teenager is certain they will get away with with no consequences.

I've actually done things that would likely warrant getting shot at. So. yes. Teenagers do some stupid shit. Most of them not to the degree that would call for a bullet - gooping up someone's car is certainly really, relaly fucking low on the list.