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

[TorchTheWitch]

129. assuming you know the parents or even who the kids are

Yeah, when I was a kid it wasn't even your own parents that you had to worry about but every other parent on the block because they'd discipline you the same as your own parents would, and all the parents wanted it that way. These days it's nothing like that and maybe even why kids run so much wilder now than we did. And these days you also have to worry if that parent of the kid is a crazy with a gun and likely why the kid is like that in the first place.

And these days you don't know if those kids have weapons or would beat your ass either. I wouldn't dream of going after the obnoxious teenagers on my street myself - they're that bad and their own parents are why they are. One of the big reasons I have a big mean dog is so that assholes are reluctant to mess with either me or my property.

The world was an entirely different place when we were kids. And on Mischief night we never used eggs or mayo or anything that would be that much of a problem for someone to have on their car or their house or in their mailbox. Toilet paper, shaving cream and a bar of soap only take a scant bit of time to clean off your car, and back then people didn't have to worry they'd be fired from their job because they were late getting to work because they had to clean their car off.

I really miss those days when i was growing up. Of course we hated it at the time that it was the other parents we had to worry about being caught by more than mine (Mrs. C and Mrs. L scared the crap out of us!), and I find myself looking back on how things were then so often these days.