Parenting a 13 yo boy question.

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My son, who is impulsive, sneaked out with a buddy to TP a girl in the neighborhood's house. It is clear that they planned to TP since they left the TP in the girl's yard. Rather than TP the house they built a sculpture of a penis (complete with urine or god knows what, made of food coloring). My son and his friend like this girl and consider her a friend.

The only good news in this story is that there is no hope that these boys have a successful life of crime in front of them, the crime trail to them was in the snow. Also, the next day realizing that this wasn't such a hot idea they returned to the scene of the crime to tear it down, but by then it was noon.

Once caught the boy couldn't explain himself. He said he knew it was wrong while he was doing it, but also thought it was funny. Funny!? I'm of a mind that the sculpture wasn't a sexual statement to the boys, more like a fart joke, but I'm ashamed of what he did.

In general he is a good kid, not particularly rebellious, an A, B student. The things he has been caught doing before were not serious, just impulsive. Not that it's not worrisome.

Any thoughts?