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[cookie_b]

Stepson (aka Knucklehead) and his little buddies got picked up by the police yesterday afternoon for throwing rocks at cars. The stupidest part? They were making a Jackass video on one of the mom's video cameras and have themselves on film. The police are using it as evidence

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[silver_beetle]

I dunno, I think a trip to juvie will do him good. And i he has to do community service, so much the better: then he'll see what real delinquents are like.

[cookie_b]

I agree - I had to go to juvenile court after I hit a Mack truck when I was 16. I left the scene of the accident (actually, I left my car pulled over on the side of the road and ran crying to my friend's house around the corner).

Juvie was SCARY!!!

I also believe that this kid needs a job - not a full-time job, or even a part-time job, but a few hours a week bagging groceries or doing some other menial teenage task isn't going to kill him.

He was recently asking for a digital camera to take on his trip to Spain with his class in the spring. A job would solve many issues:

1. It took him six months to break the previous digital camera the family chipped in and bought for his birthday last year. (He has no idea how he broke it.) With a job, he can buy his own damned electronic equipment.

2. He can start pulling a paycheck so we don't give him an allowance anymore.

3. He can put his paychecks toward the trip to Spain that I no longer think he deserves to go on.

As you can tell, I'm still absolutely enraged about this...