What Is Wrong With Youths Today.......

[trt]

They will probably get off with a warning or a few hours community work, but the courts have got to start getting tough!!!!!

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/taxi-stone-attack-horror-five-11615250#ICID=FB-Birm-main

[ToraToraTora]

"They don't think of the damage they can do. " - well perhaps a lengthy spell in one of HMs Holiday camps will give them time to reflect on that.

[ummmm]

Look...I'm not saying they shouldn't be held 100% accountable. I just think sometimes youths don't actually think about the consequences of their actions. Their punishment hopefully will make them think before they act in future.

I just won't write them off as bad people. Good youths also do bad and stupid things!

[Old_Geezer]

I see no indication that they are due for a telling off. Clearly the incident is a serious one and the punishment must reflect that. Maybe we can return to the incident when the court case has been heard.

[MallyJ]

What is wrong with SOME of today's youth? Their upbringing I would guess.

[ummmm]

That's it...blame the parents!!!

[anneasquith]

I think the parents of the young thugs must take some responsibility.

[ummmm]

Thugs? Have they got a history that isn't reported?

[jennyjoan]

it is going on a long time - I recall waiting for a taxi when I was in my twenties and a glass bottle was thrown out of a car - bottle smashed and one of the pieces struck my right leg causing it to bleed.

Even then I didn't go to A&E - went home and bathed it and wrapped it in a bandage.

BUT I do not condone those lads - the lady in question is old and frail and of course the shock could do more damage.

[beso]

What is wrong with youths today.?

The same thing that has been wrong with some both young and old since Adam was a boy.

I count some young people among the very best of humanity and many of those who say "what is wrong with youth" among the worst.

[retrocop]

//Thugs? Have they got a history that isn't reported?//

How many times do they have to do such acts before they are called thugs.?
The first act committed is thuggish!

[ummmm]

As a ex cop, Retro, you haven't dealt with good kids that did something stupid that day?

Are all youths written off as thugs?

[retrocop]

//Are all youths written off as thugs? //

No only when they commit thuggish acts!
If you go out shoplifting for the first time in your life you have now become a shoplifter and a thief. The record sticks. You can't erase it.

[retrocop]

ummm
This was a heck of a lot more than just a harmless prank that went wrong.
If two 17 and three 15 year olds are so ignorant of the potential consequences of throwing a brick at someone's head then they should be given several years extra education in an approved school. The publicity may warn others of the consequences of doing the same.

[ummmm]

Retro...my uncle, now 65, was caught joyriding in his youth. He's one of the nicest people. His punishment....he was made to join the army!

He's not a thug, or a criminal, he did something stupid, and he paid the price.

We shouldn't write our kids off because of an act of stupidity.

I would have been slightly blase about these sorts of crimes until I became a driver. It's then you realise the seriousness of it.

[naomi24]

I wonder what these nice young people thought would happen when they lobbed a brick at a taxi?

[bazwillrun]

I've read some garbage on here over the years, but classing this as stupidity ranks near the top.

it was an act of criminal intent...and if people like ummm have kids and think it's just stupid then they are also part of the problem...

[rsvp]

There is something very wrong if anyone can justify this completely unforgiveable and mindless act of violence. I don't care what excuses are mooted - these idiots need to be punished in accordance with the full force of the law. No-one can not be aware of the damage that a brick thrown through a window con do. They are all old enough to be aware of social responsibilty and if they choose to ignore it then they deserve everything they get.

[retrocop]

Your uncle was punished for his crime and rightly so.
The point of this OP was to highlight the probability that kids today will get off virtually unpunished, //They will probably get off with a warning or a few hours community work,//
A proper example by way of a harsh punishment must be used as a deterrent. The kid gloves and excuses for this type of behaviour will not eradicate it.
I heard a couple of accounts from two old men who were birched in their youth for committing a crime. They said,"Never again".

[retrocop]

rsvp
Spot on.

[ToraToraTora]

rsvp: "There is something very wrong if anyone can justify this completely unforgiveable and mindless act of violence." - over to you ummmmm.

Little thugs need a dam good thrashing!