Some little scrotes just kicked a football at my car on purpose when they knew I was watching and knew I knew where at least two (out of 5) of them live...
I can understand damaging something you are jealous of if you don't think you'll get caught or mindlessly doing it without thinking but when you've lived on the same street as the "victim" for your whole life and can plainly see he's watching... that takes a special kind of stupidity.
I can't see any damage to the car (though it is dusk so there may well be scratches I can't see) and it's not really the damage that would irritate me - it's the sheer pointlessness and disregard for anyone else (or even for the repercussions against themselves) that bothers me.
I'm going to see the kid’s father tomorrow to see what he thinks of his son’s friends. The kid is 16 and polite as you like when he's on his own, but he was jeering and swearing at me with the rest of them in his little 'gang'. I'm fairly sure his father will punish him very severely (if not beat 7 bells out of him) for making him look bad in front of the neighbours or whatever - serves him right, perhaps it'll encourage him to get some tidy friends and go some small way to stopping him becoming one of the illiterate thugs of the future... ... ... or perhaps he won't give a flying duck and go on being a waster.
If I'd done something like that 6 years ago my father would have made me pay for whatever expensive and unnecessary repairs the owner wanted to make up for it, offer to clean their cars and mow their lawns for a year and deprive me of every luxury like TV, computer and going out for 3 months minimum. And damn right too... It's not like it was an accident, lapse of judgement or a daft thing done on impulse - it was a blatant act of vandalism that they knew they were going to get caught for.
Perhaps I'm just a grumpy fart who should lighten up but I think that the lack of empathy and fragrant disregard for the consequences of their actions is endemic of what is wrong with a lot of areas of modern society.
"Stop skating on the sidewalk you damn kids!"
I can understand damaging something you are jealous of if you don't think you'll get caught or mindlessly doing it without thinking but when you've lived on the same street as the "victim" for your whole life and can plainly see he's watching... that takes a special kind of stupidity.
I can't see any damage to the car (though it is dusk so there may well be scratches I can't see) and it's not really the damage that would irritate me - it's the sheer pointlessness and disregard for anyone else (or even for the repercussions against themselves) that bothers me.
I'm going to see the kid’s father tomorrow to see what he thinks of his son’s friends. The kid is 16 and polite as you like when he's on his own, but he was jeering and swearing at me with the rest of them in his little 'gang'. I'm fairly sure his father will punish him very severely (if not beat 7 bells out of him) for making him look bad in front of the neighbours or whatever - serves him right, perhaps it'll encourage him to get some tidy friends and go some small way to stopping him becoming one of the illiterate thugs of the future... ... ... or perhaps he won't give a flying duck and go on being a waster.
If I'd done something like that 6 years ago my father would have made me pay for whatever expensive and unnecessary repairs the owner wanted to make up for it, offer to clean their cars and mow their lawns for a year and deprive me of every luxury like TV, computer and going out for 3 months minimum. And damn right too... It's not like it was an accident, lapse of judgement or a daft thing done on impulse - it was a blatant act of vandalism that they knew they were going to get caught for.
Perhaps I'm just a grumpy fart who should lighten up but I think that the lack of empathy and fragrant disregard for the consequences of their actions is endemic of what is wrong with a lot of areas of modern society.
"Stop skating on the sidewalk you damn kids!"
