Crazy Kids

Of note today was the report that yesterday 12 car loads of high schoolers from Danbury wound their way to another nearby rival school as the day ended. These kids, as many as perhaps 72, were toting raquets, tools and various implements of destruction and decided to attack the students of the other school as they went to their buses after the end of classes for the day.

Why did these youthful boys do such a thing? Spirited rivalry gone out of hand? Teenage prank? Just 'for fun'? NO! It was over a GIRL! That's right, one of the Danbury girls had started dating some kid at this other school, so Johnny and the gang decided to drive over and mete out some street justice to random unsuspecting kids. It's so Lord of the Flies. Now, of course it is bad. I won't say it's a tragedy since that word gets used FAR too loosely on non-tragic events, but... it sucks, Beavis. On the other hand, this being ME... if this were fiction and no one were hurt I'd be thinking it was pretty sadistically funny right now. As it is, several kids are in the hospital now due to injuries.

What the heck ever possessed these kids to do such things? If we were ever going to prank someone or get even for some reason, we'd like 4x4 their lawn or potato gun the house..... i.e., no lasting damage and zero injury..... not a drive-by mugging with a tennis raquet and a pipe wrench! WTH, kids? WTH?

My other thought was that they were DAMN lucky that this other school is full of goody-goodies and no drug dealers with guns got attacked. There'd be bodies on the baseball diamond. "Hit me with a pipe wrench, bitch?! I gotchu!" BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

So, bad could have been worse and thankfully wasn't. But seriously, I am still a bit incredulous to the whole event. I don't get it. But I wish I'd been there! =) At least two or three Danbury punks wouldn't be getting right up to drive away!