More Than Just "Stupid"

I dealt with a job on Saturday where two young (13 year old) girls were on a footbridge above a dual carriageway. They each had a drink and were spitting it out at passing cars before throwing the cups at them as well.

With an accuracy sadly missing with most England sporting sides the girls managed to hit several of the cars speeding below them at 70mph plus. And obviously several people phoned the Police. Long story short, we turned up, found them hiding interviewed them and they're going to receive a Final Warning.

But we've had loads of problems with this carriageway. There's 2 footbridges and the Council's caged one and put CCTV on the other. But still kids continue to chuck stuff at the traffic. Normally it's food or stones but the other night it was a couple of Tesco shopping trolleys. Bloody big lumps of metal that they dropped onto a passing van.

I can understand why some (definately not all) kids do daft things sometimes. Because I did most of them too when I was their age. Knocking on doors then running off, playing football next to cars, painting cricket wickets onto walls. I even once got told off for being nasty to a cat.

But dropping a shopping trolley onto a vehicle moving at 70mph? How fu**ing stupid can they be? In fact, at what point does their stupidity become so.....stupid that words fail us all and we lock ourselves in cupboards just so that we don't have to face up to their breathtaking idiocy?

Children (generally) aren't as good as adults (generally) at understanding things like consequences. People in their early teens tend to think about "now" rather than "what if?". I understand that. I can live with that. But some things are so glaringly obvious they might as well have a neon sign on them saying "I'm glaringly obvious".

There's no real point to this post. Just wanted to spout off.

And actually, on a totally unrelated topic, I was chatting to a bloke who worked at Tesco the other day. He looked out of his bedroom window in the morning and saw that some fool had painted the word "c*nt" across his neighbours garage. Nice.

If we find out who did it, they'll be quickly rounded up to receive their slap on the wrist. I wonder how much more effective it would be if we got hold of some sort of semi-permanent marker (the sort that lasts on skin for about a month) and wrote "c*nt" across his forehead?