Mischief

MISCHIEF YOUTHS LOCATED LASALETTE LP08187606

During the early morning hours of August 02nd 2008. Norfolk OPP received numerous complaints of acts of minor mischief to people’s property and the school area in and around Lasalette. Police were able to apprehend 4 male youths between the ages of 14 and 16. Officers located the youths as the direct result of an astute member of the public. The community member was able to provide information that directed officers to the parties involved. Youths were located transported to their residence and disciplined by parents involved

You can bet they won't do that again.


A while back I had a nephew and daughter that were harrassed by a young boy at the school yard. He bullied them and then threw their bikes against a tree and bent then all up. They walked home a told me and I located the guy and it just happened that a cruiser was driving past the school. I waved him in and informed C. Butler what happened. He didn't want to bother about it so we had words. Later he found the guy and brought him to my house to verify it was him. He then pulled me to the side and stated that there was not much he could do and that this guy had no real parents and a poor upbringing and didn't want to press charges and that if he ever did get some money he would for sure pay the damages....he-he-he..........I'm sure you know the rest of the story....

PS: I wonder where he is or what he's doing today.

cricket wrote:

...He then pulled me to the side and stated that there was not much he could do and that this guy had no real parents and a poor upbringing and didn't want to press charges and that if he ever did get some money he would for sure pay the damages....he-he-he..........I'm sure you know the rest of the story....

Nope.
Sorry, but try as I might, I missed the point you were trying to make. Check your run-on sentence because it doesn't make sense. Why would Carl press charges - I thought that would have to be up to you to do so? Are you saying Carl vouched for the youth, stating to you that the youth would pay the damages if he gets the money? That doesn't make sense. And no I don't know the rest of the story. Please fill in the blanks.

I understand what Cricket is saying and I agree with him.

I think Cricket is pointing out that even if you find and grab these vandals at an early age, doing specific damage, they are just sent on their way..."because they are just kids doing what kids do," or" he really has no parents," or "he's had a bad upbringing" or "you can't get money out of him anyway." Or the Young Offenders Act specifies that nothing much will happen!

The police in the cities don't even bother to pursue a vandalism or damage or theft report. There is no way they can follow it up. Even if you saw the kid and he "was white, about 5'10 wearing a ball cap and jeans and a black hoodie." What then? Where is that gonna go?

However, if some of these kids got turned around when they started out with this nonsense, you might be able to turn them around before they got fully involved. But that takes a whole society to do that. And it won't happen.

And no one cares enough about that...and there are no programs to re-direct kids going wrong. So they just speak to them or take them home to parents who will probably laugh it off or send them to their rooms while the police officer is standing there or probably the parents aren't even home...and away they go. Around the corner to smash someone else's property. And it continues to "breed" within our society.

Norfolk Talks poster, Justice, has this at the bottom of all of her/his postings: "~The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein -"

That's exactly what I meant C.King. They did not want me to press charges for the direct vandalism to the bike's. As I also said, when I initially approached the officer about the incident he couldn't have cared less. Now do you see my point. To further this There are a couple of neighbours that have had vandalism on their property, such as steeling and breaking Xmas lights etc.etc. When the police were called they didn't even come by. I know they can be too busy....but not every time. And then a week ago you read in the Simcoe paper that there is such an increase in mischief and vandalism in the area and they want to curb this and encourage people to report anything suspicious.....the little stuff they don't bother with turns into bigger things I think.