conscience

A teen girl, Sarah, presumably joked on twitter about blowing up a plane and was arrested accordingly. Now teens who think "it was just a joke" and who are siding with Sarah are also "joking" (not funny?) about bombs and terrorist acts via twitter, even going as far as threating to bomb police head quarters unless the girl was released.



http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/15...-girl-arrested



stupid teenagers

03-accent-03

Idiots.....

Tak82

stupidity and social media..need i say more?

Stocker

kids are stupid. This is not news. We used to threaten each other's lives all the time without going to prison, back when people had some damn sense. I hope they have such an overwhelming tide of stupid kids threatening violence they have no way to perpetrate, that the authorities get a clue and stop making a fuss about twitter posts and start paying attention to the kids themselves.

Tibbi

Kids are going to do dumbass sh*t, but they's shouldn't be exempt from punishment.

The problem you have is these brats think their numbers make them bulletproof, a message needs to be sent. It'll suck for them and their families, but at some point a line needs to be drawn. You can't send threats like this even as a joke. At some point it's like crying wolf, in that the jokes go far enough that the real threat is ignored. The problem is social media and it's ties with advertising (as we said in another thread.) You have immense, immediate exposure. That comes with a huge amount of responsibility which is greatly misunderstood by youths. I did some stupid sh*t when I was that age too, but getting punished or seeing others punished was the clue not to repeat the actions. I'm not going to say treat them like terrorists, but you have to scare the lot of them pretty good. Otherwise it's just going to perpetuate the issue.

Stocker

The current problem is, they ARE treating them like terrorists anymore.

Tibbi

Are they? Last I checked these kids aren't being thrown in a supermax and waterboarded without process. Worst case they have their homes ransacked and do a little time to scare them strait. I'm not going to sugarcoat it, it's not fun or pretty; but if they're going to commit the crime (which it is) they have to be prepared for the consequences.

Visionz

Reason #565,343,768 that explains why I never want kids

03-accent-03

Tibbi

Beat them properly. Or discipline, that works too. I mean, its not hard.