To think this kid deserves to be squashed

[Nataleejah]

Yesterday i witnessed a scene in the street. A boy about 14 was cycling in circles around a bus, making stupid faces at the driver, while his friends on the pavement were having a laugh.
Who would be to blame if this little shit would have gotten run over?

A good case for someone getting off of the bus & walloping him....

I once witnessed teenagers hanging onto a car bonnet, as it was being driven and doing handbrake turns in a public car park near a country park I frequented with DCs. I was considering calling the police when two coppers got out of an unmarked car and sorted the kids out. Is this what counts as fun these days?!

My late friends four year old son died after falling into the road. I know that was an accident, but you are naive if you think nothing will ever happen to your children…
I'm sorry to be so morbid but I'm always shocked how people think they are superior to trauma

I'm always shocked how people think they are superior to trauma

Statistically we are generally safe though aren't we.

And statistically, kids that are dicking around are more likely to come a cropper than those that aren't.

Yes, the monsters are always just around the corner....

I really did wish I had some better ideas of how to drum road safety into mine whilst they are young though. Does anyone know?

A group with a shopping trolley ran out in front of me yesterday. Pushed the trolley and all ran out after it - and then danced about in the middle of the road. Luckily I was going slowly as I'd seen them up ahead and guessed they were idiots but it was frightening.

I'm not being thick DeVere and I haven't made any comment at all on what type of homes differently-behaved adolescents come from

But if you think all teenagers hang around in the streets 'taking dares' to do things that might kill them or indulging in the kind of semi-criminal behaviour described in the OP, then you don't know a very wide range of people aged 13-19.

Teenagers come with a range of personality traits, interests and preferences just like the rest of us.

Exactly, it can be a split second :(

It's a thread about a youth circling a bus on a bicycle. On what planet is that something that might happen to anyone?

The kid is doing it to be an little arsehole, and look cool in front of his mates.
Always surprises me how irate some MNers get about people calling teens little shits. At that age they have some self awareness - and certainly should understand that that kind of behaviour will likely lead to getting hurt.

I daresay the people who object to calling them "little shits" are the ones raising said shits in the first place, because they dare not say a word against them (in or out of their hearing) so as not to upset the little "angels". They grow up never hearing the word "no" or "naughty", so think they can do whatever they want. Then fast-forward a few years and they're harassing people all over the place. But no, don't want to hurt their feelings, do we?

I get sick of people excusing teenagers because of their age, or their hormones, or saying it normal for them to behave badly or be obnoxious or rude. It's not normal. They do what they are allowed to get away with.
I wasn't allowed to be like that. I was cheeky and difficult at times but it wasn't tolerated or excused.

Poor bloody teenagers. Their brains are wired so that the fit, young, strong completely idiotic and oblivious to risk people in the tribe would hunt woolly mammoths and protect the tribe from wolves. Poor bastards are expected to sit still and act like rational people now.

My SIL's kid just lacerated his spleen play-fighting. This on top of a broken kneecap mountain biking. Perfectly lovely kid, just being a teenager.

These are the same people who went out in planes in the war and saved our arses. Because their brains are wired that way.

All that stupidity and risk-blindness should be put to good use instead of leaving kids to have to try to be rational all day then unleashing them on the world. Jonah Lomu RIP was a good example of this principle.

Agree TeaLeaf. And yes, it only takes once but there are kids who do this on a weekly basis.

They know what they are doing and they don't care. Most teens are not like that. Sorry - they are little shits. They may not always be so. One would hope that they would grow up to be reasonable - but they have never been called to account for their actions - just excused.

Think about what some teens do at 15 and 16 that require a serious level of responsibility

Mrsterry- is that a joke? If so it's a pretty shitty one. If you really think teen fighter pilots were just risk takers whose brains were wired like that, we'll fucking hell.

That's what I meant Mrs TP. My uncle joined the RAF at 16 - because "it was the right thing to do".

My DD has a friend who cares for a very sick parent, (17)

Keeping kids in school until 18 is ridiculous - unless it is their choice

Should have said - in 1942

MrsTP er, no, their brains weren't "wired that way". They were young, fit and strong and society / parents encouraged them to fight for their country. What a bizarre generalisation. So, teenage girls aren't wired that way, then? How are they wired?

That's not such a far cry from "boys will be boys" defence. No DECENT teenage boy will act out his "brain wiring" by harassing people and making a repeated nuisance of themselves in public.

Did I mention sex? No I didn't. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/teenage-brains/dobbs-text

I didn't mean that fighter pilots weren't conscripted, pressured and coerced into doing it. What I meant was that risk assessment is different in teenagers. It just is. If someone wanted me to put my life on the line like that, at my age, I wouldn't. Unless my DD's life was directly at risk.

I don't think it's an 'excuse' BTW. I think understanding that toddlers can tantrum and teenagers can be poor at assessing risk is the job of fully formed adults. So that we can be an effective society.

Or, we can complain about the little bastards and mow them down in the street. Either way.

You talked about hunting wooly mammoths and being fighter pilots, both things that have been traditionally "male" oriented.

Yes, risk assessment is not developed until later in life. However, "being an asshole" wiring can be sorted out reasonably early with the proper parenting.

Cycling round a bus isn't just a failed risk assessment though. It's deliberately twattish behaviour designed to wind up other people, because you enjoy making other's lives difficult and know you'll get away with it.

Obviously it would be a shame if he was squished though. Somebody must love the little fucknugget.

Some teenagers are little shits!
It doesn't mean some of us are mean spirited it just means that maybe some of us have been hassled by these little darlings !!

I can just imagine what would have happened if the driver had said something, either him and his mates would have started something, or his parents would have kicked up a fuss for daring to tell their previous off.
I feel sorry for the drivers now, amount of crap they have to put up with now.

kali exactly. It used to be that a stern word from an adult and they'd run off shame-faced. Now they stab you to death for daring to try and "tell them what to do".