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?

There was a very unruly lad on my street a few years ago. Smashed cars, vandalism etc. He was under 10 yo.
One day as I was pulling away having reversed off my drive he deliberately jumped in front of my car. I managed to stop in time - was only in 1st so not going fast. I pulled over, he must have known he had oissed me off and actually came with me to his house, his dad came out in a dressing gown in the street - again clearly knew I meant business and I quite frankly pointed out that however much of a little shit their son was and however much they felt it was ok to ignore that and continue to let him out unsupervised - and maybe much to any residents surprise - I didn't want the boys blood on my hands.
he has actually apologised.

I'm usually a wuss

no one actually wants to see a child run over but teens this age do know better and if they don't, eg have SN, they should be out and about supervised.

I remember having a conversation with a uni friend once, he was about 23-25? I'd commented on some of the awful girls I'd known in primary school; he commented that of the boys he'd been at school with who were like that, all had already died in accidents ...

I've really noticed the sauntering out in front of you when you're driving thing. There are some teens (usually boys) who do it deliberately and actually look at you in a "ner ner" kind of way because they know you have to slow down/screech to a halt. I hate it especially as I drive a van that's bigger and heavier than a normal car and it could really end very horribly. And I may be getting old, but I've been driving about 20 years now and I'm sure it didn't used to happen. I have had people walk out in front of me in the past but only accidentally and then they would look alarmed and jump out of the way as I braked. With these boys it's deliberate to show who's boss.

I don't wish a horrible accident on anyone but I do sometimes think they are intent on removing themselves from the gene pool.

Actually think that this kind of deliberate dangerous behaviour should result in a consequence eg fine or warning of some kind. It is far from just pissing about if someone is injured

When I was young, teenage boys who did this would have been thumped. I know because I was with a boy who this happened to. He was upset about being thumped. I told him it was his own fault, which it was. There have to be consequences for bad behaviour.

GreenPotato I get a lot of that particular sauntering around here also. Sometimes accompanied by hand gestures and pulling weird faces. If there's enough distance to do so without coasting into them, then dropping into neutral and revving the engine usually has them scampering out of the road and looking like the wimpy fuckwits they actually are. Just make sure you don't put the car back into first while the revs are high as a neutral drop can fuck up an engine a bit.

The most worrying part is I've seen this kind of shit from blokes in their early to mid twenties onwards. If I were harsh I might suggest that natural selection is failing somewhere.

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.

Poor men. Back in Stone Age times they would have been out raping any woman they took a fancy to, now we expect them to ask permission first.

Yes being a teen making you a poor judge of risk but it does not make you a twat.

This kind of behaviour from teenagers is about a show of power.

That last post made me sound like one of those really aggressive twonk drivers, which I promise I ain't! I'm always very patient and chilled in the car- I reckon it must use up daily zen

But there's something about some arse sauntering in front of your car, and looking down their nose at you whilst they deliberately slow down to a shuffle and completely ignore the pedestrian crossing 10 foot away that really tests my patience. I'm pretty sure it's the way they sneer. Yup, it's definitely the sneer.

Shifty teenagers may have parents who parent in a shifty way. Not always deliberately, but because they just don't know how to deal with a stroppy adolescent.

Actually Pipbin have a Google. Hunter gatherer societies had a massively lower rate of sexual violence. Risk taking is more innate, for rape and sexual assault to proliferate you need fixed agriculture, ownership, class and power.

Depends who you read.

I live where there are trams. I have seen teenagers riding their bikes just in front of the trams for a dare. I dread to think what would happen if their bike wheel got jammed in the tram tracks and they fell off. !

I still don't buy that because hunter gatherer teens would have been doing reckless shit it excuses them from not being twats.

Dear me!
I wasn't excusing the boy. I wasn't saying he wasn't behaving badly. If he had been mine and I had found out he had done this, I would have been confiscating his bike and spending his driving lesson fund (and telling him so), not to mention taking him to the police/local trauma unit for a cosy chat about the consequences of accidents. I was merely objecting to the very unpleasant use of language represented by 'little shit'.