8 teenagers in one car that crashed

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So they were driving the wrong way on a motorway and crashed in to a single driver. At 5.30am. Apparently the car was stolen. I'm seeing photos on tiktok and they look to be very young.

Where the hell are the parents in this?! I'm seeing tiktoks where the families of these 8 boys are asking for prayers, etc. I wonder if they feel any shame at all?! Or is that an emotion they are unfamiliar with.

I think these parents need to be held accountable in some way... My sympathy lies entirely with the driver of the other car.

I don't judge people. Especially if I don't know their background. Not my place to judge.

well they were robbing houses/cars and evading the police and driving the wrong way down a motorway while filming it for social media likes and some of them had previously been involved in a hit and run using a stolen car which seriously injured someone…. To say they didn’t know what might happen is one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve seen about this and there’s some competition from their mates putting up videos and photos glorifying their burglaries and home invasions.

THIS
The stupid selfish dicks

A great post!
Down and down we go...

Yes, I can't understand it either. Most of us did foolish things when we were young, but they were generally the kind of thing that might have had minor consequences that only affected us personally and lasted a day or two.

Usually, the consequences would be meted out directly by our parents, who actually cared for us and who knew that small annoying consequences for silly choices would provide a behavioural 'sandbox' framework which would teach us to learn from it and not to repeat it, much less push things any further.

What we didn't do was repeatedly commit a catalogue of serious crimes - of the kind that the vast majority of adults would never dream of committing - which could very easily lead to us or other people ending up in prison or dead.

If idiots want to be idiots and do things that put their life’s at risk, then crack on. But don’t put other people at risk and drag them into your sick games. There are innocent people currently in hospital in a critical condition due to the actions of these vile human beings. Some of these teens were under 16. What sort of parent doesn’t know, or doesn’t care enough, where their kids are at that time of night?!

Which is why we must also address and harshly punish the parents who neglectfully enable and condone this. Children don't magically become well-adjusted, responsible adults all on their own - it's their parents' job to guide and ensure this; not just a little hobby that they might briefly consider if they happen to fancy it at all.

I listened to part of a podcast earlier, (opinions matter) and they had on a woman who lives on the same estate as the two brothers, she had nothing good to say about them nor the parents, called them scumbags, said the kids were thrown out onto the street as soon as they could walk, and the two brothers were nothing but troublemakers. She said she knew the ‘non Irish’ when he was younger and he was lovely and his parents were lovely and decent people, didn’t know what had happened to him for him to be involved. She was very excitable and vocal about her dislike for the family of the two brothers.

She also mentioned one of the gang was driving around the same type of car as was involved in the incident, but she wasn’t sure if they owned it or if it was stolen.

I thought two of the boys were cousins, not brothers @Mesk?

The UK is soft on punishment, 40 places in Ireland for young offenders - it is a joke that is replicated across the nation.

I don’t understand this comment @DallasMajor.
Ireland (aka ROI) and the UK are separate countries.

If you are not condeming their actions, you are condoning them.

And that is wrong.

No it’s ridiculous. Trust me I did a lot of stupid shit as a youngster. Never once did I steal a car and drive it purposefully at speed the wrong way down a motorway for tiktok likes.

I had enough near death misses as it was due to normal teen stupidity.

It's about time the law was changed to stop young drivers having passengers.

My sympathies are entirely with the innocent victims in all of this, and the emergency services having to deal with the consequences of these scumbags actions.

The car was stolen, banning passengers wouldn’t have stopped these lawless kids

I think your judgement is inappropriate at this time and reflects badly on you.
Show a little humanity.
I read about the crash and thought it was a tragedy.

You could be right, maybe she said the same family and I assumed brothers.

Apologies, it was laziness of posting, where my thoughts run on faster than my typing.

What?

They disregarded the law about overloading cars, stealing, speeding and DRIVING THE WRONG WAY DOWN THE MOTORWAY.

How would that have helped in this situation? They were already evading capture by the police - I dont think respecting the law was a priority with them.

Good luck with engaging the travelling community.

Respect works both ways!

No, it’s about time that existing laws were enforced and breaches properly punished. How many laws had these lads already broken? Do you think they’d not break any new laws that weren’t policed properly?

If my family had been harmed by these young men I'd find your lack of judgement offensive.

No the judgement is entirely correct. Been thinking it for a while and this tragedy and discussion proves it. There deems to be 3 types of people in society
Scrotes like this lot who have no consideration, empathy or thought for anything but themselves. They contribute nothing to society and whats yours is theirs.
People on here who can explain and justify and support the scrotes and blame it all on society and the rest of us
The rest of us who try to live from day to day, doing what we do and dont ask for anything much besides getting on with life without being at risk of death or injury and robbed by the scrotes. We'd also like the government to govern and use our tax money wisely and well. Sadly the scrotes are thriving and increasing in number and our tax money is wasted every single day.