Florida, boys age 12 and 13 destroy a school library

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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[MrWowWow]

1. They are MAGA Spawn

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Children of the Corn

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[Cha]

14. From Central Casting...

[Dixiegrrrl]

20. Their mothers turned them in, it sez

Sounds like a responsible parent response to me.

[Attilatheblond]

24. Let's hope responsible parent makes damned sure those boy NEVER have access to firearms.

Those boys have a lot of anger

[BlueSpot]

33. So Magat wannbes

Good for the mom. Too bad she didn't pay enough attention to her kid earlier though. Now she should be liable for at least half of the damage.

[raccoon]

45. And the boy's loving father too, wherever he is.

[Jack Valentino]

25. Products of the Florida Nazi educational system, no doubt

[Initech]

38. The kind of people who Chump attracts to his cause!

[LW1977]

2. Stupid is as stupid does!

[Dave Bowman]

3. Are Florida boys related to Florida Man?

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Obviously

They BECOME FloriDUH men!

[carpetbagger]

10. Yes.

My bff from elementary school in Miami became Florida Boy when he had his computer seized by the FBI after breaking into DoD systems in the early 80s, grew up to star in a Florida Man story unique enough that I'd identify him by even a vague retelling.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. Florida Boy is the father of the Florida Man

(Sorry, Wordsworth.)

[RussBLib]

4. welcome to a life of crime, punks

how stupid can you get?

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[buzzycrumbhunger]

5. I avoid the east coast...

… but isn’t Volusia county one of those regulars on Cops or something? I can’t recall hearing anything good happening there.

[RazorbackExpat]

39. Volusia County was where 10,000 Gore votes suddenly went poof

They called it an "error"

[Sneederbunk]

7. They were probably going after the gay and trans stuff.

[MIButterfly]

8. Well, they'll be on America's Most Wanted in a few years.

Their parents must be so proud. Maybe DJT can give them jobs in his administration.

[meadowlander]

9. Good on the Moms, but why is this a national news story?

They're kids who did stupid kid things. Let the juvenile courts sort it out.

When I was about that age on a school field trip, some of my classmates stole a bunch of presents from a charity box under a Salvation Army Christmas tree. That was in the bluest possible area of the bluest possible state and all of them were suspended from school for a month, had to do probation and then grew up to become more or less functional members of society in part because their faces weren't splattered all over the national news.

Tween lack of impulse control is a thing as is the need to protect the privacy of juvenile offenders. I can't believe they're allowed to show their full faces on that last link.

And for people piling on this as a chance to trash Florida, the Moms who did the right thing are clearly Florida residents as well.

[stopdiggin]

27. +1. And thanks - for being one of the few on this thread questioning the 'national news' narrative

(and why we're featuring it here on DU?)
Kids have been doing this kind of crap for years. And, all in all, it's really kind of humdrum - and ho-hum.

And perhaps the most significant part of this whole affair - is that the moms turned the little sh*theads in. Thumbs up for moms walking the walk, and insisting on some 'consequences'.

[NoRethugFriends]

30. Sorry the boys will be boys stuff doesn't fly

[meadowlander]

36. I didn't say "boys will be boys".

I said juvenile offenders are juveniles and go through a separate arm of the justice system for good reasons.

[NoRethugFriends]

40. Part of your post kind of felt like that to me, when you mentioned what you and your friends did.

My apologies if I misread.

[meadowlander]

41. It wasn't something I or my friends did to be clear - just kids (of an unspecified gender) in my class.

But appreciate the apology anyway.

[NoRethugFriends]

46. Sorry for not reading more carefully

[drmeow]

11. If they were children of color

there would be a push to try them as adults!

[Trueblue1968]

12. Jail time boys ..... And make their parents for ALL the destruction.

[Xavier Breath]

13. Future Fox News contributors.

[Midnight Writer]

15. Aren't the identities of juveniles supposed to be protected? Are these their actual pictures?

[Skittles]

16. right?

WTF

[Prairie Gates]

19. I'm sickened that this is on DU

Everybody so keen on outrage culture these days that they're practically engaging in child abuse.

Gross. Just absolutely gross.

[H2O Man]

35. Right.

It's strange to read the outrage expressed on the thread, too. Kids that age do really stupid things. Lots of histrionics on the thread.

[Blue Owl]

17. Future Stephen Millers

Just what we need…..

[Prairie Gates]

18. Turning this into a national story is disgusting

Let it be handled by the parents, the school, and the local community.

Leave the outrage bait and culture for the grown-ups, for fucks sake.

[MLAA]

21. I agree, at 12 & 13 they are children.

[BidenRocks]

26. Children plus Cell Phones ?

There was a reason kids were not allowed access to movies and media.

Now everything is there, but the maturity to comprehend it is lacking.

Kids cannot be kids any more.

They really grow up too fast.

[MLAA]

31. So true.

[cab67]

28. The children should not be identified, and their pictures should not be shown -

- but I think this is national news.

[Attilatheblond]

29. Extreme anger in youngsters needs to be addressed nationally. It is ALL our problem.

We need, as a people/society to take a hard look at the conditions these youngsters are growing up in. We need to find out the causes and address the anger so many have. This isn't a local problem with a couple of boys. It is a societal problem and sometimes kids become a lot more violent. Combined with access to firearms and we have a serious epidemic of very dangerous people.

Just keeping these things local is like saying 'boys will be boys' and all of us go about our business.

This is a glaring symptom that there serious problems affecting our youngsters. We ignore it and it only gets worse.

[markodochartaigh]

22. I don't have time for the video to load on my phone.

Why are they saying that DeSantis and Rick Scott are 12 and 13 years old?

[dem4decades]

32. Was it their first time in a library?

[Turbineguy]

34. They must be good patriots

The flag looks undamaged.

[obamanut2012]

47. I thought that, too

[Crunchy Frog]

37. I wonder how they could have learned to hate school libraries?

[Bread and Circuses]

42. Friendship Elementary School library in Deltona, FL

I wonder if the law and order republicans are going to incarcerate these hoodlums in juvenile hall.

Or NOT, because they’re white boys,

[flvegan]

43. Hopefully their parents will pony up the dough to fix their mess

before it interferes with the education of other kids that utilize this library.

I read that their moms turned them in. I'm honestly shocked about that, but good for them. I hope this is truly a case of "kids are stupid and do stupid things" and not something more.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

44. The mom's saw their pics in the news. Had no choice but to turn them in