Teens, WTF are they thinking?

[pdub]

Okay, I'll go out on a limb.

Go to the mall. Watch the kids.

They will never dig a hole with a shovel. They will never stand in one place all day doing the same thing on an assembly line. No way. They never will. What good are they? They expect everything to be given to them, and more, if that's possible.

I really really think that is not the fault of he parents. I fully believe they're all a really bad influence upon one another. Greedy greedy and selfish kids. They pick up on it at school from all the other kids, is my theory. So many parents can't possibly be so bad.

Decent parents care. But what a giant turnout of duds for kids. It's gotta be bigger than the home life. Supervised, or not.

[Scott Liggett]

Getting back to Joe's original question, I'm going to say that teenagers often are not. Thats not to say that they are stupid. Many scientists say that the mind is still developing into the late teens. I believe there is still an inability to reason on the consequences of actions. Teens act on spur of the moment, the need to belong or be cool. The possibility of dying never seems to cross their minds. It's the "It wont happen to me" mentality.

Its sad that some kids learn too late.

[sedandelivery55]

Teens are physically and mentally unable to think and use common sense. No matter what you try to teach them, it all goes out the window the second they hit 13 and doesn't return until they're in their thirties. Trust me, my sixth and last is 17 now and I'll be damned glad when she's old enough to move out.

[1988montecarloss 2]

where do they find these kids? im 19 and have never heard of anybody around the greater bangor area doing it and everybody my age i know has never even talked about it let alone think about doing it haha

[BangShift McT]

This has to be boredom in the suburbs...I've never heard of this crap either. But then again, I remember the briefing in the Army about kids huffing dog shit.

No, seriously.

[Scott Liggett]

Along the same lines as sniffing glue, inhaling whatever gas is in Cheez Whiz containers and now it's choking themselves out.

[pdub]

now this is true but the way i almost killed my self was being an idiot behind the wheel of my car wile drvifn through a corn field

Tom, I lost some high school buddies in a gruesome wreck involving a car and a high rate of speed and a telephone pole on a sharp curve in town, and everybody I knew went to the junkyard to see the car and the leftovers because that's what we did back then. No closure really, just marveling at what didn't happen to those of us who weren't in that car that night.

But I have to ask.... ......How do you get killed driving through a corn field?

We didn't have many corn fields is South Carolina, but I can assure you if there were any available, we'd have sure driven through them, like Burt Reynolds knocking down orange cones in that movie, whichever movie that was....."I've always wanted to do that."

[Mater]

deer like to sleep in them so at night with the head lights trying to hide form the cops because you where street racing down country roads you could drive right into a herd lol

had a friend total his car out that way.


you could also hit farm equipment as well that have been parked there over night. i have no idea how i kept my license through high school

[pdub]

Ahhhh, okay. Gotcha. Stuff I'dda never thought about.

Knowledge is good. Yep, don't drive through a cornfield.

I thought I was going to go all week without learning anythng new, but there it is. Thanks Tom! I like learning, as much as a lot of folks here might disbelieve.

[tedly]

This has to be boredom in the suburbs...I've never heard of this crap either. But then again, I remember the briefing in the Army about kids huffing dog shit.

No, seriously.

Wait, what the hell?!

Anyway, this is nothing new. It was going on in the late 80's when I was a teen and I'm sure it was going on before that even. It's idiotic, just like huffing paint/gas, sniffing glue, and any of the many other ways kids get a momentary rush and a quick thrill.
It's idiotic just like jumping off the highest rock you dared to into the lake at the old rock quarry was. Like seeing how far and how high you could jump your bike was. Like climbing to the top of the highest tree or the water tower or whatever was. I'm covered in scars and old broken bones from my misadventures when I was a kid, how about you? Think we were different? Not as much as you'd like to believe. I don't know about the rest of you, but I did that stuff for the momentary thrill, for the quick adrenaline rush. I like my way of getting my fix better, but I'm still very lucky I didn't break my neck.

[pdub]

I know I've helped derail this thread from the original theme, as I always do.

Teenagers doing really stupid shit.

As said, it takes the human brain about 30 years to fully develop, to be able to determine the difference between a risk and a thrill. To know the difference.

I would only guess that all of of us are mighty lucky to be alive, based on the premise stated above, not by me, but by a lot of people smarter than me.

I sure hope reincarnation is not true, because I sure wouldn't want to come back and have to go through that .... "growing up" experience again. Not that I'll ever be grown up. Being a teenager really sucked. You think you're hot shit, but in reality you don't know one tenth of what you need to know to get by in the long run. And you don't even know what you don't know. You're not even aware that you're so dumb, for lack of experience. That's the scary part.

[Nik]

I feel for the kids' parents. Losing a kid is bad enough, but it has to be especially hard when it's because of something as stupid as this.

[70chevyC-10]

Teen suicide seems even worse - kids ending their lives on purpose - very, very sad.

[Barry Donovan]

where do they find these kids? im 19 and have never heard of anybody around the greater bangor area doing it and everybody my age i know has never even talked about it let alone think about doing it haha

most fight for air around this place.. who the hell would want to choke even more.


I learned to be missing something first pressurized aircraft flight out. wo.

why don't they go find oxygen think it over.

[BangShift McT]

Teen suicide seems even worse - kids ending their lives on purpose - very, very sad.

Very, very true. Had one kid about my 9th grade year who ended it because his parents were they types that'd go ballistic if he got a low-A on a report card. They insisted he was in a sports activity, in band, in martial arts, in art classes...etc and that he excel at everything and if he didn't show interest in what they picked out for him or didn't do fantastic, they chastised him. I remember the letter they passed around school that day.

That's just one story. I've almost had my story, too. Teenage years aren't perfect for everybody.