I'm with Lazs and Elf on this one... the boy needs to be gone. Put him into whatever type enclosure you see fit, but his record says everything I need to know. This is a career criminal in the making, and the best we can do is to provide interruptions to that career. And to be blunt, we shouldn't have to wait until he kills someone after they surprise him in the process of breaking into a home.
My neighbors I talked about? Anyone in the neighborhood that was outdoors was catcalled, hooted, or had objects thrown at them. Everyone just went indoors and stayed there. This made me ill, and I decided I wouldn't, and if it was to be a confrontation, so be it.
I got out of my car one day after work, turned to pick up some trash laying in my yard, and a potato came hurling out the front door of my neighbors house, narrowly missing me.
That was it.
I have always had a trigger- I'm not a violent person by nature- but I have a very strong fight-or-flight instinct, and I gave up running a long time ago. I picked up the potato, walked over to their front door, knocked, one of the two fools at home opened the door and I handed him the potato.
"If you do that again I will have the law in."
"F*** you! mgpsn sapdjf asdfj asdf..."
(Funny thing about one of those kids, he couldn't speak clearly unless he was cursing, and then he had perfect enunciation.)
Fine. I walked across the street, but as I entered my property, the other fellow comes out the door and starts the gangsta crap on me, getting his back up, threatening me, etc.
"Show me your driver's licence." says I.
"Why?" he asks.
"Simple. If you're 18 I'm going to make your dream come true."
He yelled some more (didn't produce his license, though), and I went in and called the police. I went back outside and waited. The boys yelled at me until the police arrived, then ran in and hid. The police saw them go in, saw them looking out the back windows, but of course couldn't do anything if they didn't answer the door. I was furious.
Then I finally got smart.
"Hey, do you know they have traffic here nonstop all night? Do you also know they have a minor child with a child living in this house? Oh, you know that? The child is on file at welfare? I think I'll call welfare about that. I also know who rents the house to them, think I'll call there, too."
By 5:00 that evening the whole troop was standing on the porch talking to a detective about the drugs.
By 5:30 they were back on the porch talking to welfare.
By 6:00 the landlord had called and said they had 30 days to get out.
I don't care where they went. I know they all needed to be locked up, and there was no "program" that was going to make them all better. Time to give up on that pipe dream for career criminals.
