Is this the way it is now?

[Aggie_Ama]

Lately my husband and I have had problems with teens speeding on our residental street, throwing things at us when riding, swerving at us and just generally not being good citizens. We try to remember being 16-18 and dismiss it as being kids. Although I must say the worst thing I did was break a park curfew and speed on a highway as a kid.

So last night DH was talking to the neighbors and found out their house had been used for a party by local teens while they were on vacation. They had asked someone to drop by and feed their cats, the lady did but didn't know her son stole their house key and threw a party there! My neighbors had a well stocked liquor cabinet that was emptied, her underwear drawer had been complete ruffled through (ick) and other things were left out of place. Luckily the house was not completely trashed but smelled of smoke inside.

Apparently the parents of the kids found out when the cops were called and had given her $300 in gift cards to replace the underwear. I would have never done anything like that. I didn't have friends that would but maybe we were just not ones to test the limits?

The neighbors also think local police like to turn a blind eye on many of these behaviors because the boys are on the championship team. *Supposedly* the cops that came by didn't confirm the kids partying lived there or issue tickets for MIP? This is all second hand on that and juvenile arrests would not be published. I am assuming this is just a few bad apples, kids not thinking or something. I generally like to believe kids are good and not listen to the doom and gloom media description of them.