Prank turns deadly for Arkansas teen

[urfvrtweapon]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Police say a 48-year-old Arkansas man shot and killed a 15-year-old girl Saturday in a prank gone wrong, reports CBS affiliate KTHV.

Adrian Broadway was fatally shot just before 1 a.m. Saturday after police say she and six other teens dumped leaves and other trash on a car outside the Little Rock home of 48-year-old Willie Noble

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[maladaptive]

I don't really see where any property was damaged. "Leaves and other trash" suggests it was trash similarly harmless as leaves. Given that they're friends with Noble's teenage son especially, I can see this happening in my circle of friends as a teen. If Noble had been any of our fathers, it'd end with "son, you clean that shit up right now." Not gunfire.

And this generation isn't any more prank-driven than any other. In fact, kids now are more straight-edge than ever, the crime rate's been dropping for years. It's more that teens are still teens than any new problem.

Sorry for all the edits, the correction I made was to a totally irrelevant factoid I tossed out there and realized I was derailing the point of my own comment.

[leaf_kunoichi]

Another story mention they used mayo and eggs while can cause damage to the paint. (Or remove any sap on the car. Lol). Still not that bad.

I think teens today are seen as causing more damage and pulling more stupid pranks because they are able to, and are dumb enough to, record it and put it on the web.

[hammersxstrings]

yeah i was gonna say, about the generation thing...i think it appears maybe more prevalent, because of social media and what not, but i doubt it is. i would even be willing to wager that sometimes, the video stuff backfires on them (like the case of that football player's home, with the party the kids threw). it'll get them caught...

[chaya]

1. This isn't a generational thing in the least. School-aged and even college-aged kids have been doing stupid shit for centuries.
2. Why the fuck are we talking about how kids "need an intervention" on pranking when the article is about a man that shot a kid to death.

[chaya]

But your comment to maladaptive doesn't make sense. You more or less agree that pranking isn't new, and then say that the internet is somehow to blame for kids not thinking of consequences. Before the internet existed kids were leaning out of cars and knocking over mailboxes with baseball bats. No internet necessary to make kids do dumb shit. The kids and the dumb shit kids do hasn't changed. And American adults sure as shit had guns back then too.

[chaya]

Kids playing jokes has been a theme in several needless shootings. Not the majority by any stretch, but definitely several. You know what's involved in 100% of the needless shootings, though, is needless shooting.

[idemandjustice]

Well said.

[idemandjustice]

I don't think these pranks are new. I did my share of TPing as a kid. And we generally did help each other clean it up afterward. This is just awful and fucked up, not at all something that should be an expected consequence of this kind of behavior.

[nextdrinksonme]

This generation? Playing pranks on friends or teachers you don't like or people who give out crappy candy on Halloween, etc, is a tradition old as dirt. Soaping windows, TPing trees, forking yards (where you put plastic forks throughout the yard, which is annoying to mow over), corning (throwing hard corn at the side of a house, which just makes a lot of noise in the middle of the night), egging houses, shaving cream in mailboxes, wrapping a car in saran wrap, etc etc etc. None of this is anything new. Heck, what do you think "Trick or Treat" means? Or what Devil's Night is? Or April Fools Day?

What is new is that kids are being murdered over it, which is not at all the prankster's fault.

And dumping leaves on a car? That is not even close to damaging property. It's not like they were playing mailbox baseball.