So, there’s this kid. Let’s call him Kid A. Kid A is walking around
the neighborhood with a bunch of friends, and of course they all think they are badasses. To show just how bad they are, they do dumb
things to impress their friends so they might gain some attention and hopefully climb the
pecking order. Kid A and his gang walk past a pond whereupon
they see ducks. Instead of throwing breadcrumbs to the majestic
mallards they throw stones at the creatures. You have to remember; those kids’ prefrontal
cortexes have a long way to go to be fully developed. Kid A has a bright idea. Steal a duck. Won’t that be funny. Kid A gets in the pond. His buddies laugh. Kid A gets his duck. He gets approval. He also gets arrested. It won’t be the last time. And if you think that’s dumb, listen to
this: 20. Ok, so we might have been a little harsh calling
Kid A dumb. Maybe the poor guy was having problems at
home. Maybe we should have given him a break. We think a 6-year old girl that was arrested
in Florida early in 2020 really should have been given a break. You heard that right. She was six and she was arrested. Ok, so she was guilty of kicking staff at
her Orlando school, but really, did she deserve to be arrested by a burly male cop and then
have zip ties placed around her feeble wrists? When the cop pulled out the ties the girl
asked, “What are those for?” He replied, “They’re for you.” She then started crying and shouted, “Help
me. Help me, please!” Is that really how to deal with tiny children? If you think that’s bad, there will be worse. The cop was fired by the way. 19. Every kid can be forgiven for stealing a candy
or two in his life, but this kid you could say took things a little far. The Ukrainian 9-year old didn’t steal candies,
but he stole his parents’ life savings to buy candies. In 2012, he found their stash of cash hidden
under a sofa. Rather than save for a rainy day, he went
straight to the local store and tried to buy around $4,000 worth of candy. The cash was recovered so the parents kept
their nest egg. 18. Back to the USA. In 2019, a 10-year old was playing dodgeball,
which is the kind of thing that you’d expect to see kids doing. During this game one of the kids didn’t
manage to doge the ball, which is also something you’d expect to see. But get this, the thrower of the ball who
hit another kid in the face ended being charged with aggravated assault. The case was dropped in the end, but only
after the mother of the child said her son had been charged because of the color of his
skin. He was African American. The kid that didn’t dodge the ball ended
up with a black eye, but you might ask if he should have been playing the game in the
first place. That’s why there is chess club. It seems he didn’t want the police involved,
telling his mom, “Mom it’s OK we’re still going to be friends.” You have to now ask if one day kids will be
appearing before a judge in relation to injuries caused by hide and seek and tag. 17. In 2018, the parents of a 10-year old autistic
boy from Texas said they were going to take legal action after their child was handcuffed. A video shows the highly distressed boy screaming
like a banshee as he struggles on the floor. The boy had been handcuffed because he’d
been lashing out, but again you might ask if cops should have had to intervene and if
he really needed to be placed in steel bracelets. He actually incurred quite a few bruises after
the incident. All this is a bit heavy. As you’ll see now, some kids just make very
silly choices. 16. You all know that school shootings are a very
real threat in the USA, in fact, they only seem to happen en masse in the U.S. That’s why if you come from this country
you don’t go around bragging to your friends that you plan to shoot up a school. If a kid in say, England, bragged about shooting
up a school his friends would think, “Yeah right, as if you could get a gun.” In the US his friends would think, “Well,
it’s been a nice life, now we’re all going to die.” In 2019, a 16-year old kid from Ohio made
a threat and posted it on Snapchat, “You aren’t even prepared for tomorrow,” he
wrote. It wasn’t the first time he’d made such
a threat. The cops later turned up to his house. Tip: If you work in a fireworks factory you
don’t joke about fire. 15. You could say this case is similar, although
we don’t think we can say the kid should have known better. The year was 2020 and the place was Colorado
Springs. A 10-year old was out in the street playing
with his toy gun. He pointed it at a few cars, and someone reported
him to the cops. They arrested him, handcuffed him, charged
him, and took his mugshot and fingerprints. His parents spent thousands of dollars on
legal costs and the kid ended up completing a community service order. As one critic put it, this was criminalization
of childhood. It was later found out that the orange toy
didn’t look anything like a real gun and the kid was only pretending to play an imaginative
version of Fortnite. 14. In 2014, a 14-year old Dutch girl went on
Twitter and posted to the official American Airlines account. She wrote, “Hello my name’s Ibrahim and
I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m
gonna do something really big.” The FBI was contacted, the girl got scared,
and she went and handed herself in to the Dutch cops. 13. That kind of thing has happened in the US,
too. Two kids in Louisiana in 2014 thought it would
be funny to troll their school on Twitter. They wrote that a bomb had been placed in
the cafeteria and another had been placed in a classroom. Maybe that was funny to the kids, but bomb
threats can’t be ignored. The Louisiana State Police Bomb Squad was
sent to the school. This is what an investigator later told the
media after they found out who sent the message, “He is 16-years-old, and he is being booked
into the Assumption Juvenile Detention Center for terrorizing [felony] and cyberstalking
[misdemeanor].” Yep, that’s not funny at all. But as you’ll see, kids have done much worse. 12. We’re guessing that some of you remember
what life was like before social media. Did you ever hear a kid say in the school
yard, “I’ll kill you,” or, “You’re dead”, or something to that effect? It didn’t usually mean much at all, but
still, if you put that kind of thing into words these days and post it to social media
you can get in trouble. It’s exactly why a 16-year old girl at Mervo
High School in Baltimore was arrested in 2020. She’d merely made a threat online to another
student. 11. We won’t delve too deep into the past only
because it’s hard to relate to. We’ll just tell you that a boy aged 8 or
9 named John Dean was arrested in 1629 in England. He’d started a fire. Kids will be kids, and don’t we all know
that many kids like playing with fire. The authorities were unhappy with young Dean’s
behavior and he was hanged by the neck. 10. Just so you know that kind of thing didn’t
only happen to boys, 15-year old Susannah Underwood was hanged for arson in England
in 1776. The next day the local Hereford Journal newspaper
didn’t write anything about her being executed at such a young age but criticized her for
not shaking hands with her master before she was hanged. 9. Back to the present day and 2015. A nine-year boy from Idaho was in big trouble. He’d stole a pack of gum from a store but
had failed to turn up to court after he was arrested. He was taken to a detention facility where
it’s said he was treated well. Hmm, he was nine. It was a pack of gum. Let that sink in. 8. Some kids do start a life of crime young. In 2020, a 12-year in Delaware stole a truck
that he evidently couldn’t drive. He was chased by the cops. He crashed twice before he was caught. Ok, back to the crazy stuff. 7. In 2014, a grand total of 60 students from
Teaneck High School in New Jersey were arrested. They broke into the school at night then then
proceeded to pee all over the place, put grease on door handles and generally just destroy
stuff. The cops turned up and not many kids could
get away. What the police found was a stinking, wrecked
school and a bunch of embarrassed kids. One cop said, “I've been a police officer
19 years, and this is the craziest thing I've ever seen.” The kids said, hey, it was just a prank. The cops said, hey, this is just a criminal
charge. 6. After watching this video, you might think
that 2014 was the year of the idiot. That year an 18-year old in Florida stole
a car. He then turned the music up loud and started
filming himself. In the video he goes through red lights; he
weaves through traffic, and on four occasions he slams into another car. In the last of those crashes the young driver
sustains serious injuries and so is airlifted to hospital. The cops at this point don’t know exactly
what has happened, so it is helpful when the hospitalized teen gets a little better and
is able to upload his driving carnage to YouTube. Not long after the police turned up to his
hospital bed and said thanks, you are charged with all the things we saw in your video. Now for something very different. 5. As you know, some teens are very, very intelligent. They might not be developed enough to understand
the consequences of their actions, but they have skillz. In 2020, it was discovered that one of the
kids behind the greatest social media hack ever was just 17. This kid from Florida along with a 19-year
old from the UK and a 22-year old also from Florida managed to hack the Twitter accounts
of Barack Obama, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and more. The best ones are coming. 4. In 2019, a middle school student from Kansas
was arrested on a felony charge after pointing a gun at someone. The thing was, it wasn’t a real gun, but
two of her fingers. You know, like when you play games as a kid
and run around shouting, “POW, POW.” The New York Times wrote that the 13 year
old was the first person in a year and a half to be arrested by cops for making a hand gesture,
although schools have reported around another dozen cases. If you think that’s weird, listen to this:
3. We looked for the youngest people we could
find who had been arrested and we came up with a 4-year who was arrested in 2010 in,
where else, Florida. He was arrested on misdemeanor criminal mischief
charges for breaking into a neighbor’s shed. We should say that he had friends with him,
aged 6, 8, 9 and 11. 2. If you think this only happens in the USA
you’re wrong. In 2019, a boy aged just 12 was arrested in
Hong Kong. He’d been protesting and had been caught
on camera by the cops. They got down to work and followed the kid
around, such a dangerous 12-year old of course. They arrested him when he was on his way to
school and he was later convicted of causing criminal damage. Of course that’s far less funny when you
realize the Chinese government arrested him because he was protesting for democracy, not
for breaking into a neighbor’s shed. 1. Ok, so we did say earlier in this show that
kids in the UK don’t usually have guns at their disposal. Even adult gangsters might find it somewhat
difficult to get a gun and they will have to pay quite a lot on the black market for
it if it is any good and is of course untraceable. That’s why British news readers were blown
away in 2011 when they read that an 11-year had been arrested on possession of a firearm. He became the youngest person in the UK to
be charged with this crime. This was a sign of the times. Drug dealers in the UK had already started
using kids to sell their drugs, often sending them to other tow
Now you need to watch, “The MOST EVIL KIDS in the History of the Mankind.” Or “Kids Behind Bars.”ns and cities. They would cross “County Lines” and like
something out of Oliver Twist, the kids would live in a house with an adult while going
out at times to deliver the drugs. Kids don’t usually grass; they don’t often
take their own stash and the cops can’t do much to them because they’re so young. It seems they are also now being armed. Scary times.
