Sounds like the drawings i found on my parent's love letters. Talk about what can't be unseen...

So one figure was about to tag the other?

Honestly, I think that mom needs to chill the fark out. Her kid was doing something illegal (and tacky, AND vulgar) and I'm pretty sure that that police visit made that kid think REALLY freaking hard about how "cool" it was to draw stupid stick figures with spray paint.

But the mom is farking it all up by saying "oh my precious little snowflake!! He was without parental supervision while the cops fingerprinted him and scared the crap out of him to keep him from doing this again!!"

Kids need to learn consequences to their actions. And if these police officers hadn't found the kids "tagging" lord only knows how many stupid penis drawings would be around town by the time that kid was 15.

Oh, not that I've read the article. Lady is overreacting.

Her son broke a law, and the police scared him. They didn't charge him and give him a juvenile record.

Penis.

Ah-tah!

I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

Spray paint? No mention.

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

"Mahurin said the officers she spoke to were polite to her, but she is scared of the ramifications this will have on her and her son in the future."

like the "Ramification" repeat offenders get?
Lighten up, Mommy.

BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

Spray paint? No mention.

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

I'm pretty sure the officers weren't going to just leave the bikes behind so they can be stolen giving mrs ghetto trash more reason to weep and gnash her teeth.

Noooo, not my precious snowflake.

Waaah, snowflakes, etc.

Bigjohn3592: THis article
was written by somone barely competent
- couldn't get the formatting right

author - barely competent
mom - barely competent
Police - well done, Andy Griffith style

Reporters aren't responsible for the Web page design, idiot. Or headlines. Or photos. Or hard copy layout.

BunkyBrewman
I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

Spray paint? No mention.

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

If the parents take the whole actions-have-consequences and respect-the-law thing seriously the kid learns to behave properly. If not, they learn what you did and probably what this kid will.

Sorry I called you an idiot, Bigjohn. That was rude, and I regret it.

/insomnia makes me grouchy

BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

So?

Spray paint? No mention.

Maybe

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

SOP to confiscate or impound vehicle used during the commisssion of a crime. This includes lawful transport to the location.

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

Who the hell are you to want. STFU

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Cardinal Bonecrusher: BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

So?

Spray paint? No mention.

Maybe

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

SOP to confiscate or impound vehicle used during the commisssion of a crime. This includes lawful transport to the location.

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

Who the hell are you to want. STFU

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Your trolling technique is weak liter.

It's "too stupid to learn to function in society" you farking dumbass. Perhaps it is you, genius, that should learn how to spell a simple three letter word.

"Trust me," Mahurin said, "I will teach him a lesson. This won't go unpunished, but the way it was handled was absolutely absurd."

I read the whole article.

Her kid got off light.

She should be grateful.

Not sure what her beef is with the cops.

Now I'm just overplaying the formatting issue in the article.

Dear Naive Mother,

Your 12 year old son does know what "tagging" is.

Sincerely

Responsible Parents Everywhere

Nai:

Kids need to learn consequences to their actions. And if these police officers hadn't found the kids "tagging" lord only knows how many stupid penis drawings would be around town by the time that kid was 15.

This, more than anything else.

Came for the stick figures. Left happy and horny!

BunkyBrewman: Spray paint? No mention.

This is the crux of the issue for me. If yes; kid got off light, and this was handled well.

BunkyBrewman: Cardinal Bonecrusher: BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and one with a penis".

So?

Spray paint? No mention.

Maybe

Oh, and the cops don't get to decide if they want to confiscate the bicycle. The boys weren't using the bikes to draw the stick figures, were they?

SOP to confiscate or impound vehicle used during the commisssion of a crime. This includes lawful transport to the location.

I'm not defending the mom or the kids, I just want some more answers.

Who the hell are you to want. STFU

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Your trolling technique is weak liter.

It's "too stupid to learn to function in society" you farking dumbass. Perhaps it is you, genius, that should learn how to spell a simple three letter word.

Bah...No trolling today. Just think you are a typical small minded POS. For some reason you think the world owes you the right to jack things up as you please.

/Attacks on syntax = Lack of conviction in substance
//Too..To...Here..Hear BFD

what? no library investigator pic?

come on, guys.

Oh, Christ. If my little shiat is off drawing, painting or whatever naughty figures on property that isn't his, I would THANK the cops for picking him up and scaring the crap out of him. Then I would go pick him up and beat his ass on top of it all. Way to not parent your kid, lady.

How about this? If you're caught tagging, they make their "one stop" at the home of the last person they caught tagging, and make you tag their place. Then awhile later, the cops show at your place and someone you've never met tags your place. Then you sit and think about how cool that was.

I hear a lot of modern urban philosophy about grafitti and tagging, but I always wonder what those same people would think if it was their house or car instead of some building or bridge that 'no one' or 'everyone' owns.

The Cops did a great job there. That kid will be scared as fark till he hits 18. I don't expect them to have any more problems with him. Mom needs to toughen the fark up be happy she hasn't been hit with the bill to repaint what her little snowflake farked up yet.

BunkyBrewman: Cardinal Bonecrusher: BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Your trolling technique is weak liter.

It's "too stupid to learn to function in society" you farking dumbass. Perhaps it is you, genius, that should learn how to spell a simple three letter word.

It's "to be smarter than they," dumbass.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: How about this? If you're caught tagging, they make their "one stop" at the home of the last person they caught tagging, and make you tag their place. Then awhile later, the cops show at your place and someone you've never met tags your place. Then you sit and think about how cool that was.

I hear a lot of modern urban philosophy about grafitti and tagging, but I always wonder what those same people would think if it was their house or car instead of some building or bridge that 'no one' or 'everyone' owns.

I should probably amend this before I get piled on. I don't hate all graffiti. Some of it is truly stunning art. I'm not talking about that.

Tagging is my real beef. It's never nice to look at. And the mentality of taggers is just retarded. True graffiti artists carefully choose a site and evaluate whether it's an appropriate place for that kind of art. Even some taggers are good about this. There was an enormous tag, done up nicely, on a derelict building here that was eventually sold and refurbed. The new owners had to take down the wall the tag was on, but they cut that part out and mounted it in the entryway of a new restaurant in the building.

But ordinary tag-every-farking-surface-in-sight tagging is just stupid. The law prescribes different responces, but I think these losers should have their own property tagged, so they can think about how cool it is.

I loved the story I read last year of the bouncer who caught a kid tagging inside a bar with a paint marker. The kid was wearing an expensive shiny jacket. You can write the rest of that yourself.

fj40dive: The Cops did a great job there. That kid will be scared as fark till he hits 18. I don't expect them to have any more problems with him. Mom needs to toughen the fark up be happy she hasn't been hit with the bill to repaint what her little snowflake farked up yet.

There's another good idea: Drag them out and make them clean it, and whatever else is there, too.

/Obscure?

Well, this kid has certainly learned his lesson...

...that he can lie to his mom and she'll defend him when he gets in trouble rather than making him accountable for his actions.

/those kids are a ton of fun to deal with by the time they're in high school

I tried to find that old SNL bit with Giuliani doing a fake PSA about how the NYPD has started painting "SUCKS" stencils under tags. They also had police 'artists' who would do up "SUCKS" in the same style as large and artistic tags.

I wish I had the Encino Man DVD so I could capture the shot where Link draws a penis on the stick figure he drew on the chalkboard.

boys have a penis
girls have a vagina

fj40dive: The Cops did a great job there. That kid will be scared as fark till he hits 18. I don't expect them to have any more problems with him. Mom needs to toughen the fark up be happy she hasn't been hit with the bill to repaint what her little snowflake farked up yet.


Correction--that kid WOULD HAVE BEEN scared as fark if his helicopter Mommy hadn't gone to the press complaining about "ramifications" and "just wanting to get this out there". Completely undermined everything the cops were trying to do.

The cops could have been real douchebags & actually charged him, but instead decided to do the right thing & just scare the crap out of him. Good on the cops, esp. the one with the foresight to assure the mother that her son was okay when she answered the door. Too bad there aren't any laws against ineffective parenting.

/BTW Farkers--remember this story the next time you start to post on a cop-bashing thread about how all cops are worthless, corrupt assholes.

/got nothing

PopeDX:
Well, this kid has certainly learned his lesson...

...that he can lie to his mom and she'll defend him when he gets in trouble rather than making him accountable for his actions.

/those kids are a ton of fun to deal with by the time they're in high school

In the article, the mom claims that she will teach the kid a lesson--that it won't go unpunished.

fj40dive:
/BTW Farkers--remember this story the next time you start to post on a cop-bashing thread about how all cops are worthless, corrupt assholes.


This. Though the cops didn't do the kid any favors--they just acted how they should given the situation.

MadAzza: BunkyBrewman: Cardinal Bonecrusher: BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Your trolling technique is weak liter.

It's "too stupid to learn to function in society" you farking dumbass. Perhaps it is you, genius, that should learn how to spell a simple three letter word.

It's "to be smarter than they," dumbass.

Your Rotsky is weak sauce.

/I'm a sexual object of the preposition!

foil helmet guy: i270.photobucket.com

That is reprehensibly vulgar! How dare you!

Bomb the suburbs.

/not obscure

I don't like taggers one bit. Half of them can't spell right, and the other half, when you can decipher the spelling and cutesy curls of the lettering (the "hand" or whatever the fark they call it), form words and such that only some other lame fark in the 'hood can decipher.

I understand the differences between tagging, graffiti, and street art. I would much rather see something akin to a Banksy (sp?) than a random tag (at least it would be quality art, and have some political message too boot). I would much rather see some of that 3D street art that I have seen pictures of (Lego brick filling in holes in walls, other stuff that makes it seem like things are coming out of holes and such). Even the end result of things like the MUTO animations are a pretty cool result of street art and grafitti. You also have the old-school throw ups on NYC and Chicago subway/train cars.

But tagging? That shiat is boring, and does nothing to help a neighborhood. When I see it, I cannot fathom what the author was really thinking. It doesn't beautify anything. It doesn't seem to have any real message (except to others with similar mentalities and lack of skills). It does nothing to raise property values. What is the purpose? Why? Who does it benefit? If it is something so great, why aren't they spraying their tags on their own residences (then again, they probably are, lazy farks)?

/hates taggers...

iSancho2k
PopeDX:
Well, this kid has certainly learned his lesson...

...that he can lie to his mom and she'll defend him when he gets in trouble rather than making him accountable for his actions.

/those kids are a ton of fun to deal with by the time they're in high school

In the article, the mom claims that she will teach the kid a lesson--that it won't go unpunished.

Yeah...sure. She lets her kid run around with his friends in the street and then is annoyed that he's in a holding cell *gasp* without adult supervision. She's arguing her son doesn't know what "tagging" is, despite the fact that he was caught doing it. Finally, despite the fact that the officers were obviously trying to impress upon her kid that what he did was wrong and could have serious consequences without actually prosecuting or being dicks about it, she's loudly whining to the news about her poor baby! I'm pretty sure her version of "teaching the kid a lesson" involves something along the lines of going to bed without a second ice cream sundae.

Ashtrey: Oh, not that I've read the article. Lady is overreacting.

Her son broke a law, and the police scared him. They didn't charge him and give him a juvenile record.

Actually, the fact that they didn't charge him is supposedly also the reason they kept his mom (and/or a lawyer) from him. But if you're not charging the kid, why are you fingerprinting him, cuffing him, processing him, the whole enchilada? Do cops now get to arrest you and process you without access to an attorney (even when you're underage) even though they never had the intention of charging you with a crime to begin with? Is that right? If that's the way the laws are written, I don't think that's right.

Besides, people in a position of authority being left alone without supervision with some underage boy, and handcuffing him? Even the Catholic church doesn't want to be seen to be doing that..

Stupid punk is old enough to know better, he deserved the scare of going to jail. He's lucky he isn't in Singapore.

wow...little kids...drawing stick figures...with stick figure genitals...in a gutter somewhere....and the police...arrest them...

one word:

TEXAS



they sure do have their priorities straight down there. could you imagine if one of these whackos was actually given any REAL power?!

/wait they made him WHAT?!
//for HOW many years?!

Keeping the bike for 6 months as evidence is ridiculous, lol... if that is really protocol, they need to fix it.

I hate taggers. That is all.

CitizenTed: MadAzza: BunkyBrewman: Cardinal Bonecrusher: BunkyBrewman: I see no mention of what the kids were actually using to "draw" the "stick figures with boobs and

/When I was young, I was brought home by the cops for a few things. What did I learn? To be smarter than them and not be caught.

To stupid to learn to function in society.

/If you don't like the laws where you live move somewhere else. I here they are pretty liberal in Darfur in regards to doing what you want.

Your trolling technique is weak liter.

It's "too stupid to learn to function in society" you farking dumbass. Perhaps it is you, genius, that should learn how to spell a simple three letter word.

It's "to be smarter than they," dumbass.

Your Rotsky is weak sauce.

/I'm a sexual object of the preposition!

Not a Rotsky. Finish the sentence if you can't see it. "... to be smarter than them are" doesn't make sense. "... to be smarter than they" is correct.

It scares me that people don't understand this.

sup /b/?

MOAR!