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Recently, 75 people attended a Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting concerning the “American Idiotz,” a group of teens involved in harassing adults and children, fighting on Public Square, graffiti, underage drinking, etc.
Videos of their antics such as the trash can-firework incident can be seen on the Internet. One parent said that this happened two years ago. The terrorized neighbors did not attend the meeting because of what happened two years ago. They attended because nothing has changed since then.
These “Idiotz” harassed younger children and adults for their own amusement and Internet notoriety. Their pretentious and juvenile reasoning is that they reacted to the remarks of the children and adults. This is nonsense. Children and individual adults do not incite teenage gangs.
The council meeting occurred for two reasons. First, having known about the gang, police were not patrolling the neighborhood.
Police cannot be everywhere, but by knowing the time of the 911 calls, they can patrol the area at that given time.
Though the police are well-trained, wisdom is lacking.
Secondly, the parents are not in control. The parents should be ashamed. Either they didn’t teach their children right from wrong or those lessons were abandoned.
For example, what were the Idiotz doing outside at 3 a.m.? Years ago, when manners were practiced, you would never call on anyone after 9 p.m. This helped produce a civil society. Also, the Idiotz say that they are bored and there is nothing to do.
One of them said that he cannot wait to leave Wilkes-Barre. The reason for their boredom is not that they have nothing to do, but because they have no interests.
If they had any interests, they wouldn’t have enough time.
Adolescence is a time when childish antics are put away so that by age 18, young people will take their appropriate responsibility as members of society.
In conclusion, council must approach the mayor about the police patrols. The parents have to assume their responsibilities. Also, where is the “idiot” designation on the IQ scale? Is this why they can’t spell the word correctly?