You might not, but someone in Broward County, Florida did. 15 year old Michael Brewer owed a friend $40 for a video game, the unpaid debt led to the “friends” stealing Michael’s father’s bike. Michael naturally told authorities and the friend who stole the bike was apprehended on Sunday. This led his “friends” to retaliate by covering Michael in rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire.
Luckily Michael survived because of a local resident who used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. Michael then ripped off his shirt and proceeded to jump into the complex’s swimming pool. It’s a good thing someone was there to help him out. It could have ended up a lot worse if they weren’t there. Sadly, Brewer will more than likely spend the next 5 months of his life in a hospital. One of the police officers, Sgt. Steve Feeley had this to say about the kids who were arrested for this hanus act,
“A couple of them last night were laughing about it,” he said. “One of them arrested today seems genuinely sorry about it.”
Laughing about it just seems disgusting and cruel. As for the one who is “genuinely sorry,” it’s a little to late for that, shouldn’t you have thought before you acted? It seems like kids today don’t value friendship the way older generations do.
Kids today are getting progressively worse with each generation in my opinion. We can sit here and point fingers at who or what is to blame, but what it comes down to is the parents lack of control over their children and a lack of discipline. When I say discipline, I don’t mean hitting the children, there are other ways to punish your children for wrong doings. The boys who lit their friend on fire are about to learn this.
Police: Juveniles Laughed After Setting 15-year-old Friend on Fire [CNN via Kotaku, Thanks DJ!]
To answer your question yes I would set my friend on fire for 40 buck, but you guys would never find out about it
Its true, if you go to some of the middle schools around were i live, its all little brats. Every one of them think they can make it alone and without there parents. They dont value life and how fragile it is. They dont just treat there parents like crap but some of there so called “friends” They dont give a crap about anybody else but themselves. Also i can’t stand when kids say they hate there parents or there acting like a b*tch.
talk about friendship..
It’s all about the “lulZ” with some kids these days, that’s why they find comedy in others misfortunes. I agree though, parents are failing at raising decent human beings. We are creating a society where we no longer care about our fellow man. As long as we get “ours”, then to hell with everyone else. It’s sad.
I am appalled at these disgusting excuses for human beings.
I’m so sick and fucking tired of seeing cocky little kids run riot doing what they want and the parents not giving a shit or in other cases it’s not always the parents fault as when they try to discipline their kids they are threatened with the police and legal action.
Seriously WTF?! Kids have too much authority now both at home and in school and think they can do what they want.
Kids today need a good fucking slap, put them in bed for 8pm and ground them for a month like when I was a kid.
On the subject of these twats they need spit roasting and see if they think it’s funny.
END OF RANT! >:(
I live in Broward County this is just sad. If you don’t believe me I live in Weston Fl and went to Cypress Bay Highs Schol
this is disgusting. these arnt friends , these guys are just jicks.
We need the days back where parents actually discipline their children. These days if someone is caught scolding their child for something they get hunted down for child abuse.
With the current ‘workworkworkwork’ attitude of some parents nowadays, I can see why the children of the new generation get progressively worse. Without a guiding hand, or parents to show them what’s good or wrong instead of being busy with work all the time, kids will just do stuff like this.
…which is of course, extremely disgusting. Why the fudge would you lit someone on fire?
wow this is getting out of hand, we need to go back to the days where kids got their asses whooped for doing stupid shit like this
Yeah next we’ll be feeding people to lions! oh wait that happened already. I’m truly sick of this “kids today” bullshit because society has a long way to go before its Roman times bad.
Remember shitty parents will die and the bastards they raise will grow up to be decent people(hopefully) and have kids they love and care about. Society is a cyclical thing, out with old and in with the new.
I agree, but if we keep on the current course, we’ll be there faster than we want to be moe.
I disagree, children of this generation are being raised differently, their parents arent shitty because they hit them and stuff, they are shitty because they have no control. It’s a process that will happen.
I dont see it Cycling and going back to the way it was, I only see it getting worse.
Wow, kids these days. I wonder what the parents of those kids are thinking right now,”Wow I cant believe he did that…. oh well at least he’s out of my hair now”. Now because of what those kids did to the victim, his life is forever change. If i was that kid who got burned, I would totally make sure that those punks get like 20+ years in jail or something
That is just fucking crazy! I am seriously speechless, which doesn’t happen much…lol…Wow! lol
This is just sicking, I mean I don’t think “friends” would set one of their friends on fire over 40 bucks. These kids who laughed should be subjected to psychiatric care, cause they are not fit to be in the general public. This is just sad and horrible to hear
“…the parents lack of control over their children and a lack of discipline. ” Very true Kreyg.
of course it’s true. You ever see the way kids run all over their parents these days? In public, it’s the kids controlling the parents. Not the parents controlling the kids (The way it should be!)
A-Fucking Men Kreyg!
It’s a good thing my parents raised me the right way, or else I might have ended up like that, too.
kids these days are fucking crazy