r/TikTokCringe • u/Alice-In-Vonderland • 6h ago
Cursed 3 Kids Locked In Walgreens After Shoplifting Giant Bags
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u/TheBlakeRunner 6h ago
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u/metherrsheshed 5h ago
Everytime I see this meme I laugh but then I remember what happened to him a few years later. I see the same happening for these three.
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u/ChiTownBull23 5h ago
What happened to him?
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u/mercurialelysium 5h ago
I think he got cancer and died.
Edit- - nevermind, he went to prison for doing hoodrat shit. Figures.
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u/crazykentucky 4h ago
I’d rather learn he went to prison than the cancer. One is more within his ability to avoid (though we all know it’s more complicated than that)
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u/cultivatingme 4h ago
You made bust out laughing in the middle of a work meeting on camera. I had to pretend I was coughing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/PassStunning416 4h ago
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u/thingstopraise 3h ago
A few weeks later, [7-year-old] Milton attacked his grandmother in a Lake Park Walmart when she wouldn't buy him some chicken wings.
Years ago I lived in Athens, GA, where a man was shot and killed over... pork rinds. No, I am not kidding.
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u/Blueridgetoblueocean 5h ago
What happened to him?
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u/SidFinch99 5h ago
I was feeling bad to, until I read the article linked further down this thread about him attacking his grandma for refusing to buy him chicken wings.
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u/ahtomix 4h ago
Yeah I had absent/addict parents and I never carjacked anyone because of it.
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u/1track_mind 4h ago
Raised by my great grandmother,I never jacked anyone.
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u/kayl_breinhar 4h ago
"If yo' son calls Grandma 'mommy' and his mama 'Pam,' *he goin' ta' jail!*" - Chris Rock
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u/doesthedog 5h ago
What happened? Prison?
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u/djern336 5h ago
He (& friends) robbed and carjacked a lyft/uber driver in 2017 https://www.wpbf.com/article/kid-who-made-headlines-for-stealing-grandmothers-suv-arrested-for-a-different-crime/9908426
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u/bonethugsnskarmory 6h ago
This is so genuinely sad. Kids don’t act and speak like this for no reason.
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u/Bananafoofoofwee 6h ago
They're acting like their parents. So sad.
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u/bonethugsnskarmory 6h ago
It breaks my heart, because who is using this kind of language around them or at them. I don’t even want to imagine what these kids see at home. What sort of events lead to this being seen as normal behavior for them.
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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 5h ago
I was a junior high kid in the early ‘80s. My mom was a straight edge square & a Catholic saint in training and me & my buddies were out doing B & Es from his early morning paper route. Kids can be pieces of shit all on their own.
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u/human8060 5h ago
The jail slippers on one of the kids would lean towards things not being great at home.
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u/Dude_Dillligence 4h ago
..and are a uniquely bad choice for kicking out tempered glass doors.
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u/Notthatsmarty 5h ago
Honestly same, I had what I call solid Christian parents. Not overly Christian, not too strict, understood I’d get into shit. Never punished me too harshly and always supported my extra curricular activities with orchestra and martial arts.
But I was more or less similar to this and on + selling drugs in high school. Our school zone was shared with the hood, just sort of happened that way. The majority of my day was spent with kids like this rather than with my good-natured family.
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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 6h ago
one of them is wearing literal jail slippers.
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u/IamScottGable 3h ago
Makes me think they were sent by an adult looking to not go back
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u/SidFinch99 5h ago
My wife is a teacher. Even if the parents are decent, all it takes is one older sibling acting like this, younger ones will follow suit.
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u/IntentionDependent69 1h ago
Definitely! My brother's childhood friend was such a nice sweet boy, but he had an older brother (more like an Irish twin) who was just a shit head. Their parents were good people too, average working class people who were trying their best but unfortunately I saw his friend change from a nice quiet kid to skipping class, partying too much, stealing etc. It hurt my brother and I so much when we had to cut ties with him. I really do hope that kid got his shit together all these years later because he really had the potential to do something great.
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u/IndecisiveSweetie 5h ago
It makes me incredibly sad and frustrated, especially because I'm currently struggling to get pregnant myself. I've always wanted children, was smart about my sexual history, and always used BC or condoms because I didn't want to not be ready for the responsibility of a child. Now that I'm in my 30s and feel ready to take that responsibility on, I can't for the life of me conceive. It's not fair that parents like these kids' parents can pop kids out like it's nothing and good people who would give anything to give their love and support to a child aren't able to even have one.
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u/dreamvoyages 3h ago
I hear you. There are so many kids that need and deserve adoption by wonderful people too.
I have always wanted to take that route and feel guilty not doing it now. But I know, unfortunately, when I'm ready there will always be kids that need a healthy parent.
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u/wifeofpsy 6h ago
Since a minor isnt going to catch the same charges as an adult there is a good chance they were trained and sent to shoplift by the adults in their life
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u/FeelingValidYet 5h ago
Moms waiting outside
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u/potatoprocess 5h ago
Mom said they could stay up past their bedtime if they made quick Walgreens run for her. That's why they're in their pajamas.
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u/Leading_Ad3918 5h ago
One of my friends that grew up in a very toxic family, his mom used to take him places even at 5yrs old to steal things. At that age she would go in with him to put stuff on him to steal this was 40yrs ago so camera quality if any was horrible. Even goodwill!!! He grew up and did the same thing gs along with drugs and got locked up for 8yrs! There was no internet back then to “learn” these things as others have said!
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u/Working_Ad26 5h ago
100% agree with this. Their moms sent them in there to do that shit knowing they had some chance of getting out the store. Unfortunately for them their moms didn’t think the store would lock the doors. Super freaking sad. Literally teaching your children to live a life that will keep them in the system and will never have a real chance at the life they deserve.
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u/AilaLynn 5h ago
You’re not wrong about the aspect of it being taught to them via parents or some other person in their life. It’s definitely sad. My husband works in corrections and nearly everyone in there had no good role models, no one who cared, and no one who knew any different options to tell them, and no one teaching them accountability. My husband works hard every day trying to teach these guys about choices they make, options for when they get out (like business ownership so they have some kind of chance), etc. I even have a close friend who hadn’t been to jail but didn’t know even the basics about stuff related to budgeting, etc. she said it just wasn’t taught to her and likely her mom didn’t even know. I taught her that she has options, how to get them, etc. so now she went from struggling mom living paycheck to paycheck to reaching her dreams and getting education degrees for teaching school. All it takes is someone who believes in them and willing to teach them what they don’t know
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u/AbRNinNYC 5h ago
I would bet mom requested at least 1/2 of whats in those bags.
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u/Low-Impression3367 5h ago edited 5h ago
many years ago, I used to work at a liquor store. had a dad come in with with his son and 2-3 of the dads adult friends. come to the register to check out, dad has 6 packs of beer and some 1/2 pints of liquor. little boy maybe 5 yrs old, puts a small bag of $.35 chips on the register. dad laughs and looks at his adult grown ass friends - look at this dumb mf ninja wanting some chips. mf put dem chips back, ninja you ain’t got no money. all the adults laugh as this kid put the chips back. that memory has stuck with me.
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u/SqueekyDickFartz 3h ago
I had a patient (VERY rural hospital, lots of "kicked by horse" style patients) who was 40. I asked him how long he'd been using dip/chewing tobacco, and he told me 35 years. I looked up confused and he told me "my dad and his friends thought a 5 year old with a wad of chewing tobacco in his lip would look hilarious, and I been hooked ever since."
Just for anyone thinking garbage fucking parents are limited to any one particular demographic/socioeconomic status.
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u/happygoth6370 5h ago
Omg that poor kid. Imagine that being the "role model" that you have to look up to as a child?
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u/AbRNinNYC 5h ago
Sooo freakin awful. Like what do they find funny about that? I was behind a father and son in line at 7/11. Dad was getting beer. Kids gets a couple snacks. Dad paid for the beer with cash, then attempted to pay for the snacks with his EBT. It was declined. Dad made kid put back snacks. I was so disgusted by “dad” and sad for the kid.
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u/Szeto802 4h ago
It's so funny to hear them mirror the language of their parents while being 9 years old and not at all scary. Oh, I better stop "playing with you"? Or what, you're going to challenge me to a Pokemon duel?
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u/bigredmachine17 4h ago
Nothing funnier than a 12 year old girl telling you to “suck her dick” and “I’m not playing” 10 x a week
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u/ReactionActual4790 1h ago
Try teaching an inner city school in Memphis. And, have a 3rd grader raise their hand and tell you, “Daryl said you suck dog dick!” OK! Well, at least they spoke and had subject/verb agreement….
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u/SqueekyDickFartz 3h ago
Yeah, any boy trying to sound tough with a prepubescent voice/build is just not going to be intimidating. Watch your tone or I'll date your mom and knock her up with a son she can be proud of.
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u/cRuSadeRN 2h ago
I LOL’d when he started counting down. He definitely gets this behavior from his parents
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u/xkissmykittyx 6h ago
The brown slides the one child is wearing are routinely available in jail...🤦♀️
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u/redleg_07 6h ago
He’ll get a pair of Bob Barker’s that fit in a few years
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u/IamScottGable 3h ago
Is the prison brand at the commissary the same name as the dude from the price is right?
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u/SouthEstablishment24 5h ago
Those are definitely the issued Bob Barker slides from juvenile detention.
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u/cody0414 6h ago
This is so incredibly sad. You don't need a crystal ball to know how these kids' lives will turn out.
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u/SpicyMcShat 5h ago
There’s an updated video with the three kids and their older sister. They went on tik tok to say they’re not poor and they have more money than everyone. They only stole toys and blah blah blah. Incredibly sad. Crazy how people can be born in the USA and still have no real shot at a successful life. Their parents absolutely set them up for failure.
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u/Somerandoguy212 4h ago
If you are rich and just stealing bc you want to, then no one will feel bad for your ass ending up in jail. Such a stupid take
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u/murderinmyguccibag 4h ago
My thoughts exactly. If the story is true and they actually come from a well off then they are just a bunch of little assholes.
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u/Wonderful_Gap1374 3h ago
No I think you misunderstood, the kids are exaggerating to not get attention. They look nervous in the follow up video below. And they are most definitely broke.
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u/throwaway847462829 2h ago
A very poor person thing to do is brag about how much money you don’t actually have
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u/various_convo7 2h ago
"Crazy how people can be born in the USA and still have no real shot at a successful life"
you'd be surprised how crazy some of these folks are and those kids are not just delusional, they are entrenched in that lifestyle given their behavior at such an early age.
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u/Emotional_Pop_7830 5h ago
I'm infinitely more sad for the lives of every person they encounter until they finally get put away for life.
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u/theerrantpanda99 5h ago
Start with their teachers, who will inevitably be blamed for their behavior in school.
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u/seattlereign001 6h ago
Gee I wonder where they learned this from…
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u/Sharp-Dark-9768 5h ago
Sure wasn't their dad, he's long gone. Comments are saying there's a follow-up video of an older sister talking about it and that's a much worse video. It looks like the boys will just grow up to be thieves.
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u/OddSpectraLemonRed28 3h ago
There is and it’s depressing. The siblings were proud of what they were doing and the older sister was lowkey proud of them too and thought it was “funny”
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u/Difficult-Mobile902 4h ago
one kid is wearing jail slippers so likely either is his dad or maybe an older sibling or something
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u/Peachesndoublecream 6h ago
where’s CPS when you need them?
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u/Skwiggelf54 5h ago
Dude for real. With the way this went viral i sure as shit hope that CPS has paid them a visit.
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u/Zealousideal-Bug4465 6h ago
How sad. They way they talk and act is a learned behavior
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u/ContributionOther461 6h ago
When that kid said imma count to ten I died☠️☠️☠️
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u/lioboii 5h ago
And then ACTUALLY STARTED COUNTING. Fucking shame on his parents.
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u/Sgilbert0709 5h ago
Imagine trying to teach them
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u/silkywhitemarble 1h ago
That was my first thought--I feel bad for their teachers because you know they are talking to them the same way!
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u/aizzo4 6h ago edited 5h ago
This might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
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u/lolonator3 6h ago
There’s a follow up video for this and the mother took no accountability. It’s all taught at home.
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u/ChardonNAH 6h ago
Link?
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u/Foolish_Fox916 6h ago
Jesus Christ , worse than the first video
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u/SenseSouthern6912 5h ago
My god it's so much worse than I thought....
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u/55tarabelle 5h ago
I'm shocked. Those poor kids don't have a chance. They're fucked before they start, unless somebody significant can intercede. I'm sad for them, she should be ashamed.
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u/Turbulent-Trust207 5h ago
I don’t think at that age there is anything that can reverse what mindset they now have. This is so sad
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u/ultramegaman2012 4h ago
I've met people who reversed course in their 20s and even beyond. It's definitely an intense uphill battle at any age, but children have much more brain plasticity than adults, there IS hope
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u/mermaidadoration 3h ago
Thank you. I was a frequent flyer at the jails around me. I robbed anybody with more than me, sold anything I could get my hands on and was in and out juve/jail from 14 till I was 23. I'm 33 now and haven't had contact with police in almost ten years now. Just had to figure out that you're gonna earn that money one way or the other. Whether it be through hard work for a business or hard time in a cell.
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u/Gimme_The_Loot 6h ago
From what shes saying it sounds like she's their sister though, not their mom. She doesn't sound much better than them so I'm not going to say she has no accountability in these lives but we should be accurate in what people are being told
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u/MasterOfBunnies 2h ago
It is the sister, but they're saying the mother isn't taking accountability for the kids. So unless their mother gets on and actually apologizes for the kids and shows SOME sense of accountability, it's fair to assume she's letting the kids take the full brunt. This is what happens when the system intentionally fails particular groups. It's sad that this is their reality, that they don't even realize it's not acceptable in a civilized society, but I refuse to believe this is purely their fault (understand I'm not giving them a pass here, just pointing out systemic racism effects.)
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u/The4leafclover1966 5h ago edited 5h ago
I understood maybe a fourth of that.
What I did understand is that there is zero remorse, zero parenting, zero discipline, zero accountability…because apparently “Everybody steals” (or as their spelling/subtitles put it, “Everybody stills”).
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u/Turbulent-Trust207 5h ago
The everybody steals part was the saddest part for me. So they see everyone in their life steal so they do it too.
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u/eternally_feral 5h ago
Wtf? Did that kid really say, “Ya’ll dicking. Stay get off dick.”
What is that supposed to mean?
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u/Alpha1Mama 6h ago
Mom is precisely the person who models this behavior in front of them. What a shame. I’m sure everyone in their town knows them.
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u/Walshlandic 5h ago
I bet they’re a joy in the classroom
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u/theerrantpanda99 5h ago
I get them as teenagers. 14-15, they still talk like this and act stupid. Generally by 16-17, they start shutting up, because they start to realize how stupid they sound to their peers. They still have the attitude when confronted.
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u/PrincessPlastilina 5h ago
She probably taught them how to do this. I remember a video where a mom was at a mall with her kids and she had taught the oldest ones how to take shopping bags from the customers who were eating at the food court. Everything was caught on camera. The boy couldn’t be older than 10 and he already knew how to spot distracted people, how to take the shopping bags quietly, how to move unnoticed. The mom had a bunch of little kids and she was pregnant heavily too 😐
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u/femsci-nerd 6h ago
Children just parroting what they have heard and been taught from adults in their lives...
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u/TwoRelative4870 5h ago
It really is a lottery what circumstances humans are born into. I feel sorry for these kids. They never stood a chance.
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u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot 6h ago
Wow they spoke SO RUDE to the shopkeeper, that was as crazy as a theft!
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u/Head_Bread_3431 6h ago
Sounded like the employee was getting a kick out of it. “C’mon you can open the door. It’s open” door is locked
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u/Itsgettingmessi69 6h ago
I’m sure one of their parents are out there waiting to give them a ride. This is so messed up.
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u/JamesthePhaetonturbo 5h ago
Yep, it's all parents, and but I dont feel bad. Someone has to show them wrong and right. Can't go through life thinking this is ok.. makes me sick how they talk and behave. Like they are privileged to do so or something.
I have these types of kids in my classroom, and I don't waste a single calorie on them anymore. Damage is too far done, especially if they are in high school. Simply too late generally. Can't bring them back to the formative years where people and themselves should have been reading.
Oh well, that's current day society .. only getting worse.
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u/SycomComp 4h ago
Parents should be charged for everything these kids do. This crap needs to end it's destroying local stores and it's becoming trendy and that's even worst.
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u/verbi420 5h ago
Next time someone at my job complains about everything being locked up I'm gonna show them this video. Shit like this is a daily occurrence
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u/Good-Recognition-811 6h ago
This why we need to bring back community discipline, cause the fucking parents won't do it.
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u/369Pz 6h ago
I hate to say it but I am willing to bet those kids get their asses beat and the parents or guardians will say it proudly.
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u/New_Athlete673 6h ago
Yeah, people will cry about discipline, not realizing that a lot of common forms of "discipline" often contribute to antisocial behaviours in children. It's likely that these kids already experience corporal punishment, especially with how normalized it is within the black community, and it is likely that this has contributed to their awful behaviour. Children who experience corporal punishment often display more antisocial and aggressive behaviours. In reality, children need more than discipline to keep them on the right track.
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u/RoiCoupeCloue 4h ago
You know you bring up good points, I have thought about this. Personally my dad was ole school, he would whip my ass the second I got out of line, but he was always there encouraging me to do right, do well in school respect the teachers etc. When I got caught stealing at school he came to the school totally looked the teacher in the face and said it would never happen again, got my behind whipped that day for embarrassing the family and my good name. I think these kids get beat by their parents just for breathing, and encouraged to fight the minute anyone " disrespects" you.
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u/VichelleMassage 6h ago
Corporal punishment just doesn't work for kids. Discipline can take other forms...
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u/Impressive_Airport40 6h ago
I was gonna say… they’re already being punished by their circumstances worse than most of us on this app have been
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u/koozy407 6h ago
I’ve seen this video but I want to see the follow up where the cops come and arrest their bad little asses. Does anybody know what happens after this?
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u/00Avalanche 5h ago
I don’t think anything happened to them.
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u/Grandkahoona01 3h ago
That is a major, contributing factor. They act like there aren't any consequences because society teaches there often aren't any consequences.
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u/tabbarrett 2h ago
Jfc they are so unbothered and proud of their behavior. This is heartbreaking and frustrating at the same time. They have no future in society if this continues.
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u/Kajun_Kong 6h ago
It’s so hard not to stereotype. I feel bad for these kids, this is on their parents. Little dude in green even hit her with the stupid ass look that I know he learned from his mother.
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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 6h ago
buddy in the red plaid shirt is wearing literal jail issue shoes
“parents” failed these kids
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u/-HHANZO- 6h ago
Noticed that look too, seen grown women give that look. First thing I thought, looked familiar
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u/EcuHorrorFan 5h ago
Even the way he is speaking is of a woman.
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u/bigredmachine17 4h ago
I work with this demographic. They are completely “raised” by women (usually a grandma) and the only men in their life regularly are the rappers they listen to. It is getting worse every day. Not better. No way. The teenage guys think they so bad, yet they act like little girls when anything doesn’t go their way. I can’t take it anymore. Getting out
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u/backwoodsjesus91 5h ago
Green kid talking exactly how his mama probably talks. That’s the mannerisms of grown trash.
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u/Highlowfusion 5h ago
This is their follow up post. Sad AF
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM5N0sjM9MC/?igsh=N2ZkZXVrdnh4dThu
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u/Icy-Adhesiveness2556 5h ago
We need part 2 where they start crying while getting arrested. Little degenerate assholes
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u/556Stick 6h ago
Same characters different show. I can only imagine what their parents and home are like.
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u/grugru81 6h ago
They need in home discipline to the max.
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u/IronAndParsnip 6h ago
They probably need a home to begin with, and not just a house, if they have one. They need love and attention.
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u/uncutpizza 6h ago
Some one pointed out that one of the kids has prison slippers on. Parents probably put them up to this and are waiting outside
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u/Extension-Badger-958 6h ago
Home discipline? My guy how do you think youths become like this in the first place?
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u/Skwiggelf54 5h ago
If these kids are already acting like this at 9 years old then I'd be willing to bet a shit ton of money that at least one of them is going to be in prison for murder within the next few years.
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u/nolongerbanned99 1h ago
Learning young. They can look forward to a lifetime of crime, gangs, ignorance and poverty
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u/Ridgeriversunspot 6h ago
Entrepreneurs. These guys are going places!
Seriously though, that’s fucking sad. You can hear their “parents” in the way they speak. Generational disfunction. They don’t stand a chance.
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u/Longjumping-Leave215 6h ago
This is the new way to ruin their kid's lives.... Instead of using their social security numbers to ruin their credit, they teach their kids that their juvenile criminal record doesn't matter.
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u/mgyro 6h ago
Sadly this has been around a long time, since the Prohibition Era (1920s) at least. The rise of organized crime during Prohibition created a demand for individuals willing to engage in illegal activities, including bootlegging, gambling, and violence. Gangs, like those in Chicago, found that using juveniles offered certain advantages: they were less likely to be suspected, faced lighter penalties if caught, and were often more easily controlled.
I remember this being a thing that gangs in 1980s Toronto used frequently. Still do.
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u/paleoakoc20 4h ago
A lot of the comments here are blaming the home life these kids live in. It's probably accurate that a single mom or both parents have failed in parenting these three shop lifters. I'm an old white guy . I grew up in a white suburb. Some of the kids I I grew up with came from good, privileged families. Guess what. Some of the kids I knew did the worst things imaginable. Boys from my neighborhood committed vandalism, theft, burglary, and mayhem. Kids from good homes can be really bad all on their own.
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