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Teen escapes knife-wielding bike thieves on path near Alewife
By adamg on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 5:47pm
Arlington Police report an 18-year-old riding a bicycle on the path near Thorndike Field around 9 p.m. last night was set upon by two guys who tried to take bike - only she was able to pedal away.
The first suspect was described as a white male, approximately 6'4" wearing dark cargo pants, a white T-shirt, possibly Nike sneakers, with dark hair with buzz cut and razor stubble. The second suspect was also a white male, approximately 6" also with a buzz cut wearing a dark blue T-shirt with dark sweat pants with a neatly trimmed beard.
The Arlington Police Department will have additional patrols in the area, both as a community policing effort for cyclists and as a deterrent for would-be robbers.
Separately, police report arresting a 17-year-old on charges he robbed a man walking on the path last month. The teen was charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery.
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Bad area. Once I was picking
Bad area. Once I was picking someone up at the station late at night and I accidentally drove into the busses only part (gosh i am such a fool) and quickly turned around to go to the proper pick up area and a family of thugs (mom, son, and grand kids) crossed paths with me as I was leaving bus part and called me a dumb POS and blocked me from moving and surrounded my car. I was not scared a beat down but was afraid it would turn into an uncomfortable situation. Such a sketch area...
grandma beat down?
Either there's way more to this story that you aren't telling or this is total fabrication.
18 year olds are legally adults
So please do us a favor and stop referring to them as "teens", which implies somebody much younger to the average person.
Really
Tell that to the liquor store clerk and see how far it gets you.
Tell it to a judge or
Tell it to a judge or military recruiter....
So we agree
So we agree that 18 year olds have some, but not all, of the rights and obligations of adults?
17 year old convicted of murder
= life WITH parole. 18 year old convicted of murder = life WITHOUT parole. Good enough for the argument of not calling an 18 year old a teen.
And my example is far more arbitrary than the issue of what the legal drinking age should be.
True
But they're also old enough to be ground up in various far-away lands in the name of crude oil, soooo tough call there
Nanny State
I agree. 18 you are emancipated. You should be fully entitled to buy and drink alcohol and tobacco products. Ask the nanny staters why they lobbied to raise the drinking age and why they continue to want to baby adults.
It used to be 18 in the 70s.
It was a compensation for going off to Vietnam.
Then it drifted back to 21 by the time Reagan was elected and the Fed under him arm twisted states into a 21 restoration as a condition for getting highway money.
Since then the decision has largely been driven by highway death stats and insurance industry concerns.
"Teens" implies "teens.".
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A 17 year old is a juvenile
A 17 year old is a juvenile in MA - which means there's no real punishment for horrible crimes like armed robbery - to me, juvenile implies a teen.
I'm pretty sure 18...
I'm pretty sure 18 is spelled: "eighteen."
Way to deliberately miss the
Way to deliberately miss the point.
A teen is a teen
There is no legal designation for 'teen.'
You're either an adult or an adolescent according to law. Teen is therefore just that: an age ending in -teen. Seriously. Get over it.
To me, "teen" implies someone
To me, "teen" implies someone whose age ends in "teen", which means someone who has had their thirteenth birthday and not yet had their twentieth.
There are a variety of different laws and legal statuses that kick in at various ages (ages at which you may work at different jobs, which starts even before your teens, drivers license age, age used to define statutory rape, age used to determine when someone can or cannot be tried as a juvenile, age when you can join the armed forces, age when someone can vote, age when someone can drink, age when someone can rent a car, age when you can run for President), which are all somewhat arbitrary. Different people also develop at different rates; some people have to start acting as an adult even early in their teens, getting a job and supporting themselves and their family, while some people continue to live with and be supported by their parents even well into their 30s. Alexander the Great reigned as regent at the age of 16, putting down a Thracian revolt, and founded a city in his own name all while firmly in territory that we'd call "teen".
So, using the term "teen" to mean anything other than "someone between the ages of 13 and 19, inclusive" is already fairly sloppy thinking. Complaining about someone using the term "teen" to refer to someone who is 18, just because they now have a few age based rights and responsibilities that they didn't have a few months earlier, is not particularly helpful; they could be anything from a high school junior who's been held back a year back in the day, and identify more with high-schoolers that you seem to associate with the word "teen", or they could be the head of their household who's working three jobs to support their family.
Now, based on the current structure of our society, it's more likely that they're a college freshman, being supported by their parents and a large amount of student loan debt, and only a few months out from having been in high school. But just because that's the most likely doesn't mean those other two extremes are not possible either.
Just use the word "teen" for its literal meaning, and try to make fewer assumptions based on it, and you shouldn't get confused as often.
flat-brim white trash FTW
flat-brim white trash FTW