swarming into Boston from the hinterlands to cause the trouble they can’t at home where the perceived consequences are greater. I feel like this is a very old story.
Is this another TikTok trend? How did these kids even end up together downtown? 11 and 12 year olds in a group with older teens from other towns? I know kids get obnoxious together but what makes them think this is something they would get away with?
There is a long-time UHub reader who just hates it when I point out suburban residents doing bad stuff in Boston, and yet, I keep doing it because while there are people in Boston doing bad stuff, there are people who come here from the suburbs to do bad stuff.
So, seriously, your first thought on reading a headline that starts "Suburban kids run amok ..." is to blame Boston kids? You really need to work on your assumptions if you're that completely biased against Boston kids.
I can't speak for Adam and what behaviors he may have experienced from suburbanites, but I will say that when I lived in Boston, I found it super annoying when suburbanites came to Boston and complained about things that were either imaginary (violent crime everywhere and particularly directed at THEM) or that they were a large part in creating (Red Sox fans taking up a disproportionate amount of space on the Green Line during rush hour and complaining loudly about how crowded it is). I had the experience more than once of someone who lived in the suburbs telling me how "dangerous" my own neighborhood was and how people simply could not walk the streets that I walked every day and never came to harm. Is this all suburbanites? Hell no, but the ones who are not behaving like this blend in, or at least don't stand out in annoying ways. Annoying people get noticed. I'm not sure that noticing them amounts to having a "bug up your ass".
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Neglect
Parents should be hauled in for neglect. How do 11 and 12 year olds (from Arlington no less) end up in DTX to assault bystanders?
There's only one way that happens: absent parents.
I thought the whole reason
I thought the whole reason for not expanding the Redline to Lexington was to keep this type of person out of the community?
Why call them kids and not
Why call them kids and not children? Kids are baby goats
This is the salient point to you?
Why?
They're not all exactly children
A 17-year-old is still legally a "juvenile," but I wouldn't call exactly call him a child.
They're not children
They're barbarians. They ought to be punished so severely, and publicly, that any others of their ilk will hesitate to follow their example.
What a disgrace.
"An 11-year-old from Arlington, too young to be charged, was released to a parent, police say."
Because the parent is equipped to keep this child under control and out of trouble?
Maybe not
But I can't imagine putting an 11-year-old in jail is going to be very helpful for their well-being, either.
Cambridge
Cambridge is a suburb now?
Yes
Cambridge is a suburb of Boston, just like Newton, Malden, Quincy and a bunch of other municipalities are.
population density;
therefor, boston is cambridges suburb, bitch.
Geographical rapscallions
Arlington, Framingham, Cambridge?
How did these boys (one assumes) meet up?
DYS?
DYS?
Bored boys
swarming into Boston from the hinterlands to cause the trouble they can’t at home where the perceived consequences are greater. I feel like this is a very old story.
Kids playing Kids games
I believe the name of the game is Knockout and is played on the streets and in the subway at DTC.
You believe...
...a lot of things.
What's goin down . . . .
. . . on the mean streets of Arlington?
A relative of mine was shot dead in Lexington a while back
...by some guy in a red coat.
Seriously WTF
Is this another TikTok trend? How did these kids even end up together downtown? 11 and 12 year olds in a group with older teens from other towns? I know kids get obnoxious together but what makes them think this is something they would get away with?
I hope the victims are alright. Awful.
you know everyone's first
you know everyone's first thought was these were inner-city kids.
Oh, come on
There is a long-time UHub reader who just hates it when I point out suburban residents doing bad stuff in Boston, and yet, I keep doing it because while there are people in Boston doing bad stuff, there are people who come here from the suburbs to do bad stuff.
So, seriously, your first thought on reading a headline that starts "Suburban kids run amok ..." is to blame Boston kids? You really need to work on your assumptions if you're that completely biased against Boston kids.
I'm talking about the crime
I'm talking about the crime itself, not the title of this article.
TBH I knew about the crime before I saw it here.
Hello
I don't hate it; I just like to point out the fact that you have a bug up your ass about suburbanites for some reason.
"bug up your ass"
I can't speak for Adam and what behaviors he may have experienced from suburbanites, but I will say that when I lived in Boston, I found it super annoying when suburbanites came to Boston and complained about things that were either imaginary (violent crime everywhere and particularly directed at THEM) or that they were a large part in creating (Red Sox fans taking up a disproportionate amount of space on the Green Line during rush hour and complaining loudly about how crowded it is). I had the experience more than once of someone who lived in the suburbs telling me how "dangerous" my own neighborhood was and how people simply could not walk the streets that I walked every day and never came to harm. Is this all suburbanites? Hell no, but the ones who are not behaving like this blend in, or at least don't stand out in annoying ways. Annoying people get noticed. I'm not sure that noticing them amounts to having a "bug up your ass".
Could it maybe be possible that...
just like everyone else on the T, these young individuals are pissed that the system is borked up? Like I said before, the peasants are revolting!
Against people walking down the street in DTX?
Against people walking down the street in DTX? That makes sense...