I hope they don’t come down too hard on the parents-they have their hands full with that kid...
Some people forget that some kids are born intelligent and precocious-the kid called the barefoot bandit comes to mind-a kid like that is going to be a real headache-an expensive one, too-if they are not given activities that challenge them mentally and physically, and are not spoiled and given their own way by parents and siblings. If they can be kept from doing dangerous and illegal things, they will probably be the next tech wizard, rocket scientist who discovers warp drive, archeologist who discovers important ruins, etc...
A friend of mine had her last of 4 kids in her late 30’s-a boy who was a like that-he also had a tested IQ well above genius level-by the time he was 8, he’d taken his dad’s truck for a drive twice and disabled a neighbor’s security cameras as well as hacking into the e-mail of the neighbor who snitched on him-is now in the astronaut program as an engineer...
“And ARE spoiled-not are not spoiled”-duh!
I agree. People around here forget that kids are creative, troublesome at times, and actually do things like this more than one would think. We now hear about it but not the background via internet.