quintessential American teenager?
A vote for Freepers: How many of you would allow your kids to smoke pot so they can be called just quintessential American teenagers?
I smoked pot when I was a teenager too. However I missed out on the fun of strong arm robbery and attacking cops.
Yet this "quintessential American teenager" was engaged in the strong arm robbery of a convenience store. Somehow I and everyone I know missed out on this quintessential American coming of age ritual.
Is it now normal for teenagers to assault store clerks?
Yeah, just an average teenager. I know at least twice a week my two teenagers steal cigarillos then manhandle the clerk who tries to stop then, then proceed to walk up the middle of busy road until a cop stops, then they beat him up and break his eye socket. Yep, just normal teenagers....
“Throwing the pot at Trayvon was shameful and irrelevant to the fatal events that followed. The same is true with Brown. “
Bull crap. Totally relevant to their state of mind when BOTH of them became overly aggressive with the wrong person.
He was a gentle giant...on his way to college he was.
I have three teenagers.
None of them smoke pot.
None of them knock off convenience stores.
None of the throw up gang signs.
None of them wear their pants around their knees.
None of them have every had so much as a traffic ticket.
They have never even talked to a police officer.
They play sports and are involved in church youth activities.
What exactly is the media’s idea of a normal teenager?
Right, it’s a well-known teen rite of passage to compile a juvenile record and go on to strong-arming small men for a box of cigars.
“Brown had sleep-and-munchie-inducing pot in his system not rage-fueling PCP.”
That is still unknown. It takes weeks for a full toxicology report to come back, but a test for pot is almost instant now.
Sorry, the average teenager Doesn’t do it. Maybe many have tried, but that’s about it.
What a load of crap!
It is the old story from the left....oh he is just an average teen. WRONG WROGN WRONG. This punk had gang affiliations. He was a strong armed thug and robber. He was a bully and he broke a police officer’s eye socket and then tried to get his gun. When told to freeze he decided to bull rush the officer.
The people I know have NEVER had this type of encounter with a police officer..... even during the protests of the 60s
R.A.Heinlein had “Be wary of strong drink, it makes you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss!” (Notebooks of Lazarus Long 1973). The modern version needs to include all intoxicants, drunk or smoked. MJ devotees say it is less harmful than alcohol so it should be legal, I say if we have effectively banned tobacco, why legalize different burning leaves?
It sounds like the author finds it necessary to stereotype all young people and blacks.
Knoteye.
FWIW, I spent the late 60s in Japan, where "grass" was a one-way ticket out of the country, never touched the stuff then or since. 30yo son never did it at home, may or may not have tried it in college but certainly doesn't do it now. 18yo daughter has never done it, and she is the quintessentially high-quality American teenager.
No and we don’t allow our kids to drink underage. Any other stupid questions
I’ve heard reports it was synthetic THC or “bath salts”. If true, the reaction to that can be quite different than pot. Has anyone else seen this reported? I saw it just once and now I can’t find the reference.
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The beatification of Michael Brown from brutal doped up thug to happy-go-lucky All American Boy continues unabated and undeterred by fact.
I thought that Martin was suspended for having stolen jewelry and burglary tools. School officials downplayed this to make crime statistics look better.
-PJ