[palmer]

I should add the neighborhood kid is a prankster and troublemaker but does not seem mentally ill to me. Just clever and quite destructive.

[robowombat]

This is potentially serious. He may be just bored and have a Errol Flynn type disposition especially if he has had absentee or deficient parents. Worse you may have a potential sociopath who will become more violent over time. In any case a close watch is required which can be hard to do and get you alot of grief from wives or girlfriends. Because of the ‘anything goes’ culture that the libs have created over the last 40 years it is now easy for ‘Peck's Bad Boy’ to become a candidate mass murderer.