Those fucking kids! *waves a pitchfork*

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

Okay, this is going to seem like a stupid rant but hear me out.

I was out walking my dog yesterday, no big deal just through the woodland and up onto the field to play some fetch. I come up the hill to where the farmer has stacked his haybales, when suddenly i see smoke billowing up from the ground. All 5 stacks of hay had been set alight, subsequently setting alight to a lot of the flammable dead fern plants (bracken) nearby. I look up into the field and see 4-5 teenagers wandering up to the nearby council estate as if nothing has happened.

What has gotten into kids these days? Since I've lived here when i was about 10, I've witnessed this shit happen more than 5 times in about 4 years. You might wonder why I'm surprised by this, seeing as it's happened before, and I'll tell you. The previous occasions, the dead bracken was set alight which is considerably less dangerous as long as it's not too much (last year it nearly set fire to the whole damn forest). The hay bales are not so much a target, it's food and shelter for livestock, whereas the bracken is just rotting down to become nutrients for the summer plants.
Now i saw these bales and i thought "That farmer either has some serious confidence in those kids in the council estate, or he's pretty damn stupid." But, I decided to follow in the farmer's confidence and thought "kids aren't that dumb, they're not gonna set fire to hay bales surely"

Alas! it seems that kids nowadays have nothing better to occupy their time with other then going "Durrp, hey theres a hay bale hurr! I'm gonna set it on fire guhys! hurr hurr!"
I was pissed, i wanted to grab a stick and bash the flames out myself, but I reminded myself that if i was caught anywhere near the scene of the crime, i would ironically be blamed simply because i was there. I actually saw a fire engine arriving as i began to leave for home (I left the house 20 minutes previous and the teenagers had already scorched a great deal of the area before i was even there), so i decided it was best i left them to it.

So, i called my dog away and we went home, him coughing from the smokescreen that he so merrily pranced through and me with black thunder raging in my tongue.

Those fucking kids.

[Bee]

This is why I have zero faith in humanity. Common Sense is so rare it's a super power. Now, I will admit I burn things on a regular basis, but that's due to the fact I'm now so far out in Buttfuck Nowhere that we don't even have trash services. But even I know how to be sensible about it. Trash gets burned in a three-foot deep, 10 by 20 pit, and only on days when the wind is non-existant so we don't accidentally start a fire somewhere else.

This is also why I don't like a lot of people. Some are only still alive because it's illegal to kill them.

[Frisk E. Coyote]

Yeah. Rotten kids! The only thing they're good for nowadays is getting molested!

Joking aside, my school is full of little psychos, and that's something coming from me! I go to art and woodwork class, and people always, ALWAYS throw things when no one's supervising. Its the same for any class, but especially art class and woodworking class. They usually throw bits of paper, sawed bits of wood, sawdust, paintbrushes- but sometimes, these people show no hesitation in throwing a HANDSAW, a JAR OF WATER, CHISELS, a large paintbrush coated in VARNISH, paints, etc, etc... What's up with kids these days? I was never this rowdy!

[Bee]

I think it's because we were pretty much the last generation to get the snot beaten out of us if we ever acted like a bunch of idiots.

[Ryan]

Sorry. I is a pyro so I would run up to it and help cause more fire. But in a since kids care less day by day. Thats about it,

[AetherRose]

I doubt you really want a psychological analysis...so the most I can offer is, you could always give an anonymous tip.
Revenge through the moronic enforcement officials is the best kind of the revenge.

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

I doubt you really want a psychological analysis...so the most I can offer is, you could always give an anonymous tip.
Revenge through the moronic enforcement officials is the best kind of the revenge.

Sadly all i have as a description is a group of young teenagers, it was too dark to spot any recognizable features.

It's not the fact that they committed arson that pissed me off, its the sheer lack of respect they had for the work that the guy put into making those bales, as well as the lack of respect or consideration for local wildlife.

[AetherRose]

Do you think mere children understand that?

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

Do you think mere children understand that?

They're teenagers, not children. I should think they would know a lot about personal property, especially as they seem to want more of it during that particular decade of their life.

[AetherRose]

I know you said teenagers.
I restate my question, "you think mere children would understand that?"