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Re: Good Old Days?
The difference between then and now isn't that kids start of more daring it's that back in the olden days they quickly learned that there's only so far you can go without suffering the consequences. These days they get away with far more and go on to do worse.
If a kid goes home with a marked leg after being hit by an adult the parents are more likely to sue the adult than to swipe the kid on the other leg.
Police have their hands tied.
And if I'm not careful someone will dock me karma for saying that the lack of a level of acceptable punishment such as was inflicted on Doug and his mates is why things go from bad to worse.
Whatever did you do with a stolen pig Doug?
The most daring thing we ever did was knock on somebody's door and then run. We had a variation on this theme where we tied a string to a door knocker and pulled it from a distance, or tied a string from one door to another one across the road, then knocked on one and when they opened their door it knocked the other knocker across the road. If the string didn't break and they didn't see it in the dark that could last a couple of door openings on both sides.
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