February 24th, 2010
Being the eldest child, I had to watch my younger brother a lot. At times he would terrorize the neighborhood with his pranks. I had to stay one step ahead of him, but that wasn’t easy to do. One day he decided that the neighbor’s pool needed drained so my brother and his friend took a steak knife out of the kitchen drawer and stabbed 97 holes in the pool. You heard right, a couple of 5 year olds stabbed 97 holes in a pool. That evening, the police showed up at our door because someone saw the boys leaving the scene of the crime. The neighbor filled charges against both boys for the damage. After the police filed the charges the boys were released to their parents. The neighbor sued my mother and the other boy’s mother for the cost of repairing the pool. Then a couple of days later, I found the steak knife stabbed in the ground along the fence line. If we lived in Los Angeles my mom would need to hire Los Angeles Juvenile Crime Defense Lawyers . The neighbor dropped the charges against the boys because of their age. The parents had to sign an agreement to pay for the pool repairs. The neighbor did not want the boys to start life with a criminal record. The boys swam in the same pool the following summer after the neighbor talked to them about destroying property It all worked out good in the end, but I wonder sometimes if my brother would have learned a better lesson if they had to work to pay off the debt.
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Well, we really have to watch our kids. Some people can really take advantage.
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