Boy sticks gum on museum painting, causes damage

This is what is teacher said....

"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.



You know, the very first thing I thought when I read this piece was that 12 year old boys do stupid crap all the time without thinking, because well, 12 year old boys do not think, at least in the way humans understand it.

It was that "he's ONLY 12" that riled me....What? Because he's only 12, would he go into his friends house and stick his gum on his buddy's mom favorite art piece? Well, maybe he would, but the excuse "his ONLY 12" would not have come into play.

Reyn, interesting choice of avatar, seeing how Rowan Atkinson played Mr. Bean. In Bean's movie, he accidentally destroys "Whistler's Mother" by sneezing on it and trying to clean it with paint remover.

Chai--

Locally a 12 year old boy deliberately set a fire to inconvenience his 13 year old cousin with whom he'd been squabbling.

He's to be tried as an adult because in PA murder is not a juvenile crime. His lawyer is appealing.

Granted there is a big difference between show-off vandalism and Murder by Arson, but both kids are only twelve.

I think the school spokesperson meant that the kids was 12--not 13 or 16 or 18--"only twelve".

Yup, saw it and loved the movie.

The avatar is from "the Thin Blue Line" where RA plays a cop.

the kid's lucky he wasn't in Singapore and did that in a public place.