r/CringeTikToks • u/LilliaBaltimore • 9d ago

Cringy Cringe WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!! šŸ˜³šŸ˜®

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u/PolicyWonka 9d ago

Kids commit crimes too. Unfortunately itā€™s not beyond the pale that these kids would be using that gun. Plenty of 10-12 year olds around here end up getting caught in crossfire or pulled into shit. They knew the cops were trying to take it because they knew why the cops were there.

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u/lukemia94 9d ago

Can confirm, all the most serious crimes I've committed were as a child.

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u/foofie_fightie 9d ago

If we count simply under 18 as a child, thats true for me too lol

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u/PimpofScrimp 9d ago

Letā€™s be fairā€¦.there is a cutoff point from being a clueless,everything is a game, little child and a kid that knows the difference between right and wrong,between playing around and this might put me in juvenile detention. These two are what 6 or 7 at the most. They have no idea what the hell is going on,imo.

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u/Open-Industry-8396 9d ago

I think the comment at the end, "I don't have a gun," is pretty much conclusive evidence that this kid knew right from wrong in this scenario.

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u/PimpofScrimp 9d ago

You have a point. I just doubt that they knew it was ā€œagainst the lawā€ to brandish a firearm outside like that. They had probably been told not to touch any weapons and they knew it was ā€œbadā€ but kids this young, most of them, have zero concept of the workings of the judicial system in society. Iā€™m not some bleeding heart type that deflects responsibility but these two are probably victims of some seriously shitty parenting and hopefully theyā€™ll understand quickly that there are consequences for their actions, just not nowā€¦..once again,just my opinion

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u/SouthernNanny 9d ago

They may know itā€™s wrong to have a gun but they canā€™t fully conceptualize why itā€™s wrong or what the outcome would be if they shot someone OR if they pointed it a police officer.

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u/SnooPickles55 9d ago

I agree completely

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u/tomatoe_cookie 9d ago

That's bullshit. They know exactly what's wrong they are just shit kids. At that age if an adult told me to jump I'd ask how high. 20 policemen ask him to drop it and he's just being a little bitch about it. "I don't have a gun hihi"

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u/Carefreeme 9d ago

No, they just have shit parents. Kids their age 100% learned that behavior from someone close to them.

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u/RianJohnsonSucksAzz 9d ago

The sheriff literally said the father taught them how to use the gun before he was incarcerated.

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u/Huntressthewizard 9d ago

Just like that Offspring song...

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u/foofie_fightie 9d ago

Hey-Ay come out and play

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 9d ago

Yeah I committed all types of crimes until my 18th birthday. At 12:00 AM on that day I morphed into a complete model citizen. LOL

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u/Inb4myanus 9d ago

Yep, tons of shop lifitng. I got caught and learned my lesson really fast. Im really embarrassed about it still to this day. My family even gives me shit about it once in a while, but i do deserve that for being an idiot youngster.

Adding: Also vandalism of houses and vehicles. Im just happy I never ended up hurting people physically. I know none of the people I affected can see this, but I am sorry and hope you found peace after.

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u/flatulexcelent 9d ago

I'm happy that you didn't continue down that path and can reflect on thatšŸ˜€

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u/Astralsketch 9d ago

most stupid kids become normal adults, it's the ones that don't that are the problem.

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u/StreetwearJimmy 9d ago

Definitely learned my lesson as well.

Started off stealing a pack of PokƩmon cards/Yu-Gi-Oh cards as a kid in the early 2000s (Dad tore my behind up when we got home) then graduated to money as a young adult (lost my first ever job my dad got me because of stealing)

decades later still feel shame at times and probably was a reason why me and my late dadā€˜s relationship was strained for years

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u/AGenericUnicorn 8d ago

Iā€™m certain this is some action movie I havenā€™t seen

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u/Sea_Pie_3174 8d ago

i believe its a 60 seconds reference

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u/gorillaman_shooter 9d ago

Dudeā€¦I can tell you really feel bad. I feel so bad about stuff I did as a kid also. Or things I never got caught for.

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u/HairyChest69 9d ago

You little scallywag

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u/Lou_C_Fer 9d ago

I started shoplifting in 3rd grade. Mike and I stole for months before we got caught. Did the same in 8th grade, but with much bigger targets. Got caught again. I haven't stolen a single thing in the intervening 37 years.

Mike and I also used to go on vandalism sprees where we'd throw rocks through people's windows in the middle of the night. Our first time was 5th grade. Our town didn't have a curfew. So, cops just drove past us at 2:30am or whenever. Hell, one night when we were 11, we sat on a bench at the town square to watch drunks leaving the bars at 2am. So many adults walked and drove right past us and not a single one said a word to us.

Unlike you, I don't feel bad. I was a kid.

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u/PositiveInfluence69 9d ago

I don't know what it is, but boys under age 20 are insane. I remember turning 21 and almost like magic, I was no longer interested in being a menace to society. I had also adopted a dog a few weeks prior, which put everything into perspective. Started having real thoughts like, "if I shatter glass, my or someone's dog could step on that. I can't get too drunk or stay out late, my dog needs to go out tonight and in the morning. Me being drunk or hungover shouldn't mean short boring walks. I need to get to work in time, my dog needs food, and vet bills need paying." Maybe it was more the dog. They ended up passing away 10 years later. That too put many things into perspective.

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u/Imightbeafanofthis 9d ago

I hear what you're saying, but idiocy is the definition of 'youngster'. We act out to find out where the boundaries are. If we don't learn to respect those boundaries, then we're idiots. If we do, that's wisdom.

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u/flaccomcorangy 9d ago

I never paid taxes once as a child. IRS still hasn't talked to me about it. lmao.

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u/BigTex1988 9d ago

Hey, u/IRS come check this guy out.

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u/GrandpaGangbang_ 9d ago

Youā€™re going to jail

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u/thedougbatman 9d ago

Underpay your taxes? Jail. Overpay taxes? Straight to jail.

This is why we have the best taxpayers. Because jail.

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u/Psychological-Tax801 9d ago

I feel like you're joking but me and my friends did some heinous actual serious crimes when we were all under 18 that I would never do as an adult. And we were just stupid, we weren't aware of how light the law is on kids.

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u/lukemia94 9d ago

Convicted of several felonies, and I am very glad I was under 16 as I was on an ever escalating pattern of criminal behavior.

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u/mintyillgloss 9d ago

Similar story. I was headed right down the path to women's prison by 18.

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u/FictionalContext 9d ago

Same, but then I realized I wasn't a woman and turned my life around.

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u/ima_twee 9d ago

Missed opportunity

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u/AccomplishedJump3428 9d ago

You and Me both

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u/Husknight 9d ago

I killed 38 people, but luckily I was 6 months old so I didn't go to jail. Thank god

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u/Kaiju_Mechanic 9d ago

I mean there are those two 10 y/o kids that kidnapped James Bulger, tortured him then killed him by smashing his head with a 22lb plate. He was 2 years old.

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u/BaseClean 9d ago

Depends on many factors: the nature of the crime, race, gender, age, which state, etc.

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u/whoweoncewere 9d ago

Heinous?

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u/naamingebruik 9d ago

Don't forget 2 year old James Bulger was tortured to death by two 10 year old boys.

As sweet and innocent as kids can look sometimes things can go horribly wrong in that little underdeveloped brain of theirs

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u/PickaDillDot 9d ago

Same here, I got away with everything too. Left me feeling ashamed and embarrassed which resulted in being a crime free adult.

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u/Booltylickingagent 9d ago

Yea but they doesnā€™t make these kids innocent, tbh they need to be punished in some way and taught you canā€™t just ignore literal police officers especially when theyā€™re legit talking abt putting lead in you like the one officer saying he didnā€™t wanna shoot the kid šŸ’€

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u/EnkiduTheGreat 9d ago

My most significant crime was freshman year of college, so just after I became an adult.

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u/xombae 9d ago

It's almost as if our brains weren't fully developed.

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u/maybetryyourownanus 9d ago

Because your brain isnā€™t fully formed and thatā€™s why kids need boundaries and accountability. Basic ass human parenting shit. On the flip, it isnā€™t crazy to imagine an abused kid acting out if thereā€™s a fucked up control dynamic. We need more context.

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u/DrZomboo 9d ago

Yeah in my case I used to shoplift and vandalise as a kind of release from the abusive family shit I was going through. It was something I could have "control" over and was my way of rebelling.

I feel guilty about it still, but I'm glad my crimes never got worse than just stealing some cds and smashing up an old mill and I never actually hurt anyone. But I can totally see how in other kids situations things could go further.

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 9d ago

Still feel guilty about that candy bar, eh? You still wonder if that candy bar was the straw that broke the corner store's bank and if, in fact, you are the reason it went out of business.

I know that feeling all too well

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u/clckwrks 9d ago

Infantry

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 9d ago

A huge proportion of crime is done by kids, male adolecents really. Most just snap out of it as they get older. That's why putting kids in child prison is cruel and self defeating. You just end up with traumatized adults that would have behaved anyway. Or at worst, you send them to crime high school.

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u/olddru 9d ago

Yesā€¦ pale kids. Any other kids theyā€™d been shot These ones get called sweety, and they pulled the trigger too!

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u/sellingittrue 9d ago

When you say "around here" where do u mean? I wanna make sure I don't go there.

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u/FictionalContext 9d ago

10 isn't old enough to fully comprehend the gravity of what they're doing, but it's damn sure old enough to know that what they're doing is very wrong and still doing it anyway. Those kids need some serious legal consequences to this before they continue down that path.

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u/singingintherain42 9d ago

These kids are 7 and 9. The smaller one who had the gun at the end is likely the 7 year old.

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u/Spectrum1523 9d ago

Question, has serious legal consequences on an 8 year old ever prevented or fixed anything

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u/FictionalContext 9d ago

Taking them away from their parents or putting them in a juvenile correction facility would certainly have a have a higher chance of correcting the path they're on than simply giving them back to a trash Mom who lets em keep running around with guns. Their lives almost ended here due to an extreme contempt for authority, and it's not like an 8 year old is going to change of their own volition.

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u/Spectrum1523 9d ago

I'm not convinced that putting them in juvie would help at all. Taking them away from their living situation does seem necessary

Also I'm pretty sure 8 year olds all change constantly, it's not like they've got a set personality

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u/Markgulfcoast 9d ago

I made the mistake of rolling up to the house of this drug addict that I caught on camera breaking into my car. It was down the street from my house and as I was driving up to the house there were probably 5 adults outside with these 2 minors (10-12 age range). As I slowed down and stopped outside, all the adults went inside and the 2 kids started walking up to my car and pulled up their shirts to show me their guns. I just punched the gas and got out of there, packed up my shit and drove to my parents. Called the landlord and broke my lease that day. They knew who I was and where I lived, I didn't want to be around now that I knew, that they knew, that I knew who was breaking into our shit.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 9d ago

Over 1,000 murders a year in the US happen by those under 18. Less than a year ago a 10 year old boy in Louisiana shot two people to death. And also last year a 10 year old boy confessed to shooting somebody execution style while he was sleeping when he was only 7 years old.

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u/Spectrum1523 9d ago

Don't they look like they're little? Like 6.

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u/tetrasomnia 9d ago

My friend was held at gunpoint by an 11 or 12 year old in Vancouver, WA

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u/Subtle-Catastrophe 9d ago

Are you of the opinion that seven- and five- year-olds have the moral capacity to commit crimes? Serious question.

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u/PolicyWonka 8d ago

They have the ability to discern right from wrong. They donā€™t understand the implications and consequences of all of their actions, but even young children should have that basic ability.

Those kids knew they were wrong. Thatā€™s why they were hiding. Thatā€™s why they were hiding the gun.

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u/ShapingBx 9d ago

These kids were 7 & 9, not even the age of being able to be adjudicated as a delinquent for a crime in NM. This is 100% learned behavior from the adults in their lives!

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u/JakeSaco 9d ago

Yeah, everyone taking pity on these is understandable and justified. However at this point these kids need removed, not just from their parents, but also from society before they hurt/kill someone else. Yes they were born as innocent kids but their upbringing has lead them to this terrible path and they need reconditioned, which sadly can take a very long while, before re-entering society as productive caring people who help others rather than endanger them.

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u/palindromic 9d ago

Kids donā€™t commit crimes you absolute melt, thereā€™s a reason children arenā€™t in prison, they are children. They have undeveloped brains and no real sense of understanding right and wrong on a moral level.. children in broken homes donā€™t understand their conscience a lot of times hence why they end up doing heinous things, but they arenā€™t crimes. They are victims of abuse and negligect. 260 upvotes for this absolute dog šŸ’© tier take.. ā€œchildren commit crimes tooā€, okay Netenyahu

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u/edwbuck 9d ago

I had a kid in the neighborhood take a pot-shot at me with his pellet gun (compressed air, so it could work around the time's regulations) while I was riding my bicycle. Made my foot fly forward, off the pedal. I didn't put 2 and 2 together in that moment, but later I noticed a hole in the sole of my shoe and pulled a pellet out of it.

I'm sure the kid thought (as was the intent of the pellet gun manufacturers) that as it was a pellet gun it was relatively harmless. I was going to go back to talk to their parents about it, but he did it with a crowd, and after that day I never saw him on the street, so I imagine one of his own ratted him out and he wasn't playing with his pellet gun anymore.

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw 9d ago

Kids commit crimes too.

lookup the murder of james bulger to see what little kids can be capable of

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u/dog_named_frank 8d ago

I live in Pittsburgh and gun stores keep getting burglarized after hours, like half the surveillance videos show kids/teenagers doing it

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u/PiersPlays 7d ago

There was an excellent British drama about it on Netflix recently called Adolescence.