RM versus Wooton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

I was lower/middle income in HS and went to a fairly rough HS out west. I went to the mall with some kids who were more well off than I was, and they stole stuff from the store. I was shocked. They had money with them, but they stole for the thrill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

And my kids are at a high FARMS MCPS school near a Safeway. Kids steal from that Safeway ALL. THE. TIME.

It’s not just rich kids who shoplift, it’s kids from all walks of life. And they don’t get caught or get in trouble, so they continue to do it without issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Did Giant happen to use off-duty SROs for their security?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

And my kids are at a high FARMS MCPS school near a Safeway. Kids steal from that Safeway ALL. THE. TIME.

It’s not just rich kids who shoplift, it’s kids from all walks of life. And they don’t get caught or get in trouble, so they continue to do it without issue.

of course. I think the PP was just stating that W kids are not all angels and that there are issues at W schools, though some would like to believe otherwise. Kids easily fall to peer pressure, and if you hang out with kids who steal, whatever their SES, you may end up doing the same. That's why we parents tell our kids to not hang out with kids who do bad things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

What about the kids stabbing people at Whitman and Churchill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

What about the kids stabbing people at Whitman and Churchill?

oh but thoooose kids were not good kids but SN kids who are bused in from someplace else. Kids in Potomac/Bethesda would never misbehave like that. /s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

What about the kids stabbing people at Whitman and Churchill?

oh but thoooose kids were not good kids but SN kids who are bused in from someplace else. Kids in Potomac/Bethesda would never misbehave like that. /s

You are sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

I’m an RM parent. The police did not say there were not two gun related incidents. They said there was on incident in which the individual was found with a gun on them and one in which the police did not locate the gun. I was listening to the police scanners as it happened. The students saw the gun (and the principal acknowledged that the students were circulating photos of what appeared to be a gun), but the individuals ran off into the woods between the school and the apartment building. The police circled around the apartment building but did not find them, at least in the hours i was listening. It seems to me likely the kid had a gun and either tossed it in the woods or stashed it in one of the apartments. They were carefully worded comminciwtions from the school and MCPD. I don’t have any knowledge as to whether or not they were gang related. I think people made assumptions that teen boys running around with guns were likely gang affiliated but I don’t know what the correlation is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

I’m an RM parent. The police did not say there were not two gun related incidents. They said there was on incident in which the individual was found with a gun on them and one in which the police did not locate the gun. I was listening to the police scanners as it happened. The students saw the gun (and the principal acknowledged that the students were circulating photos of what appeared to be a gun), but the individuals ran off into the woods between the school and the apartment building. The police circled around the apartment building but did not find them, at least in the hours i was listening. It seems to me likely the kid had a gun and either tossed it in the woods or stashed it in one of the apartments. They were carefully worded comminciwtions from the school and MCPD. I don’t have any knowledge as to whether or not they were gang related. I think people made assumptions that teen boys running around with guns were likely gang affiliated but I don’t know what the correlation is there.

I don't really understand what difference it makes if these events were gang related or not. If your kid is shot dead, would you find comfort knowing the killer was not a gang member?? Gun doesn't care who pulls the trigger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

What about the kids stabbing people at Whitman and Churchill?

I vaguely remember a Churchill kid chasing people with a knife in the Whitman parking lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

I’m an RM parent. The police did not say there were not two gun related incidents. They said there was on incident in which the individual was found with a gun on them and one in which the police did not locate the gun. I was listening to the police scanners as it happened. The students saw the gun (and the principal acknowledged that the students were circulating photos of what appeared to be a gun), but the individuals ran off into the woods between the school and the apartment building. The police circled around the apartment building but did not find them, at least in the hours i was listening. It seems to me likely the kid had a gun and either tossed it in the woods or stashed it in one of the apartments. They were carefully worded comminciwtions from the school and MCPD. I don’t have any knowledge as to whether or not they were gang related. I think people made assumptions that teen boys running around with guns were likely gang affiliated but I don’t know what the correlation is there.

I don't really understand what difference it makes if these events were gang related or not. If your kid is shot dead, would you find comfort knowing the killer was not a gang member?? Gun doesn't care who pulls the trigger.

There have been 0 gang-related incidents at an MCPS in over a decade, but some people love to fearmonger despite the lack of any credible evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

What about the kids stabbing people at Whitman and Churchill?

oh but thoooose kids were not good kids but SN kids who are bused in from someplace else. Kids in Potomac/Bethesda would never misbehave like that. /s

You are sick.

If you read through the thread of that incident, that is exactly what W parents stated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.

Perfect hearsay.

but repeating that there were two gang related gun incidences at RM when the police said there was only one, and neither were gang related, is not hearsay?

I’m an RM parent. The police did not say there were not two gun related incidents. They said there was on incident in which the individual was found with a gun on them and one in which the police did not locate the gun. I was listening to the police scanners as it happened. The students saw the gun (and the principal acknowledged that the students were circulating photos of what appeared to be a gun), but the individuals ran off into the woods between the school and the apartment building. The police circled around the apartment building but did not find them, at least in the hours i was listening. It seems to me likely the kid had a gun and either tossed it in the woods or stashed it in one of the apartments. They were carefully worded comminciwtions from the school and MCPD. I don’t have any knowledge as to whether or not they were gang related. I think people made assumptions that teen boys running around with guns were likely gang affiliated but I don’t know what the correlation is there.

I don't really understand what difference it makes if these events were gang related or not. If your kid is shot dead, would you find comfort knowing the killer was not a gang member?? Gun doesn't care who pulls the trigger.

There have been 0 gang-related incidents at an MCPS in over a decade, but some people love to fearmonger despite the lack of any credible evidence.

You and your gang-related obsession... You completely missed the point.