Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 21:57     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:We should celebrate Darwin at work.


Sorry, but this is the correct answer.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 21:23     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.


This. Like the two boys who sneaked into a water park in winter, and died going down the frozen slides. And like many those who end up surviving their ordeals with just broken limbs or heads or necks. We usually hear of the fatalities or extreme injuries but those are the very tip of the iceberg.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 20:06     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance.


Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do.


My theory is that young children are so padded and overprotected by parents these days, desperately lacking adequate exposure to the physical world, that when they become teens and naturally separate from their parents, they’re abilities to assess risk and consequences are f*cked.


As a child psychologist, I agree with this. That and their frontal lobes are not fully developed yet so it’s a bad combination.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 20:02     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:What is this game, social media challenge type thing?


Not really. It's a real life game: you are working in teams of two (usually, some schools do individuals or larger) and have assigned "targets" (other seniors). You have to spray them with a water gun to eliminate them from the game and this must be on video or with an eyewitness. You have to keep your Snapchat location on so people know where to target you. You cannot spray someone while at school and during certain events. There are sometimes added rules like "if you wear floaties today then people can't eliminate you" but then it means wearing the floaties at the gym, mall...wherever it's fair game to target you. It goes on until everyone but the winning team is out. The game can get dangerous if people do things like the kid in this video, hurt yourself chasing someone, trespass on someone's property...


I have a question about the game. Is there an implicit or explicit understanding that you should only use water guns that look very much like toy water guns? Meaning bright colors, larger than an handgun, etc. I ask because I saw a video on Instagram from a local high school senior assassin account and a kid came up to another kid on a metro platform with a water gun that was small and black. It totally resembled a small handgun to me. I felt like such an old lady spoil sport, but all I could think was what if someone looked quickly and didn’t realize that was a water gun?!!


My son ordered a real shaped water gun in pink, but it came in black. We all took one look and said “ah, no.” He ordered another one shaped like a unicorn with sparkles. He is a huge athletic dude and seeing him carry it was sweet and hilarious.


Good parenting to help keep the game what it is supposed to be.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 19:11     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:This time playing Senior Assassin. He decided to jump on the back of a moving car and got thrown off, receiving a severe head injury. His parents are blaming the game and the other kids rather than their own son.

https://apple.news/AmC8-LZZwRX6Ga5EaUNT1Xw


That shows what lousy parents they are and not uncommon for bad parents to never accept any responsibility.

That said, allowing kids to grow up playing video games is bad parenting as well. It all tracks.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 14:17     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
You know the whole reason the birth rate is higher for boys than girls is because boys end up dying at an early age due to reckless behavior and eventually the sex ratio evens out? This has been going on since the dawn of time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/CbQ18g6MH5cts0PJvdKhGQ/why-are-more-boys-born-in-certain-years
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 14:10     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.


And yet most of them don’t kill themselves or someone else. Those ones are extra.


The girl was the one who drove the car here, killing the boy. Can’t you read?


Has he died? Also, he jumped on the moving car. Darwin Award.

No, it was parked in a driveway when he climbed on the bumper. She put then started driving.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 14:08     Subject: Re:Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The boy’s parents are upset because he hopped on the back of his target’s car while it was parked in a driveway, but the girl who was his target reversed out of the driveway and drove for 5 minutes with him clinging to the car. They said she was driving so fast, he couldn’t just jump off. When she hit a bump, he flew off. EMTs responded to the 911 call about an unconscious person. The police weren’t even aware that he’d fallen off a car until his parents contacted them. They’re investigating now. The parents feel that this wasn’t merely an accident.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/texas-teen-isaac-leal-on-life-support-after-playing-senior-assassin-just-weeks-before-graduation/


I can’t tell if she even knew he was there.

She’s just as bad of a driver if she put her car in reverse and backed out of the driveway without checking behind her vehicle and never once looked in her rear view mirror. That’s the only way she could have been unaware he was there. He was standing in the rear bumper. He wasn’t laying on top of the car.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 13:37     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
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Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad our school system has made senior assassin illegal and warned that anyone playing or caught playing cannot walk at graduation.

I saw a video last night of an upset mom who had a HS kid show up at the funeral of their family member twice trying to "kill" her kid. AT A FUNERAL!

Another good reason to get rid of this game. Jesus, just have a normal paintball tournament.


It’s just a normal game and no one is injured if they follow the rules. Paintball is way more dangerous.

Again, STOP giving whole class or whole school punishments due to a few bad actors. This is no different than forcing assigned seats at lunch because 3 kids had a food fight. I’m SO over it. As a parent of rule following kids I’m so tired of them being punished for things they have no control over.


THIS. My DC had a great time with his classmates playing this game. No one got hurt and it was a fun bonding experience.



This

Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 13:14     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
We should celebrate Darwin at work.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 13:13     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.


And yet most of them don’t kill themselves or someone else. Those ones are extra.


The girl was the one who drove the car here, killing the boy. Can’t you read?


Has he died? Also, he jumped on the moving car. Darwin Award.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 13:11     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.


And yet most of them don’t kill themselves or someone else. Those ones are extra.


The girl was the one who drove the car here, killing the boy. Can’t you read?
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 12:59     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.


And yet most of them don’t kill themselves or someone else. Those ones are extra.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 12:56     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Teenage boys tend to not be the best at accessing risk no matter what they are doing.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2025 12:26     Subject: Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad our school system has made senior assassin illegal and warned that anyone playing or caught playing cannot walk at graduation.

I saw a video last night of an upset mom who had a HS kid show up at the funeral of their family member twice trying to "kill" her kid. AT A FUNERAL!

Another good reason to get rid of this game. Jesus, just have a normal paintball tournament.


It’s just a normal game and no one is injured if they follow the rules. Paintball is way more dangerous.

Again, STOP giving whole class or whole school punishments due to a few bad actors. This is no different than forcing assigned seats at lunch because 3 kids had a food fight. I’m SO over it. As a parent of rule following kids I’m so tired of them being punished for things they have no control over.