Is it just me...

or did I miss out on the memo that said teenagers must be a bunch of hormonal crazy asses?

This question was brought on by a show my mom and I were watching called "Teens Gone Wild". Now, I thought that it would probably be about teens partying, drinking and being raunchy...ya know, the usual. But I soon found out that it was about teenagers who had been caught performing criminal acts on tape.

Admittedly, some of these teens had no idea they were being taped (i.e. surveillance cameras) as they committed crimes of petty theft and the like. But what got me were the ones who'd come prepared to record themselves.

The majority these cases were provoked by stupid drama/teenage idiocy and involved extreme violence wherein people were kidnapped/ambushed and had the living shit beat out of them. One girl was even bound and gagged and told that she was going to be buried alive. :o

In every case legal action was pursued, but not to the full extent of the law (at least not in my opinion). But what gets me is that, especially in the really violent cases, these people really thought they would get away with it. It just makes me wonder, "what could possibly be wrong with their brains that they think they would get away with something so obviously illegal?" I decided that, whatever it is, it's probably the same thing that made them think that they hadn't really done anything wrong. But it's just so much worse because they planned those situations so that they could record them and post them on the Internet. I mean, if you're going to do something illegal, not that I condone that, you should at least refrain from supplying the prosecutor (because you WILL get caught!) with all the evidence necessary to convict you. Am I wrong?