Re: good parenting
I think listening to what the boy says shows exactly why a good part of the country is going down hill fast. His total lack of any idea of morals or consequences explains why him and his friends will probably either be dead or have been to jail before they can make it to 30.
The grandmother shows the problem with parenting these days, she knows what should be done, she should give him a beating of his life that he will remember forever, but she's afraid to because she would get in trouble for it, so instead of spending a week or two with a rear end that hurts everytime he moves, he'll probably wind up spending years in jail before long.
The cops just bring him back home as there is not much else they can do, they should have locked him up for at least a night to give him an idea of where he will be spending a lot of time in the near future.
No Father figure seems to be around anywhere.
The kid's idea of what his punishment might be is OMG, no video games for a whole weekend!
The chilling part is where the kid says he wanted to go do bad things because it was fun and then when asked if he knew he could have killed people running into cars like that, he said yes he was having fun being bad.
