Exuberant Youth

Guess who's running amok in Boystown?

• A mob of young offenders, some believed to be only 8-years-old, has been wreaking havoc around Boystown and Wrigleyville since Friday evening. They’ve torn up restaurants, threatened retailers, and even tried to rob a woman.
  
  Two of the punks were detained last night, but perhaps as many as six others remain at large.
  
  The boys also targeted Belmont Army at 855 West Belmont Monday. Monday night’s mayhem began around 7:30 p.m. in the 800 block of West Belmont when a group of four boys, all under 15-years-old entered two retail shops. They stole merchandise from one store and threatened the staff at the other.
  
  Forty-five minutes later, about six miscreants struck again at shops near Clark and Halsted. Then, just before 9 p.m., a string of restaurants along Clark Street called 911 to report that a pack of teens had “destroyed” their businesses by throwing tables, chairs, candles, drinks, and other materials before running away.
  
  Finally, the crew approached a woman in the 900 block of West Cornelia and tried to rob her of her phone around 9:15 p.m., police said. Six or seven boys, one as young as eight-years-old, swarmed and battered the victim near her home. They fled empty-handed, but the woman was left rattled.

Amazingly, a description was given, but this isn't the mainstream media, so it's actually accurate, You can read about it at the link up top, but we have to wonder what community (or parent) would permit their 8-year-old child to rob, beat, trash and steal at will.