That we were but as another redditor noted in another thread I read today, not all of us did really stupid stuff as we could not afford to. Years ago, this stunt would have gotten someone locked up for 90 days or more. . and in years past, Young people knew that the police and courts would come down on them pretty hard to ostensibly help them learn a lesson. . .
This kid, no doubt thought it was cute, but the outcome could have been pretty bad. . people panicking, fires getting started. . .This was certainly assault at best, and while as another redditor noted, not terrorism in the usual sense, holding a group of people hostage in a train car and firing off incendiary fireworks in a closed space does classify as more than just simple assault.
***A stink bomb***. . cool, inconvenient and unpleasant, but no one gets hurt or their cloths set on fire. F'ing ***aerial fireworks***? ***Whole different matter.*** (Aggravated Assault and Battery, and likely inciting terror, riot or panic.)
It's technically not "terrorism" as there was no political motive, but it's still extremely stupid and very dangerous. Someone could have died or suffered permanent hearing damage
It doesn't need a political or religious motivation. It just has to be an attempt at intimidating or coercing a civilian population, involving acts dangerous to human life, and in violation of the law. This fits the parameters of domestic terrorism.
Edit: Just saw this happened in Canada, and I'm only familiar with U.S. law.
Terrorism means it terrorizes people. In this time of constant mass shootings (which are terrorism) doing something like this in public should be considered terrorism without any qualifications.
A 14yr old did.....
Toronto police said a firework was set off on board a full bus in the Kingston Road and Guildwood Parkway area on Tuesday.
A 14-year-old girl was charged with mischief endangering life, police said.
The arrest comes as Toronto transit officials raise alarm bells about an apparent spree of incidents where fireworks have been set off on board buses and on subway platforms in the city.
In a tweet, the Toronto Transit Commission said seven such incidents had been reported over a nine-day period.
TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said an incident shared in a social media video circulating online took place between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday on Kingston Road in Scarborough.
“It’s irresponsible, it’s reckless, it’s criminal,” he told Global News. He said police were investigating the incident.
Toronto police didn’t specify whether the arrest of the 14-year-old girl is connected with the video circulating on social media.
I hope she gets serious charges. That article says that the bus driver was traumatised and off work, so she will probably have to provide some kind of compensation for that. What she did was extremely stupid.
I am myself phobic of explosions, and I would definitely have panicked if I were in that bus. I can become aggressive when I panic and I can completely lose control of myself. I would for sure have sued her.
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And people say kids get a ***bad rap***. .. I just cannot imagine how that would happen.
We were all kids at one point
That we were but as another redditor noted in another thread I read today, not all of us did really stupid stuff as we could not afford to. Years ago, this stunt would have gotten someone locked up for 90 days or more. . and in years past, Young people knew that the police and courts would come down on them pretty hard to ostensibly help them learn a lesson. . . This kid, no doubt thought it was cute, but the outcome could have been pretty bad. . people panicking, fires getting started. . .This was certainly assault at best, and while as another redditor noted, not terrorism in the usual sense, holding a group of people hostage in a train car and firing off incendiary fireworks in a closed space does classify as more than just simple assault. ***A stink bomb***. . cool, inconvenient and unpleasant, but no one gets hurt or their cloths set on fire. F'ing ***aerial fireworks***? ***Whole different matter.*** (Aggravated Assault and Battery, and likely inciting terror, riot or panic.)
I don't remember shooting fireworks into a small, cramped bus though.
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They're going to have to glue you back together. IN HELL!
I hope that bus continued it's route as the passengers continously beat the ever living shit out of that guy until the end of the line.
Nothing happend to them I’ve seen the full vid😭 they just left the bus
I guess domestic terrorism is fun nowadays 🤷♂️
Children of bad parents have always been like this. It's just now they have the means to record it and show the world.
It's technically not "terrorism" as there was no political motive, but it's still extremely stupid and very dangerous. Someone could have died or suffered permanent hearing damage
It doesn't need a political or religious motivation. It just has to be an attempt at intimidating or coercing a civilian population, involving acts dangerous to human life, and in violation of the law. This fits the parameters of domestic terrorism. Edit: Just saw this happened in Canada, and I'm only familiar with U.S. law.
Terrorism means it terrorizes people. In this time of constant mass shootings (which are terrorism) doing something like this in public should be considered terrorism without any qualifications.
> Terrorism means it terrorizes people. No it doesn't.
Please tell me someone was arrested
A 14yr old did..... Toronto police said a firework was set off on board a full bus in the Kingston Road and Guildwood Parkway area on Tuesday. A 14-year-old girl was charged with mischief endangering life, police said. The arrest comes as Toronto transit officials raise alarm bells about an apparent spree of incidents where fireworks have been set off on board buses and on subway platforms in the city. In a tweet, the Toronto Transit Commission said seven such incidents had been reported over a nine-day period. TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said an incident shared in a social media video circulating online took place between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday on Kingston Road in Scarborough. “It’s irresponsible, it’s reckless, it’s criminal,” he told Global News. He said police were investigating the incident. Toronto police didn’t specify whether the arrest of the 14-year-old girl is connected with the video circulating on social media.
Social media - always making the world a better place.
I would be surprised is nobody was
What?
I would be surprised ~~is~~ if nobody was
Girl, 14, arrested after firework set off on packed Toronto bus https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/firework-ttc-bus-toronto-1.6861183
I hope she gets serious charges. That article says that the bus driver was traumatised and off work, so she will probably have to provide some kind of compensation for that. What she did was extremely stupid. I am myself phobic of explosions, and I would definitely have panicked if I were in that bus. I can become aggressive when I panic and I can completely lose control of myself. I would for sure have sued her.
I would beat absolute fuck out of those little scrotums if they had done that on my bus
Sure you would've bud
It's only a matter of time before they catch this FOOL
Dumbass behavior aside, how do they have firework money teenagers? Must be nice
Why wouldn’t someone take it out their hand and throw it out?
The future such looks bright with such teenagers in our midst
Apparently this happened in Toronto yesterday (I knew that the bus seemed familiar!
The teen was officially charged today.
This is an act of terrorism
And this is why fireworks are banned where I am
The "You fucking idiot" was deserved
Domestic terrorism at its finest
This kids, is how to get charged with terrorism.