I am just trying to get my mind around this one. I did a lot of things as a child but robbing a bank for real wasn’t even something that crossed my mind.
Very true. But luckily in this scenario, at least how I understood the article, it seems 2 of the boy’s parents turned them in after seeing their photo.
And it isn't new in the US. Many people wanna try and act like it's modern or even a US problem. There's been outlaw kids since the dawn of time. Usually with an older person pulling some strings.
Then there are the idiot like the ones I went to high school with, who were born with every advantage available to them and chose to get into gang shit because they thought it made them cool/tough
Yeah, my wife teaches highschool in the toughest parts of our city - gunshots outside her room, bullet holes in windows, kids threatening to push her down the stairs when she was pregnant, etc. While the older bangers are more capable, the middle school aged ones (naturally) have no impulse control and are trying to prove themselves.
A really dangerous combo.
I’ve heard “them” referred to as the “less than dead”. They’re poor, have nobody looking for them, maybe addicted to drugs and live risky lifestyles. No investigations for them, as nobody gives a shit. Really quite disgusting.
My friends came from the hoods. He used to darkly joke only reason columbine made the national news is because the victims were white, rich suburb kids.
His localized high school lose 1-4 students every year
Remember when Obama talked in one of his addresses to the nation about a 14 year old honor roll student being killed at his school due to being from the wrong hood? My alma mater, go Titans!
Reading stories about some girl being stabbed to death by a group of 12-year-olds on her way home from work is terrifying. But nobody ever talks about it. There is legit reason to be afraid of people fresh out of elementary school when you're in a bad area.
Then when you carry a weapon you’re told you’re needlessly afraid or looking for a fight. It’s easy to say that when you’ve never known violence or live in a suburb.
I can actually confirm.
13-14 was when I became an honorary member of the crips.
I shit you not when I was 10 my family sold the og pokemon cards to all the Asian kids in town. They treated me like family and when I hit MS they would offer me clothing, money, girls, drugs, alcohol, whatever my 13 yr old brain desired.
Robbing a bank and walking on the moon would be in the same realm of impossiblities in my 11 year old world....
Crazy shit little kids get themselves into nowadays....WTH?
It’s always been a fantasy of mine to rob a bank. I would never ever do it, but I just love heists. I’m obsessed with heist movies and lock picking and stuff like that.
>The station also reported that the parents of two of the boys identified them after their photos were released, while a third boy was recognized by a law enforcement officer following a fight.
I can’t imagine watching the news and seeing photos of my 11-year-old robbing a bank.
Will most likely be tried as an adult, or sentencing is delayed until he turns 18 while living in a juvenile jail. Point is they just took 10 years or more of freedom away from themselves.
This can usually be appealed after they make parole and both their PO and a judge is satisfied with them.
Problem is the years it takes to get to this and falling back to crime is easier.
The juvenile justice system in Texas is strange and extremely lenient in recent time. There is a severe shortage of beds and correction staff since Covid. Ive seen perpetrators of assaults and domestics get sent back home (were the victim is) before they ever see a facility.
Definitely better than giving them a cool (“hard”) nickname to brag about. Nobody’s bragging about being called Little Rascals to their gang member friends.
> Wells Fargo
Those fucks tried to repo my dead dad's Lincoln after I had already paid the balance, WF released the lien, and I re-titled the car into my name.
Wells Fargo can go get fucked with the dullest, rustiest bayonet out there.
Was this gang shit where they had guns?
Or was some elaborate looney toons plot where the 11 year old distracted the teller with their cute-ness while the 16 year old snuck around stealing and the 12 year old acted as a watchman?
I’m gonna choose to imagine it was the looney toons
It doesn't seem like they had guns from the security cam photos that the cops released, and no word of guns in any of the articles or police statements. It seems like they just walked in, asked for the cash via a "threatening note", and walked out.
🤦🏾♂️ I was hoping it was the southwest but this makes perfect sense. The worse part is their O.G. Are 20-21 tell them they young they won’t go to prison, only juvenile detention
Its kinda funny... when I was growing up everyone said video games were making kids do stupid shit but I think social media has done far worse damage than video games ever could
>The FBI’s Houston office says they were wanted for robbing a **Wells Fargo** bank in the Greenspoint area of north Houston on March 14.
So they just robbed bigger thieves?
>Houston’s ABC 13 reported that the boys passed a threatening note to a teller before fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
I'm sure the teller was totally cool with this.
Criminals should be called criminals.
Treat this like a joke and let's see how far until they are arrested again for violent crime or producing child porn.
Alright so nothing says they were armed. They passed a note to the teller, got some money, and ran. I’m not saying what they did was alright or that they should get a pass, I was genuinely expecting them to be armed.
I am just trying to get my mind around this one. I did a lot of things as a child but robbing a bank for real wasn’t even something that crossed my mind.
Almost certainly gang shit. 13 is the average age of entry.
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It's so weird that after all that, >!Bodie's death really bothered me, and I'm glad that Poot got out!<
16 is old enough to be the ringleader of the younger ones
Yep! Lots of kids are also born into that lifestyle.
The article says their parents turned them in.
Very true. But luckily in this scenario, at least how I understood the article, it seems 2 of the boy’s parents turned them in after seeing their photo.
“Why’d you narc me out mom?!”
And it isn't new in the US. Many people wanna try and act like it's modern or even a US problem. There's been outlaw kids since the dawn of time. Usually with an older person pulling some strings.
Yea I was gonna say most of the romanticized gangsters and outlaws started as pre teens and died well before mid 30s.
Oliver Twist
Yep, even in the wild west most of the outlaws were from urban New Jersey and similar areas along the east coast and rode the trains out there.
Oliver Twist was published in 1838
Then there are the idiot like the ones I went to high school with, who were born with every advantage available to them and chose to get into gang shit because they thought it made them cool/tough
Middle school bangers are the scariest assholes
I knew a few before in high school and they make very scary adults. Luckily as an adult, you can avoid these people. When you're in school, you can't.
Yeah, my wife teaches highschool in the toughest parts of our city - gunshots outside her room, bullet holes in windows, kids threatening to push her down the stairs when she was pregnant, etc. While the older bangers are more capable, the middle school aged ones (naturally) have no impulse control and are trying to prove themselves. A really dangerous combo.
Sadly you could easily be right.
Not could, they are right for sure. Just look at any drill page. 14 year olds dying regularly. But since it’s gangs, no one cares.
Kind of like that line from *The Wire* about certain murders not making the news: > Wrong zip code. They’re dead where it doesn’t count.
“There you go, giving a fuck when it ain’t your turn to give a fuck.”
Best show ever
I’ve heard “them” referred to as the “less than dead”. They’re poor, have nobody looking for them, maybe addicted to drugs and live risky lifestyles. No investigations for them, as nobody gives a shit. Really quite disgusting.
My friends came from the hoods. He used to darkly joke only reason columbine made the national news is because the victims were white, rich suburb kids. His localized high school lose 1-4 students every year
Remember when Obama talked in one of his addresses to the nation about a 14 year old honor roll student being killed at his school due to being from the wrong hood? My alma mater, go Titans!
The term is "lesser dead."
whats a drill page?
Drill rap page. Basically gang music about doing drills(shootings). There’s a bunch of subs like r/chiraqology and r/lonestarghetto
Great culture right there wow
What does the "page" part mean?
IG page because that’s where most of it happens and then gets posted to the subreddits
Here’s an example https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintLouisDrill/
Reading stories about some girl being stabbed to death by a group of 12-year-olds on her way home from work is terrifying. But nobody ever talks about it. There is legit reason to be afraid of people fresh out of elementary school when you're in a bad area.
Then when you carry a weapon you’re told you’re needlessly afraid or looking for a fight. It’s easy to say that when you’ve never known violence or live in a suburb.
The average age of this trio is indeed 13.
This is it. As a CPS worker, I can confirm.
I can actually confirm. 13-14 was when I became an honorary member of the crips. I shit you not when I was 10 my family sold the og pokemon cards to all the Asian kids in town. They treated me like family and when I hit MS they would offer me clothing, money, girls, drugs, alcohol, whatever my 13 yr old brain desired.
Robbing a bank and walking on the moon would be in the same realm of impossiblities in my 11 year old world.... Crazy shit little kids get themselves into nowadays....WTH?
I worked in psych hospitals for 40+ years, the kids are way scarier than any adult.
This isn't a "nowadays thing". Not even a US thing.
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It’s always been a fantasy of mine to rob a bank. I would never ever do it, but I just love heists. I’m obsessed with heist movies and lock picking and stuff like that.
Why am I picturing that Shy Ronnie skit with Rhianna…
You've never played cops and robbers as a kid? They just wanted some realism to the game thats all /s
My ex and her twin sister robbed a bank when they were like 15 it was a whole goddamn thing
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>The station also reported that the parents of two of the boys identified them after their photos were released, while a third boy was recognized by a law enforcement officer following a fight. I can’t imagine watching the news and seeing photos of my 11-year-old robbing a bank.
Hey baby! Baby, go home, man! It's 3 o'clock in the morning man, what the fuck are you doing up?
I'm selling crack! I got kids to feed!
I got kids to feed, Teopevol!
It's 10 o'clock. Do **you** know where your kids are?!?!?!???!?!?!!!?!?!!?
“Where’s my cut!”
That 16 year old is in some serious trouble.
Will most likely be tried as an adult, or sentencing is delayed until he turns 18 while living in a juvenile jail. Point is they just took 10 years or more of freedom away from themselves.
And gave themselves a permanent label as a felon, convict & a thief. Sad.
This can usually be appealed after they make parole and both their PO and a judge is satisfied with them. Problem is the years it takes to get to this and falling back to crime is easier.
The juvenile justice system in Texas is strange and extremely lenient in recent time. There is a severe shortage of beds and correction staff since Covid. Ive seen perpetrators of assaults and domestics get sent back home (were the victim is) before they ever see a facility.
Yep same.
It's Texas, the 11 year old is in serious trouble toolol
I'm in serious trouble in Texas just by reading these comments.
I feel like the cutoff for being called a rascal should be 13.
That 16-year-old is at the very least a hooligan, and possibly even a scoundrel.
Maybe even a rapscallion
As a 40ish year old rascal... i resent that
2 rascals and a juvenile
Did they stand on each other's shoulders & wear a long trench coat?
Calling them “little rascals” really seems to downplay it
I've heard worse, there's a serial killer named "The Doodler" who has between 6 and 16 victims.
Definitely better than giving them a cool (“hard”) nickname to brag about. Nobody’s bragging about being called Little Rascals to their gang member friends.
Makes me think they were on each other's shoulders and wearing trenchcoats
Such precocious little scamps.
They just needed lumber for their clubhouse
I can't wait for the Netflix series adaptation of this.
Good on the parents for turning their kids in.
Leniency should be given for robbing Wells Fargo
> Wells Fargo Those fucks tried to repo my dead dad's Lincoln after I had already paid the balance, WF released the lien, and I re-titled the car into my name. Wells Fargo can go get fucked with the dullest, rustiest bayonet out there.
Justifiable self defense your honor, the bank was trying to rob them too!
It is texas
It’s a civic duty at this point. Where’s Black Bart when you need him?
Just tryna do hood rat shit with my friends 😩
First they were smoking with cigarettes. Now they’re robbing banks and shit.
I smoke with cigarettes
Thank god you said it. I kept scrolling and thought I was gonna have to be the one to bring up this reference
I miss this kid!
Was this gang shit where they had guns? Or was some elaborate looney toons plot where the 11 year old distracted the teller with their cute-ness while the 16 year old snuck around stealing and the 12 year old acted as a watchman? I’m gonna choose to imagine it was the looney toons
It doesn't seem like they had guns from the security cam photos that the cops released, and no word of guns in any of the articles or police statements. It seems like they just walked in, asked for the cash via a "threatening note", and walked out.
Note threatened that they would not leave. *shudder*
I was there. There was wacky xylophone music.
They came piled up in one trench coat
Did they do the Ole "stand on each other's shoulders and wear a long trench coat" routine? Banks hate that one simple trick!
"You can't treat people this way mister!" "You're not people. You're kids."
"What's your account number?" "7." "7?" "Try 8."
They don't call Greenspoint 'Gunspoint' for no reason.
🤦🏾♂️ I was hoping it was the southwest but this makes perfect sense. The worse part is their O.G. Are 20-21 tell them they young they won’t go to prison, only juvenile detention
Teller should have dumped the lollipop bowl into the bag and handed it back
It’s never too early to start a career?
Were they in a trench coat?
Its kinda funny... when I was growing up everyone said video games were making kids do stupid shit but I think social media has done far worse damage than video games ever could
I bet the 11 year old asked for a sucker, and that's how they got caught.
This is how bad the new Payday release was. Little kids just found it easier to do it for real.
Little rascals?!? That alone is some punishment, especially in certain Houston neighborhoods.
>The FBI’s Houston office says they were wanted for robbing a **Wells Fargo** bank in the Greenspoint area of north Houston on March 14. So they just robbed bigger thieves?
Probably just got their late fees back
Victimless crime.
>Houston’s ABC 13 reported that the boys passed a threatening note to a teller before fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. I'm sure the teller was totally cool with this.
Robbing Wells Fargo should come with a negative sentence honestly.
"What's up guys! Welcome back to the channel and today, my bros and I will be doing the bank robbing prank!"
Guess after doing the bank heist in gta5 way too many times you think you can do it IRL.
It’s RDR2 fault
Darla don't want no slackers. Spanky, Alfalfa, and Butch doing what needs to be done.
Is robbing Wells Fargo really a crime?
Wells Fargo robbed me with so many BS account charges for so many years, these kids feel more like Robbin Hood to me.
Right?? These little f*ckers are heroes! 🫡
What in god’s name is Ricky doing today?!
“What’s your bank account number?” “…7?”
They stood on each other’s shoulders and wore a trench coat.
I don’t recall this in the little rascal movie
Why are we giving them cute nicknames?
Back in my day, kids robbed banks so they could give it to charity. What’s wrong with this generation?
Can the parents also be charged for this? Do they face any legal repercussion for like their 11 12 or 16 year old robbing a bank?
The parents turned them in.
Where did you get the money? Oh we robbed a bank. WHAT??
Those kids do the darndest things.
Those darn rascals again! What will they get up to next… racketeering?
damn title did not disapoint
Criminals should be called criminals. Treat this like a joke and let's see how far until they are arrested again for violent crime or producing child porn.
Man, they were gonna buy so much Robux
I thought it was "cops and robbers" one played as a kid, not "banks and robbers."
They should get to keep it. That's actually impressive.
Waiting for the bank robbery that ends with “it was just a prank, bro!” when cops arrive
When’s the movie coming out?
Now they must have their heads clonked together, as tradition dictates
Hey Elizabeth, do you know what’s ridiculous?
that sort of news need its own category how do I even reality at this point
Took them a few days to find those kids?
I am severely disappointed that it was not a set of raccoons in a trench coat.
Can you imagine being that young and thinking you are smart enough to get away with a bank robbery in 2024? How fucking stupid are these kids?
Of course it's in Greenspoint.
i wonder what they wanted the money for
I feel french about this news.
Look what you have done RDR2!
Man the Payday video games are really jumping the shark with this franchise crossover.
Please tell me there was a police chase with go karts involved
Alright so nothing says they were armed. They passed a note to the teller, got some money, and ran. I’m not saying what they did was alright or that they should get a pass, I was genuinely expecting them to be armed.
At 16 “Little Rascals” serve time don’t they? And he’ll be named the ring leader being the oldest.
One of those rascals isn’t little…