What startles me the most, is that the kid and his parents actually gave this a shot, but seeing how things are these days, I cannot quite blame them. A few months ago a friend's ex-boyfriend psyched out and gave her hell of night, which included assault and wanton destruction. (I think I wrote about it
in the Quiet Place back then but never got around to elaborate how things turned out.)
Guess what? He got away with it. Nobody pressed charges, he wasn't fined for the damaged property and even worse, while quite a few people know what happened, they act and treat him like it didn't, despite him not showing a shred of believable remorse.
So this is how society is supposed to work out? Sociopaths stepping on people, while counting on everyone else to be too apathetic to take the consequences necessary?
Jam it back in, in the dark.