Oh, thought you were so clever there parents, didn’t you? Yup. You sure did. You thought that you’d find a way to utilize your teens’ penchant for all their technological devices and still get them to do those mundane things like walk the dog, take out the trash, empty the dishwasher and such, eh? You fools! Teens these days have just upped the ante. They’ve decided to just out and out drug you to gain even more access to the things that matter most in their lives — using the internet. We’re doomed.
The LA Times reports that two teenage girls were arrested in Northern California this week after they laced one girl’s parents’ milkshakes with sleeping pills in order to use the Internet after a curfew set at 10 p.m.
On Dec. 28 after both parents fell asleep once consuming the milkshakes bought for them at a local fast food restaurant by the 16-year-old and 15-year old, they awoke in the middle of the night “groggy” and with “hangover” symptoms. The sleeping pills were obtained from the home of the second friend.
The couple reported the incident after they were sure something was wrong the next morning. Initially they stopped drinking the milkshakes after realizing that they were “kind of gritty” and “really funny tasting.” The two girls, we assume after watching several CBS dramas on television, decided to crush up the pills and mix them into the milkshakes. The girls were booked and placed in Juvenile Hall on suspicion of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical into food. Prosecutors will decide whether charges will be filed. It is still unclear what websites were accessed while the parents were drugged and could have been in potential danger.
Er, uh, yeah. This is the world we now live in. The Internet is king of the household for some. We’re not totally sure what to make of this. Is it a sign that these two girls are really on the verge of some sort of Sociopathic streak, or is it just the ill-conceived, hyper-selfish, teenage mind at work which could be all part of a phase? Surely, this could have ended with a much worse scenario where someone could’ve been hospitalized or worse — but just what constitutes a childhood indiscretion in this modern age? Our kids seem to be smarter, more exposed, less self-conscious, and less naïve about some things. We could possibly say much of which is actually due to the flood of information that’s readily available and easily obtained through simple online clickable access. But could someone really chalk this up to a simple childhood indiscretion, or should that be taken out of the equation and the act labeled as potential for more dastardly work forthcoming?
Regardless, one thing we can learn from this are the shocking lengths our teens are willing to go to be able to have constant, uninterrupted access to all of their technological devices. A sobering thought. It does beg the question of whether or not the parents did the right thing in turning the girls over to the police and if they should be prosecuted for their actions.
