beating a kid will only make them want to push over large objects when no one is looking. i would do things with shaving cream that i am already ashamed of only a decade later, a bag of #$%* on the doorstep of someone who needed to know what it feels like to wipe the #$%* of his shoes was not beyond me... but i wouldn't vandalize something that couldnt just be hosed off and never to random strangers- except one time when a friend and i stole several baby jesi from nativity scenes across an entire county. that made the paper, but it didnt make anyone have to fix their bike. by a new baby jesus, ys. i cant tell what the difference is but there is a difference. my parents didnt beat me but they made me the kind of person that needs a damn good reason to cause another person trouble. and when my bike got pushed over a couple months ago i thought about whether i would have done that when i was younger, and i couldnt think of a scenario where i would have been able to justify that. although i have a hard time thinking of ways to justify the mass kidnapping of false idols nowadays, i still think there's a difference. and one that doesnt rely on brute force.
sorry about your bike,
-KK
