Let these brats go meet some people who suffer from actual hunger.

They should be severly punished to cure their behavior. Allowing this behavior is a big reason why we are having so many nuts getting PTSD and commiting suicide. I blame this behavior on so-called expert psychologists that lead parents wrongly.

Katzentante
Their parents should have raised them properly, they have too much time on their hands, put them to work to feed the hungry, sweep the streets, pick up garbage etc.
Or better still: Take away their smart phones.

See above, ditto

OK, there's stupid and then there's REALLY stupid and this "prank" definitely falls in the latter category. Look, I enjoy off-the-wall humor as much as anyone, but this is ridiculous.

Not to sound like a "get off my lawn" old fart, but this is what happens when kids are raised by helicopter parents who constantly reinforce the misguided notion that little Justin or Olivia are "special." Add to that a bunch of kids raised on such inane social media outlet as Twitter ("Goin' drinkin' tonite -- woo-hoo!!") and Facebook, where they feel a pathetic and pathological need to tell the world what they are doing at all times, and this is the result. Example: "Dude, didya see my video on YouTube?"

I hope that the next time one of these jamokes does this stunt they pop a hamstring or pull a groin muscle while pretending to slide through whatever liquid was in the gallon they needlessly smashed. Laugh that off, jackasses.

This kind of behavior is why we have video cameras watching our every move. I can see one of these geniuses trying to file a law suite against the store when they really hurt themselves after hurling themselves onto the floor.
I wonder how many innocent bystanders have been soaked or hit by the flying gallons of milk or juice.

I agree. It's totally stupid.

To be honest, I have far more issues with this "article" than the prank itself. The media is constantly in a rush to declare anything the worst EVER, declining to take into account its relative nature and their hand in its promulgation (though at least you used the question mark in the headline, the laziest, hackiest type of headline that doesn't involve puns).

As for the actual prank, you are literally crying over spilled milk. You don't think throughout history far greater and more destructive pranks haven't been pulled than spilling milk? What a stunning lack of perspective.

You say it's worse than lighting fireworks on the lawns of unknowing people? Really? Even though fireworks are illegal in many states, can start fires/cause property damage, startle someone enough to cause a heart attack, blow off appendages, etc. (I'm not saying these things are common. But it's far easier to lose an eye with fireworks than milk.)?

Further, you are missing the most important point of this prank and feeding the monster for your own gain. It's not that kids are any more or less rotten than any other era (what a ridiculous thing to ever claim or hope to quantify), it's that they have an outlet to showcase their works in the hopes of attaining fame (or infamy).
And here you are, posting a video of these pranks and giving them more hits in the name of what? Using their prank to get crucial hits for YOUR site and your advertisers. Truly through the looking glass, people.

I've never heard if this until now. Thanks for posting the video - now I know not to help these morons up off the floor if I see it happen.

Caught on tape committing vandalism. If they claim they 'slipped', it's fraud caught on video. Prosecute them and we can watch their 'My parents spent my college fund on lawyers to keep me out of jail' video on YouTube.

Rotten punk kids. I'm wondering if any of them were arrested.

Spare the rod and you get kids like these. Shaws needs to prosecute them to the fullest extent the law allows.

Some stupid kids just did this in the Reading Walgreens last week (Walgreens building is in sight of and a mere stone's throw to the police station). According to Police blotter, police were indeed called, as were parents, and all stood by while youths were made to clean it all up. Store owner (I think) agreed not to press charges so long as kids cleaned it up.

They're apparently from Virginia....

http://youtu.be/bX-fgoPXUhY

I agree with various statements here about youtube, facebook, twitter, and other social media outlets. I don't think we've yet felt the full negative impact of these trends. However, kids have been doing stuff like this since well before these things came on the scene. Blowing up mailboxes, tipping cows, the list goes on, and these were being done before there was any chance of putting it up on facebook. I believe the true problem is that for at least 40 - 50 years we've been living in the land of plenty. Most people under 60 in the US have never really experienced real struggle (before anyone gets offended by that comment there are of course exceptions like war veterans, families with severely disabled household members, people who have experienced tragic and devastating loss, etc.). My grandparents generation remembers a time when there were no supermarkets full of milk. Some of those still living to this day reuse ziploc bags until they fall apart and put plastic covers on every piece of furniture in the house. Most kids in the last couple generations have never really gone hungry and think a couple gallons of wasted milk is nothing compared to the value of a great prank. Punishing them won't do any good at all (except maybe some forced public service like working a soup kitchen). Take then on vacation in Haiti this year instead of Disney World.

Stupid but funny

I think most of the people who posted here needed to get out of the house more often as a teen... or remember when they did get out of the house as a teen.

Being that we were looking at $7.00+ to buy that gallon of milk Jan 1st, I'm surprised by the adults responding with the attitude of nonchalance. Sean Ward hit it on the head with our life of "plenty' and not truly knowing, on a wide scale, deprivation and hunger.

With that said, I am posting this to put things into perspective. And yes, I was a rotten teen that did my deeds in my day, too.

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."

I agree that this is sophomoric and disrespectful. It speaks to a number of issues raised by comments above, even if a few were rather off base (i.e. I don't see any link to PTSD.)
On the other hand, I have not witnessed this form of depravity. While I have seen (and admittedly comitted long, long ago) similar acts of stupidity, I have seen more behavior that shows teens being attentive to school work, helping the community (the North Andover HS Rotary Interact club is very popular), attending church, mentoring younger kids, and volunteering. I find it pretty hard to toss out an entire generation based on a foolish minority. If people respect kids they find doing the right thing, more of it would happen, too. Peace, Bill

To Ron Powell: Remember the Fiscal Cliff scare? The news was promising a huge hike in milk prices after the 1st of the year.