Firebug caused $2.4m damage to school

Firebug caused $2.4m damage to school : "The boy's lawyer told the court alcohol was involved to a minor degree in the his actions and it was an impulsive act with no great degree of premeditation."

2.4 million dollars wowrth of damage ...and not something he really thought about. Sounds awful. He just did it because he felt like it? 16 and he thought setting a fire in a school might be a good idea. Bit of fun maybe? The heartache to the primary children , their parents and their teachers won't have a cost. They have lost so much in this and will be the ones doing the clean up.They will rally and recover but it will make them feel sick and it will hurt them deeply. Someone always has a good character until they do something awful. You only have to murder someone once, explode something once, set fire to a building or the bush once. That's the whole point. You don't have a good character if you are going to heap this much damage and misery onto people. This boy probably didn't mean to do this much harm. he probably doesn't know how the school and its population will feel. he probably didn't intend for it to get this much out of hand. He will now know what a random thought, idea can do and he will be thinking about it. At this stage he doesn't seem to be safe, but setting fires and exploding things seems to be a stage kids can go through. they like the bigness of it. He needs to be in the army or down in the mines. A lot of city kids still have a pioneer mentality so to speak and that can be channelled into working on oil rigs, ship building. They like loud, noisy and extreme. I am sure the courts will determine whether he can be channelled into the right future from this point because the community is likely to be pretty angry with him.