Two teenagers dirty police vans: as punishment they have to clean them up using only a toothbrush
On the education of your children, you can write whole chapters and discuss which are the best methods for teaching respect and good manners from an early age. No parent would want their child to become a delinquent and, for this very reason, they try to do everything to keep them in line, especially during the adolescent period - which can be, perhaps, the most traumatic. The ideal punishment? It probably doesn't exist and we wouldn't even want to dwell on the effectiveness or otherwise of punishments in this article. What matters is that, sometimes, a slightly more decisive stance works very well.
The police in Peterlee, Sunderland (UK), organized a very educational punishment for the two boys who, very uncivilly, covered some police vans with mud.
via Facebook / Peterlee Police
Two 16-year-olds thought it would be fun to put on balaclavas and throw mud at local police vans at night. Sure of not being filmed, the two teenagers hadn't thought about the consequences of their stunt. Unfortunately for them, however, the officers managed to identify them and take them to the station. Faced with such behavior, the Peterlee police wanted to take practical action to stop the antisocial behavior of the two boys and deter them for the future. To make them understand the gravity of their actions, the police decided to have them clean all the vans they had soiled, using only a toothbrush. And so it was: the two boys spent an entire afternoon cleaning up the damage they had done.
Unsplash / Not the actual photo
Police inspector Emma Kay reiterated how dangerous it is to throw objects of any kind at a moving vehicle and argues, with some confidence, that the two teenagers will have a chance to reflect on their actions as they try to get all the mud off of the cars with the help of a simple toothbrush. The parents of these two boys immediately approved of the punishment that the local police had organized for their children, contributing, among other things, to the purchase of toothbrushes.
Naturally, this exemplary punishment was frowned upon by the whole neighborhood, so much so that one local suggested resorting to this type of measures also in other cases in people cause pointelss damage. Just think of those who throw their waste on the ground or don't know the meaning of separating their recycling: why not try to organize educational "punishments" in these cases too? A few weeks of garbage collection could be an efficient solution. What do you think?
