When I turned sixteen some friends got some beers and we headed up top a hill in the neighborhood to drink it, rather quiet, desolate area at night but within the public realm. We weren't there long when the cops showed up, some managed to run and get away. Fortunately we also had some pop in the vehicle and managed to convince the cops we had just came up for a few minutes to gather for my birthday and have a couple pops. The moral of that story is, back than there wasn't much you could get away with, it's like the cops had all the time in the world to chase young kids around. Fast forward to today, and there's what they call "meet ups" where groups of people show up at a meet up point to rev cars, do burnouts, and race. This last weekend they shut down our major highway through town, even worse, where it intersects to switch north/south/east/west through town. No one was caught and the highway was scared full of tread marks. After they got done with that evening thrill and evading the cops, they went out to a local mall parking lot, was doing the same thing, and someone ended up getting shot. As far as I know, unlike one last year, the person survived but it goes to show how much more people get away with now compared to years ago.