Just for Kicks

A news item on the front page of the Star-Tribune this morning:

Police in Maine arrested arsonists after they posted a video of their crime on YouTube- with credits.

It made me think of a couple teenagers I knew 30+years ago who were arrested for putting cherry bombs in- and blowing up- mailboxes. "We would have stopped sooner," one of them told me, "if they had put it in the newspaper that mailboxes were being blown up."

Sometimes it is for the thrill of reading about it.