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15 Feb ’12
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Totally different world we live in these days, welcome to real world punishment boys
Four Idaho students angry over suspensions took revenge on their high school principal by burning down his house while he and his family were still inside, police said.
Mark Heleker and his wife and daughter were able to escape in time, Chief Mark Clark of the City of Payette Police Department told NBC News. But the accused teenagers were undone when they bragged on Snapchat about torching the house.
"They were describing how the fire had started and that information had not been made public yet," Clark said. "From that point on, we were able to determine who was making the comments."
The alleged criminal quartet — three high-schoolers and one middle-school student, all boys younger than 18 — are all in custody, Clark added. And two of them face first-degree arson charges that could send them to jail for life.
"In Idaho, arson automatically puts them in adult court," Clark said. "A conviction potentially carries a life sentence because the fire could have resulted in a death."
All four are also charged with conspiracy to commit arson, the chief said.
"It appears to be retaliation against the principal for a couple of them being suspended for the week prior for drug-related activity," Clark said.
6 Oct ’15
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Stupid goes both ways...this isn't as bad as arson...but pretty stupid.
19 Feb ’12
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I'm not taking up for them in ANY way, but a local disc jockey talked about the story at length today. Supposedly, they lit a trash can on fire, and it took off from there. Doesn't seem like they intentionally set the house on fire.
15 Feb ’12
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Yeah but the result was the same
6 Oct ’15
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...yeah...I mean if they didn't get the concept of 'fire being a stupid idea' then IMO it's not about what they thought, it's about them lacking reasonable judgment and disregard for other's safety and property (plus this is a terrorizing act, I can't imagine what it would be like to see that fire while I was inside my house) These are the kind of actions that should not be dismissed and IMO dealt with very harshly, and their parents should be on the hook for this one in a big way.
I may seem harsh on this; but when my grand parents bought their home/farm after they emigrated to America, the first night they were there woken up to a burning cross in the yard...and this is in the North and they were white. The motivation for why this happened may have been different, but the terror they felt ran deep for years.
15 Feb ’12
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where did they come from?
6 Oct ’15
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Southern Austria (Alps/Dolomites) and Switzerland. Grandpa said our oral history was that we were originally slaves from Egypt and most likely Jewish before we were 'Christianized' in Europe. So when they got to America they were immigrants and catholic. The story of the 'fire' was there were people outside in white robes. It was a little over 100 years ago when this happened. It is interesting to be connected to an experience like this through my families history. Has given me a lot of perspective over the years about a lot of things.
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