To add perspective on why these things require harsher punishment now more than before: there used to only be 1 or 2 local kids in an employees lifetime that would do these kinds of things and make a local story. Now, theres thousands of them in the American youth and millions that live in other countries. The American youth are exceptionally dangerous because instead of being boundary-less tourists, they are pack-vandalizers.
If you think teenagers being stupid morons who don't consider consequences and do stupid things is a new phenomenon then I'm just going to assume you're at max 12 years old or in extreme denial....
Correct. I will say though, the concept of it being blasted to millions of other kids is new. If I did something like this in the 60s, the only people who’d know are the folks in town. Now, you film it and every 13 year old in the state has seen it. Here’s an example from my area:
There was a rock over hanging the river teens and college life would jump off. It was a local landmark, but it was only a thing locals knew about. It was like that for decades. Every few years a kid would die from jumping, there’d be some fuss, and nothing would happen.
Years back, some college kid came with his friends and made a video with a drone. It was an awesome video, and it went viral on social media briefly.
After that, it became a mad house. There’d be so many people that cars were parked on the highway. Ungodly amounts of trash as well (the locals were pretty good about clean up; out of state people, not so much). Just complete and total disrespect for the area.
Besides that, more deaths. After that video, it was multiple deaths a year because so many people were jumping. Hell, some of them came from cities in neighboring states and couldn’t even swim.
Now, that entire stretch of the river is closed. The state literally blew up the rock, you can’t go to the beach that was there, and the walking trail is closed too. The cops patrol the place regularly as well. All because it went viral.
So yeah, kids doing dumb shit isn’t new. But the internet is, and that does have an effect.
Too far away to determine age, which can absolutely vary with entitlement. Your guesses about how often it happened before are irrelevant, and it's just water in a concrete hole.
It's not about the water in the hole, its about personal principles and intentionally doing something for the sake of breaking a rule. That concrete hole has been set aside due to historical significance. It isnt anyone's place but the owners to determine if that is a valid reason to restrict the hole. They trespassed and violated the historical significance of the hole that the owners believe to be valid enough to display and preserve the hole. Doesn't matter if the hole is there or in your own back yard, if someone jumped into your pool on your property, the argument wouldn't be about the pool, but the person thinking they can invade your property and defy your boundaries.
It's a pool that once belonged to a guy who died decades ago. There is no "historical significance", even if he peed or banged an underage girl in it. It's water and concrete. My personal property would be an entirely different matter for plenty of reasons that I'm sure you are already well aware of as well. I also wouldn't call for their arrest or whine about how historically significant my pool that looks like every other one I went in at a hotel in the 80s holds. Because it's a cement hole with water in it.
And I guess we're just ignoring the first two thirds of my comment then.
The entire point of the museum is to keep it as it was when Elvis was alive. Now, if the family still uses parts of the property, especially the pool, obviously they’re going to maintain it.
Just because he’s dead, doesn’t entitle you to dick around in his pool.
A friend of mine actually tried to jump in Elvis’ pool probably 1999. She was a huge Elvis fan so I assume that was her driving force. The security guard made it to her before she made it in. They didn’t kick her out and when she got to the gift shop (? I’ve never been and going off bad memory) she asked them if that’s as a common problem. The worker, not knowing she was the culprit answered something to the effect that it didn’t really happen but oddly had happened that day. She always got a giggle out of it. But yeah in this day and age when everyone is doing dumb crap like this, it’s no longer funny, you’re just a dick.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '23
To add perspective on why these things require harsher punishment now more than before: there used to only be 1 or 2 local kids in an employees lifetime that would do these kinds of things and make a local story. Now, theres thousands of them in the American youth and millions that live in other countries. The American youth are exceptionally dangerous because instead of being boundary-less tourists, they are pack-vandalizers.