>>I read that car burning had become a sort of standard juvenile
prank in France. So far this year, not counting the cars burnt in
the current riots, over 20,000 (twenty thousand) cars have been
burnt in France. So perhaps it's less serious than it looks.
Car burning a prank? Well maybe, compared to the rough and tumble
barrens of my youth. In that part of Pennsylvania, marauding
bands of feral teenagers applied a standard prank (or "raid")that
consisted of killing the males of a community, enslaving the
women and children, burning the houses and shacks down, and
salting the lawns and gardens. Any house pets were freed.
But that was a simpler time, almost quaint by comparison.
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