Teens

Our species is enamored with taking selfies. It’s been estimated that Millennials will take a staggering 25,000 pictures of themselves across their lifetime! But it’s not just young people who want to get the perfect self-portrait.

Adults are doing it, too, and for some of them, it’s the last thing they ever do….

“I can’t call them social networks anymore. I call them behavior modification empires.”

Stop signs serve a really important purpose: they warn drivers they’re approaching danger. But what happens if a stop sign isn’t where it’s supposed to be? What happens if there’s no warning?

Sadly, our entire nation learned that grim lesson back in 1996.

When Mark Cropp was 17, the New Zealander made the bad decision of pulling a knife on a tourist. Sadly, the prison sentence he faced for the crime wasn’t enough…

As promised, Jessica brought her new boyfriend, Dylan, by the house to meet her parents on Friday evening. When they opened the front door, mom and dad weren’t exactly thrilled by the young man standing on their doorstep.

An elderly – and very wise – man finally retired and bought a home in a neighborhood near a junior high school. Since it was summer, he spent the first few weeks of retirement in quiet contentment.

But then school resumed…and middle school kids began canvassing the neighborhood.

On Christmas Day in 2013, Carmen Lopez of Bothell, Washington sat around the tree with her family to open up presents. Her parents were planning on surprising the teenager with the gift of her dreams.

But when Carmen opened the box, everyone was surprised. Then confused. Then disappointed.

In November of 2011, the Snay family won a hard fought legal battle against Gulliver Preparatory School in South Florida on the grounds of discrimination. They were awarded a whopping $90,000 in the settlement.

And then one careless Facebook post cost them all of it.

Let’s say you’ve just escaped jail and you’re on the run from the law when you see your picture posted online. What would you do?

No matter how you answer that question, it’s different from what this Australian teen did.

Though he was a football player on his middle school team, Keith Orr was not destined for athletic glory. He weighed a mere 95 pounds and had a learning disorder.

But everything changed when his teammates started plotting….