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Did / Do 20 somethings really act like this?

posted 8 years ago by vnse
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I'm about the same age as these people were in 1999 and I didn't know anyone who acted or talked anything remotely like that. Granted I didn't hang in drug dealer circles, but still I knew a lot of people from various backgrounds. Yeah we partied, got high, tried to get laid every second of every day. But I can say with 100% certainty, nobody I knew would have even thought of doing something as idiotic as kidnapping. And if I showed up at a party and was told there was a kidnapping victim there, I'd run as fast as I could away from the place. Hell, I'd be on the phone to 911 in about 5 seconds after leaving come to think of it.

Is it just a SoCal thing where upper middle-class kids act like total D-Bags 24/7 and have an IQ of 80?

[–] dl4060 8 years ago

It's not just a socal thing. I went to college in socal and my friends were not like this. We were like you: Partying, studying and trying to get laid. No one I knew would have participated in anything remotely like this.

[–] MissGoldHeart 8 years ago

Well, as I'm sure you know, this incident actually happened, so yes people do behave this way. AND I'm sure you know that it's not just a southern california thing. There are idiots with no conscience or common sense everywhere in this world.

[–] brutuslignarius 8 years ago

OP,

You must be a Gen Xer, and also, I posted the same thing a few days ago.

They acted like hardcore criminals from the hood, but they were all from well-off families. And yes, suburban kids LARP like criminals, but they don't take it to this level. They are too scared of jail.

Whole subculture was odd, and these kids parents were straight up odd too.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

Gen xer? If the OP is a teenager now, he would be generation Zed. Gen x is from 60s-70s, sometimes even up to early or mid 80s. So the oldest gen xer would be almost 60 and the youngest in their mid 30s if you count those born in the mid 80s.

[–] Mattc164 (618) a year ago

OP said he was the same age as those kids in 1999. Meaning that in 1999 he was the age of them. So he was born in the early 80s maybe late 70s.
He is a gen x.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 6 years ago

This movie is based on fact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_Hollywood

[–] jgm4661 (82) 6 years ago

It was really a story about the hated rivalry between Johnny Truelove and Jake Mazursky ( and their real life counterparts) .

Truelove lived in a world of power, wealth and hedonism supplied by his business network of drug dealers he employed who could fall into debt due to their own use and carelessness. Jake Mazursky was one of them and a real life thug and when he fell behind it led to threats back and forth and vandalism.

The pt was Truelove thought he could do anything in his position. The kidnapping showed this hubris and an incomprehension to the reality of consequences of their crimes . Another problem was these characters operated in such a party atmosphere as a rule making them further oblivious to any sense of reality.

The partying may be common to this age group in this area, but the other behavior was specific to really 2 people in a drug exchange that went bad and spiraled out of control