When I saw this headline -- 'Chicken' Game Police Blame In Death Common Among Teens -- I thought it referred to the version I remember from my days as a yoot. Two idiotic kid drivers head their speeding cars toward one another to see who swerves away first. But apparently there is a more modern, even scarier version:
There are numerous videos on YouTube of young teens engaged in the game of chicken, daring each other to jump into the street.
Two 13-year-old boys told 6News they have seen people playing chicken in their neighborhoods.
"There are kids that have to cross the street to get to their houses, and sometimes they'll mess around and jump out in front of cars and try to make it back," said Tyler Mitchell. "It's just crazy, because all it takes is one slip or trip, and then he's dead."
The teens said peer pressure is often involved in the dangerous game.
Ah, the always handy peer pressure: "I dare you to prove how crazy you are!" Look, I know kids lack judgment, that each generation tends to top the previous one in risky behavior, and that we forget our own youthful indiscretions when we get to the older and wiser tsk, tsk stage. But, hey, it's my turn. Stoopid kids.
