Teens

A 16-year-old caught in an embarrassing photo forever enshrined in the school yearbook is skipping the rest of the school year. Given how relentless teens can be with the teasing, we wouldn’t be surprised if she wound up trying to change schools.

Fortunately this story has a happy ending.

While it might seem like a harsh sentence, it might be preventing a couple of potential future serial killers from going wild.

Police say a Saginaw teen who escaped naked from a youth home robbed and pushed a woman working in her yard.

Last month a teen was shot for egging a car, and now another teen has been shot for toilet papering a house. We’re officially coining the new phrase “prank rage”.

A toilet paper prank has led to the shooting of a 14-year-old by a southwestern Michigan man who believed strangers were trying to break into his home.

The Grand Rapids Press and WZZM-TV report the victim and four other teens were pulling the prank about 1 a.m. Sunday at a home in Solon Township, about 20 miles northeast of Grand Rapids.

Kent County sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Miedema said the teens were intent on draping the house in toilet paper, while the homeowner’s “intent was to come out shooting.”

A 14-year-old Dallas boy is facing charges for driving off with his mom’s car — with her in it — and refusing to let her exit. He then led police on a car chase throughout Dallas and Fort Worth before finally being stopped. That’s a kid with some angst!

Police said the teen had threatened to kill his mother and drove for about an hour around the western part of Dallas before heading west on Interstate 30 and into Fort Worth. Police there used special sticks to puncture his tires as he entered Fort Worth and was forced to stop.

During the chase, the boy tried to cause a crash with a police vehicle by slamming on his brakes and he also rammed at least one police vehicle by backing into it, Dallas police said.

Authorities are indicating that records show a 16-year-old girl who died in a fatal car crash was texting on her phone moments before impact.

Kayla Preuss, of Highland, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed. She died of head injuries.

Authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding. But another factor may have contributed to the crash.

Phone records show Preuss was texting just before the accident. Her cell phone, which was flipped open, was found resting on the floorboard by her feet.

Apparently a couple of teenagers on a rail platform in Britain didn’t take to kindly to a woman chiding them for smoking. The two allegedly proceeded to shove the woman onto the train tracks.

The woman, whose identity is not known, suffered burns and a suspected broken collar bone and was taken to the hospital after the incident, at Farningham Road station in Kent during the rush hour shortly after 7a.m.

South Eastern train services between Kent and London were disrupted because the power had to be turned off.

The woman had asked the youths to stop smoking on the station platform, where smoking is banned, the train company said.

A scuffle started and she was thrown on to the track before fellow passengers dragged her off.

A 13-year-old involved in a boating accident that killed his mother and little sister was turned over to relatives.

On Sunday, RCMP sent out about 20 people in 10 boats to comb an area of the Mackenzie Delta for two others who are presumed drowned - the boy’s grandfather and a 40-year-old man who is a distant relative.

Staff Sgt. Bill Eubank said the boy, who comes from a well-known, large family in the Inuvik area, has been reunited with members of his extended family after managing to make it to shore, where he spent 48 hours waiting to be rescued.

On Saturday, a boater who had joined the search spotted the teen sitting on the rugged shore about 64-kilometres northwest of Inuvik, and quickly piloted his boat in to pick him up.

An Alabama teenager shot an infant in the head with a BB gun, thinking that it wasn’t loaded. Surprisingly, the teenager is a girl, proving that not only teen boys do stupid stuff.

Police said the 11-month-old was taken to the University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital and treated for what seemed to be non-life-threatening injuries.

The baby’s godmother, Shirley Ann Coleman of Prichard, was caring for her. Police said another teen was holding the baby when Coleman’s 14-year-old daughter fired the BB gun at the baby from about four feet away.

Police said the 14-year-old said she didn’t think the gun was loaded because she had fired it earlier and “it sounded like only air came out.”

Shackled and handcuffed, a 13 year old female delinquent steels the van that was transporting her to prison. Could it be next years blockbuster?

A 13-year-old Lynwood girl being taken back to Illinois from southern Indiana in a prison transport van stole the vehicle and drove off after the lost driver stopped to ask for directions, police said.

And she did it all while handcuffed and shackled.

The girl, who made it to Chicago before getting caught, was ordered held in juvenile detention Friday.

An Oregon boy was in a surfing accident in the Pacific Ocean that caused him to lose his arm.

Cole Ortega, 14, of Bend collided with a dory boat that was coming into shore Sunday morning in 8- to 10-foot swells, said Sheriff Todd Anderson of Tillamook County. The collision occurred about 100 yards off the beach at a time when there were numerous surfers and boats in the water.

Fellow surfers helped Ortega to shore, where he was aided by an Oregon State Police trooper. An emergency room doctor who happened to be walking on the beach then stabilized the boy until he could be transferred to Tillamook County General Hospital, Anderson said. A LifeFlight helicopter then took him to a Portland trauma center.

A Georgia teen has been arrested and charged with child cruelty after a video of him launching an infant across the room was reported to police.

The video posted on YouTube shows the teenage boy putting a baby on one side of a large, inflatable pillow on the floor.

The boy then jumps on the pillow and the baby flies several feet across the room before landing on the floor and crying.

The 16-year-old Lee County boy was arrested Tuesday after a school teacher saw the video and called the sheriff’s office. The boy’s name was not released because of his age.

Adding a “bear element” definitely would add some interest to the Tour de France.

A 14-year-old girl riding in a 24-hour mountain bike race was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night and severely injured, but was able to make a brief emergency phone call that resulted in her rescue.

The girl suffered head, neck, torso and leg wounds.

She underwent surgery and was in critical condition at Providence Alaska Medical Centre, police said.

The attack occurred along a trail in a 24-hour race organised by the Arctic Bicycle Club in Bicentennial Park.

Rescuers had to hike in more than 3km to reach the girl.

A Florida teen wrestled with an alligator and lost during a late night swim in a canal.

Kasey Edwards, 18, of Okeechobee, Fla., lost his left arm after grappling with the 11-foot long alligator in a canal at 2 a.m. Sunday.

“I felt something lock down and had the sensation of needle nose pliers, just a gigantic set of them, clamping down,” Edwards told FOX affiliate WFLX-TV.

Edwards admits he and his friends were drinking before he decided to jump in the 25-foot-deep canal in Nubbin Slough in Okeechobee County.

“I’ve heard different rumors of what was involved and there were no drugs involved, no dare, nobody pushed me in or something,” Edwards told WFLX-TV.