Brian Holloway (a linebacker and gentleman) vs. 300 spoiled brads on a crime spree (and their delusional parents)

During the LaborDay weekend of 2013, 300 high school kids decided to have fun and broke into the $1.5

million home of former All-Pro NFL lineman Brian Holloway. They not only trashed his Stephentown, NY vacation home, but proudly tweeted about their step-by-step drinking, drug using and destruction spree.

The result of their “handiwork”?

• Around $20,000 in damages
• Scars on the floor from where they dragged keggers into the mansion
• Ruined carpets soaked with beer, liquor and other beverages
• Punched walls
• Graffiti on wooden walls
• 10 bags of empty liquor bottles, 50 empty bottles of liquor and drug paraphernalia

Amazingly enough, Mr. Holloway was extremely gracious about the episode. Being a father himself, he showed concern for these out-of-control brads and wanted to help.

He stated: “Everything broken can be fixed, everything that was stolen can be replaced, but 300 lives are in trouble. The most important thing is to save these kids lives.”

He appealed to the adolescent-delinquents-in-training (my phrasing, not his) to come forward and make amends by helping to clean up and help with a benefit for veterans. He also set up a website www.helpmesave300.com where almost all of the photos and tweets have been uploaded from the Labor Day weekend destruction spree (Chapeau for social media and the vanitas vanitatis of adolescent narcissists!)

On this site, Holloway wrote: "Come out and help set up, fix up, bring food, and picnic stuff, so we can honor these real HEROS. I'm here. Come now. Take a stand for your future. This is called redemption."

The response: only one (1) showed up! (I applaud this kid and his/her parents). It however painfully illustrates that a staggering 299 spoiled brads and their dysfunctional parent units just did not give a damn. Even worse: some of those parents are angry about the web site and the posted photos of their little darlings. They even threatened to sue Holloway.

His baffled response: "Your kids are in my house breaking and stealing my stuff and you are mad at me because I posted pictures that they took and posted themselves of them partying and tearing things up?"

Note to the patents of @nicky_roden23, @mhart7, @_cwarren2546, @DFresh518, @@RickNels, @Alwiha_Skaarup, @BigTone5621, @ricky_roden23 – please wake up and smell the coffee. Your kid is on a slippery slope to deviant behavior/crime (that cannot be justified as a “youthful indiscretion”). Your offspring is exposed now and will be searchable for years to come on the World Wide Web. The tweets and pics (posted by your brads themselves with the smartphones you pay for!) will impact their admission to a decent college/university as well as any job application since it shows that they committed a criminal act. So success with that! As the parent unit of an out-of-control kid – please make amends. It’s the least you and your kids can do.

Some gems posted by the little thugs (for future reference and general amusement): 

Guatemala Is Cracking Down On Cell Phone Thieves

In most countries, stealing a cell phone is prosecuted as petty theft. In Guatemala, this kind of theft has grown into a “national emergency”.  Cell phone theft is often violent, resulting in grave bodily harm and even death.

Guatemala is a country with around 15 million residents and a phone theft of 12,000 everymonth. According to the Superintendency of Telecommunications, a staggering 142,745 cell phones were stolen in 2012, representing an increase of 40% compared to the previous year 2011. It means that every 4 minutes, a person is robbed of his/her cell phone.

Guatemala decided to tackle the problem. Recently, the Congress passed a law making cell phone theft punishable with stiff prison sentences of up to 15 years and fines up to $ 31,250). Furthermore, the passed law also creates a national register of devices used in the country.

According to the new law, cell phone theft:

• Carries penalties of between 5 to 10 years in prison for thieves- without possibility of parole
• Carries fines of 40,000 to 100,000 quetzals ($5,000 to $12,500) for people who purchase phones from questionable sources
• Carries prison sentences of 6 to 10 years for persons selling cell phones illegally
• Carries fines of 100,000 to 250,000 quetzals ($12,500 and $31,250) for individuals selling phones illegally

Furthermore, the use of cell phones in prison, by inmates or employees will also be punishable under the new law.

We can only applaud Guatemala on its initiative!

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