Amen Curly!

unless he was on the football team, then he should just get a slap on the wrist and get out just in time to play the next game.

Oh hell to the no! He probably has his parents so far up his butt its unhealthy. If he chooses to take drugs and rob peoples cars and take things, send him to jail. though his picture is unflattering to say the least, he totally deserves it and for the judge to let him not get out is great! Something good done in NJ for a change.

This is not a fella arrested for Drug Possession, Use, Abuse, etc... He has been arrested for Breaking and Entering and Felony Trespassing.

As a parent of 3 teens, and a teenage drug user during the 70s/80s, I know for a fact that not every Thief is a druggie and not every druggie resorts to criminal theft. As such I see no need to parallel the two!

Should we decriminalize certain currently illegal drugs, my personal opinion is yes and mainly for all the reasons you listed.

Should we decriminalize Felonies for those under the influence??

HECK NO!

Stop blaming society for the world's woes on drugs! It is not a social problem, but an individual's problem! No one stuck a needle in this kid's arm, HE CHOSE TO DO SO!
He needs to suffer the consequences. I am so tired of people who find the need to pin the blame on everyone else, the environment, our society. This kid had a choice & he could have said no!

There are many kids who grew up in impovershed areas where drugs and alchohol were rampant, yet they chose to do the right thing.

I do not want my taxpayer dollars to "channel & Coax." Once again, this boils down to parental neglect. Even with parental neglect, this kid could have said no & he did not.

How about you let him come home with you & live in YOUR house if you don't want to see him in jail. Obviously you've never been around any substance abusers.

Scondo I agree....I have always said rehabilitate don't incarcerate ..Jail isn't the answer for these kids....Drug Rehab, although not guaranteed, is a better approach then spending time in jail....

I agree curly and just to add, he's 18 as stated so he's not a kid he's a legal adult and deserves to be punished as such.

If you can do the crime you can do the time !!! To satisfy the libral heart, lock him up in a rehab facillity which he must complete inorder to be set free at the completion of his sentence.

You should not be calling people who have a different opinion from yours idiots That is disrespectful and speaks volumes about you. To use your own words, you are the biggest "I" of all

Actually, I do not share your opinion. This person is old enough to make a decision and to say no to drugs. He needs to suffer the consequences for his actions. Instead, you call other commenters "idiots" & blame them for not opening their eyes.

Open up your eyes to the negligent parents (spare me the sob story about the parents) for not instilling integrity & morals to their child. The parents and the child both have choices & apparently, both chose the wrong ones. No one is to blame except themselves.

Quite frankly, as a parent, my role is to parent, & not to shirk my reponsibilities as a parent. With that said, I am not lax & liberal as you sound to be & I would teach a valuable lesson if that were my kid by allowing him to suffer the consequences for his action. I would not take the easy way out & bail him out. Tough love for life's tough lessons are in order!

Neither the people who expressed a different view from yourself, or, myself is an idiot. You should take a look at yourself in the mirror!

Peter, once again I agree

agreed

T. None of that matters ...

Thank you for this comment scondo, it is so true. He is indeed though in need of tough love. I honestly believe that he needs to sit there a bit and get really scared before he gets bailed out. It may just be the beginning of a serious reality check that this young man needs. It hurts to say it, but it's how we feel :(

Scando, I thought I would never agree with you on the Patch. For everyone who is following this post I just want you to know that I have had my home broken into and things taken. With that said I believe this young man needs a chance to get his life in order. I would hope that the courts offer him the option to go to a rehap and that will give him a chance to start in a recovery program. What I wonder is how this child could get through the school system and not have anyone notice that he had an addiction problem. I'm sure he is not the only child within the Wayne School system that is flying under the radar. To me that is the problem. Let's give this child a break, I believe any of us would want our own child in this situation to begiven a second chance.

OMG badboosieheight, in the future I would advise you to review your words before posting. You write like this and you are telling the kid to go to college???? WOW!!! Trust me when I say that I'm not trying to start an arguement with you, I'm just surprised that you would post this.

Sorry Nes, perhaps you can take your own advice & review your words before posting....the last time I checked I believe "arguement" was not spelled the way you spelled it.

Even though Badboosieheight's post is not worthy of an English literature award, it was enough for you to have read it and understood. There are many people who may not have had the opportunity to go to school, or, to college, but yet have the wisdom to reflect and see the need for our youth of today to seek higher education. That is an accomplishment in itself!

I was responding to Nes.

I am entitled to my opinion. Where did I say that I was perfect? That is just your flawed sense of interpretation. My head is where it shoud be, unlike yours! Perhaps, you are a failure in life and envy people who are smart!

You made a derogatory, snide remarks, even referencing Gov. Christie as having a "XXXlargebody." What does that have to do with the subject at hand? What does his weight have to do with anything? I am just making this point because obviously you are the one who thinks that you are better than everyone else & you criticized a person for their appearance! It clearly demonstrates your level of your maturity! You are a disgrace, narrow-minded, and disrespectful. I guess you are a model of perfection and beauty since you obviously are the judge of appearance for others! If I had to sum it up, you are yearning to be what you are not, since you are attacking what you really are, hideous looking, disrespectful, and pompous!

I rest my case & will not dignify answering back to you!

I am nice to everyone. I guess you cannot take your own advice. You are preaching about being nice, when you mocked Gov. Christie's weight of XXXlarge body which has nothing to do with the topic, nor, should it matter how a person looks in life. Are you being nice?

You said to take my head out of my....., is that nice?

Please look up the word nice as you seriously do not know what it means! Your head is where it should not be!

I remember when he sold me my first fake Louis vuitton belt.

Right on bobert!

o ok

That's really profound.

I do not think he actually posted that, I think it was a kid who hated him and was trying to set him up. Either way it should be looked into, if in fact it was posted by a teacher he should be fired, if a student impersonating him there should be a suspension. The administration should also question why he is widely disliked as you suggest.