Boys will be boys--but not all will do something like this. It's a selfish "look at me" act. His moment of fame and it shows rebelliousness. What other stuff does this young man do--and what will be next? I would personally be embarrassed for him if he were my son--not for myself--but for him.

You mean... a teenager doing a selfish "look at me" act? Shocking!

Conversation heard around 10,000 BC:

Ugga the Cavewoman: "Your son. He run naked through village. He bad! Become serial killer! Society falls! Doom! Despair!"

Ugg the Caveman: "Thassa mah boy!"

Idiotic, childish, etc. And a completely harmless prank.

Kids laughed (and most adults), in the end he takes his punishment and we all move on.

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato.

Big Deal. Raise your (virtual) hand if you never rebelled. Half of those who don't raise their hands have selective memories and I feel pity for the other half. Go for it. Do things. Have fun. No one got hurt. Yep, big deal.

It gives a lot of attention and notice to teens for the wrong thing. Better to admire and remember the athletes who worked hard in a disciplined way to compete fairly. Just what is it we value in our society?
N. Steele

Why would this be funny, basically 17 your body is an adult body and someone is now running around exposing their nude self to small children possibly. Ones that think it is funny obviously would have no problem with a grown man pulling their pants down in front of their toddler or young child. Disgusting!

A man who corners a child to expose himself is a sick man. At the same time, something like this is not sexual. Correlating nudity with sex is part of what swrong with this country. Nudity is natural, but everything is so sexualized! The more things you make tabboo, the more they end up being perverted.

Well, I guess we agree to disagree. I find the world is far too uptight and focuses on minutia instead of the truly horrendous things going on in the wold.

Ironic how people appoint themselves Judge & Jury of others - never "as bad" as the accused, when it is really just a matter of sinning differently. You say yourself Tamarya that you did stupid things, but...........
Wendy, agree with all of your posts...we are realists!

Nevermind he was arrested so this is basically asking if he should be let go and not arrested, so I will answer that, yes he should be charged, if you want to be stupid face the consequences.

And also people find this hilarious but god forbid do not let a lady breastfeed her baby in public. As the ones that find this funny, what goes around comes around, so maybe some adult will run nude through your yard, or maybe we will read this teens picture made its way to a porn site. Then I bet your attitudes will change.

Please lighten up Tamarya - Okay, you paid some obviously pretty harsh consequences for your teenage 'bad acts', seriously though, no matter how you want to spin it, there is no comparison between this prank & the truly criminal, vicious act of a 19 yr. old smashing a 62 yr. old woman's head into a car (see article in The Patch today)
I won't even speculate why you consider a 'streaker' on par with a pedophile, only you know that story. For myself, I am putting an Amen to all this pettiness. Bye....

Here's another one:
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).

Omg Tamayra you really need to stop it was a prank and harmless. You really are uptight. Do you put your children in a bubble. Did you ever think of just talking to your children, telling them that what the boy did is wrong and explain. This is how children learn . That's what's wrong with our kids today parents shield and do everything for their kids. This is the real world .it has been done many a times and I'm sure will be done again. It is parents job to teach our children not society.

Yea tams on a power trip lol....but seriously I think society is uptight and some people on this board too. If you have kids and they ever took a bath time photo or your babies first bath like some have years before us that's now considered child porn. Some agree some disagree but walmart will report you I heard of. A boy running how many yards away is hardly exposing himself if you can't make out details compared to someone who is in front if you flashing someone. Harmless prank yea but the law is the law so he does have to face his actions.

Yes there are a lot worse things than some punk running across a football field naked. The problem is these kids that show no respect to others sometimes grow up and become adults that show no respect to others. Then when they hurt someone we all as a society have to pay the price. So while this was far from the worst thing in the world it was also not just a silly funny prank. The first thing i thought when i saw him run across the field was what a looser but i hope im wrong. I hope he grows up and i wish him well.

I wonder what the people that think it was funny and silly and harmless would be saying if the boy or the officers would have been injured during the pursuit or when they had to pull him off the top of the fence and subdue him.

The USA was always uptight with nudity or the human body compared to other nations and Europe. Look at soccer or tennis and you always see news about a streaker during those matches with the British police running after them. Stupid I know and sorta funny depending on your humor but they are used to it and it doesn't shock them. In the old days I heard parents used to let there kiss run around naked when they were babies and now we are uptight yet starting to push the boundaries on tv and media as is. Who knows what will shock us 5 years from now

Yea I mean you go to Germany and Europe and nudity is art there even in the streets ppl paint or get photographed. I'm not saying kids should be exposed to it but look at how kids are over there drinking at a young age and how open society is there. There work ethic is better and less drunk drivers and roads maintained. Maybe we should be as open!

I agree w/Tamarya. What about the people who had young kids there or young pre teen girls there, technically he could be charged with exposing himself to children and he should be. You would think he would have better judgement at that age. And as someone else said if he would have been hurt they would most likely be looking to sue someone :(

Were any of you leaving comments at the game? If you were, then you would have laughed your ass off! If you didn't laugh, then you must be one of those old stiff boring people that are the brunt if jokes in most movies!! Do you ever wonder why you have no friends?? It's because you're boring and have no common sense. The very same people that are prosecuting this poor kid were streaking back in the 70's themselves. Trust me, your little angels have seen much worse on their cell phones/PC's that YOU provided them. Maybe they should arrest you because you're half the problem. Don't you remember when you were young? Oh, maybe you were one if those kids that were picked on and casted out. Thank GOD you went to therapy and now getting back to society. Oh I forgot...we can't say GOD anymore. We might offend simeone. Get a life!!

So sounds like you have already thought of being handcuffed. That's a different thing. Our society is full of people who are reading "50 shades of gray". Let's just says we may not like everything kids do. We've all been there and survived. Someday it will be a funny memory of his high school days. I'm sure there were a few things you weren't proud of. But.. You still had a good time. It was funny, period. Appropriate , probably not. Life goes on. Take an Advil. You sound stressed.

You're right. Sometimes when we get older we forget to laugh. It's good for the soul.
Enough said.

Society as a whole is messed up...18 to be an adult pose nude, 21 to drink and gamble, 16 is the legal age you can have sex with someone over 18 and up..nothing really makes any sense anymore and noone really follows the rules, like that website in question, it's still up and kids still are posting stuff on that so obviously something needs to change in the world.

Best yet are those ppl who get to post bail after a horrible crime and walk free yet we lock up ppl for lesser crimes. I rather have a child molester locked up then some kid who got caught with pot.