Arson is defined as the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property.
These kids sticking stuff into laptops to break them have most likely seen that it can cause sparks or fires. And when they do it anyway, that’s arson.
Arson can get juvenile time behind bars in a detention facility. And that’s assuming they don’t charge them as an adult. If they’re charged as an adult, arson can get them 10 years in prison. It will be easy to charge them because you don’t just accidentally stick metal objects into a computer. And if you do, any reasonable person would expect it to break and spark.
And if prison time is a bit too harsh, they should at least be personally responsible to pay back for every penny of damage to both the computer and anything else damaged in the resulting fire, either out of their personal savings or via a school-sponsored minimum-wage job. And they’re also expelled.
These 0.01 GPA activities are getting so out of hand.
Usually I’m not for banning the Internet, but if TikTok convinces someone to commit literal crimes, then they should not be allowed access to the internet. Even for school. Make them do assignments on paper and research using those bulky textbooks.
It’s fine if you just lurk on those videos to see what the 0.01 GPA population is doing. Everyone gets curious every once in a while. But when you copy those activities for useless internet points, you shouldn’t be allowed to learn of more of those activities for public safety reasons.
It is quite unfortunate that these 0.01 GPA students are effecting the students who actually want to learn (like me back when I was in high school).