Teens ticketed in gang incident
JANESVILLE — Five teenage boys were ticketed on charges of disorderly conduct, and one of them was ticketed for carrying a concealed weapon, after police responded to a disturbance Tuesday evening in the 500 and 600 blocks of Cornelia Street.
Two groups of boys were challenging each other to fight, but no fight erupted, police reported. And while they confiscated a screwdriver and pocketknife from one of the boys, the boys and other witnesses told police no weapons were displayed.
Police described the disturbance as gang-related because several of the boys claimed affiliation with a street gang.
The brouhaha was triggered when a couple of boys from one group made fun of the younger brother of a member of the other group, police reported.
Sounds like more of a hubbub than a brouhaha, but at least it didn't escalate into a full out hullabaloo!
2 comments:
sounds like it was reported by kent brockman.
I'm sure that reporters have bets with each other about what they can get away with writing. i know that in the 80's the copy editors of a national english paper had a contest to see who could slip through the most boring headline. the winner was:
Small earthquake, not many dead.
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