Teens ‘stealing’ watermelons prank
Tue, 2014-06-24 09:59
News Staff
By Willis Webb
As one might expect, teenagers in a small Texas town in the 1950s had to hunt for excitement and sometimes that was often spelled t-r-o-ub- l-e. Left to their own designs, with no real entertainment available, teenage boys can create a whole mess of trouble. Now remember this was more than 60 years ago, a more innocent time. None of this would fly today. At that time, most
small town area farmers, although many wouldn’t admit it, counted on a group of teenage boys stealing at least one watermelon from them every summer. And, if a young teenage boy thought he had “stolen” a melon and gotten away with it, then he was a B.M.O.C. (Big Man On Campus).
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