Dane Cook's Terrible Comedy Drives Our Nation's Youth To Lives Of Crime

Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET

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teens from the hardscrabble town of Litchfield, Connecticut, have entered guilty pleas to "a three-town crime spree that authorities say was inspired by a joke by alleged comedian Dane Cook. The teens smashed mail boxes at 14 homes in Norfolk, Colebrook and Winsted and threw rocks through some windows and the crimes escalated to two home invasions. Officials say the defendants were enacting a joke Cook made on an HBO special about committing a 'B&E,' or breaking and entering."

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God, it's bad enough that kids are actually listening to Dane Cook, let alone using him as inspiration. What's next for these young punks, stealing?

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