Makes me sick reading things like this! I can just imagine this kid growing up and killing people eventually as Si rightly said!! This is madness! And I bet he probably got these ideas from the TV and not knowing what is right and wrong!! If he is left unpunished for these actions then he will turn to worse and worse and eventually another Jamie Bulger case I think it was called!! Agreed community service will help, financial punishment will be for the parnets to handle, but for a kid like this community service is probably the best answer as he will then think twice about attempting any stunts like this again, especially if it means him havign to spend hours on end picking up litter and doing a chain gang thing, and the idea of time for a kid doing something he hates feels much longer than for adults! Only fun things seem to go quickly..