Great anecdote. I was thinking how unfair it was to make the jokesters pay until…

the excuse the doorbreaker kid’s parents gave was that he was autistic, couldn’t understand it was a joke and wanted to help.

Yeah. If you create the conditions in which someone acts, then you share responsibility.

There is always some son-of-a-bitch who doesn’t get the word. - John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.