Why do college kids do all kinds of stupid sh-t?

My husband is a full time student at the University of Delaware; we live on campus in family housing. Last night some piece of sh-t drunk college kid pushed over his motorcycle. The frame is bent and the bike is now totaled. It was an older bike so Progressive wouldn't put collision on it so we're now out the $1300 book value. We were going to sell it to have some much needed extra cash for a move in 2 months. Because it happened overnight no one in the complex saw anything. We filed a police report and the cop says that someone definitely pushed it.
What are parents thinking when they send their evil little offspring off to college? I just read a survey where a majority of parents think that drinking is a vital part of the college experience. Are these parents high themselves? Why are parents such pushovers nowadays? I'm so pissed I could just strangle the demon spawn that did this! My husband and I are out A LOT of money because someone couldn't behave!

P.S I'm 21 and my husband is 24. Our parents would literally kill us if we did something like that!

You were victimized by someone who was immature and drunk. He did what he did because he was immature and drunk, not because he was in college. Your husband is a college student and, as you say, he would never do such a thing. Neither would most of my students, but there is the occasional idiot who would. The same is true of those in the non-college population. You find similar patterns among others at that age - the military is a good example. There are some who, at a young age, are responsible human beings, and others who are drunken louts. Late teens and early twenties are times in which many people go through a lot of growth. Some mature early, while others take longer. Since most college students fall into that age group, and since they are isolated into peer groups, rather than being integrated into the working population, it can look like the problem is college.

I read the other day that the drinking culture is now beginning at the age of 10. They are saying that parents who wait to talk to their kids about drinking and drugs until they are teens are too late; the kids are going over to each others houses and drinking well before they become teens, in some cases. I don't get the need to drink at all, but if kids have been doing it for eight years before they go off to college, why would that change?

Feel sorry for you...
I don't know what's up with college students these days!!
I sympathize...

You're making too much of a generalization because of 1 bad incident. Parents are NOT pushovers!

More than likely that kid was drunk and feeling destructive, whatever the case i feel for you

It's the first chance many young people have to "be on their own" ( although some else is probably footing the bill ) and they push the boundaries as much as they can. SPRING BREAK is another example of how some college kids go over the edge and engage in behavior which is actually dangerous as well as being stupid. Combine this with the more permissive attitude of college administrators ( and avoidance of the "in loco parentis" responsibility they used to assume ) and you have some kids going 'way over the line. Most are okay, and those of the crazies who survive eventually sober up and become responsible adults.

i've got to agree with you. i'm 31 and looking at going back to college. it's been 13 years. i'm looking at st. mary's college of california. it's hard to find a school these days that students specialize in something other than clubbing, drunkenness and being a primping showw off. ever been to austin, texas? prime example. i think it;s because many of these kids come from middel to upper middle class families where they have grown up having their parents take care of their every need and spoil them. there's a sense of entitlment. i've actually heard a few students say something to that regard. that's how they're raised sadly.

maybe ur husband crashed it and lied to you... or maybe this could a failed attempt on insurance fraud?

cuz he was drunk and probably stumbled into it..the guy probably didn't mean to do it on purpose either way that situation sucks....and drinking is a big part of the college experience l'm pretty sure thats at least one of the reasons most people can't wait for college is because they can drink once they are there and parents understand that it doesn't mean they are pushovers...i'm sorry about your situation but what do you expect at a college campus 100% sober people walking at night? lets get real