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[QUOTE="OrangeTarheel, post: 2075164, member: 887"]
As a personal example from when I was at the 'cuse ... I knew someone who came from poor circumstances in NYC.  They never wanted to go home for the holiday but the university would not let them stay.  When they were home they would get lonely, I used to get phone calls from them at pay phones late at night in the south Bronx.  As our president would Tweet, BAD!

This person was on a full ride scholarship and had a job through the university.  Free housing, no tuition plus meal plan an walking around cash.  Guess who was stealing something every week?  Sometimes it was stuff they could use for class but sometimes it wasn't -- never was it about need.

I don't know if that person and these two young men are similar in any way ... but I do know that poverty and bad influences (friends, family, etc.) can make for a culture that I don't understand.  To this day I don't know why this person stole.  I like to think that they felt owed something and were making a statement that they were going to get theirs regardless of the hand they were dealt.  That was, to me, the best case scenario.  As an adult I think that analysis assumed a lot ... it is more truthful to say I won't ever understand what it is to grow up truly impoverished.
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