JUST IN FUN

This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage--which added up to $5,000 in a five-page, single-spaced report--was so extensive that school had to be let out for the day. The three boys, traced through some model airplanes they had stolen from the school, are from decent but cramped homes. Questioned by police, they said that they were just having a little fun.

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