So start licensing teenage boys?

Having passed an abandoned factory this A.M. that is beginning to have its windows broken, I submit the following:

There are ordinances in many municipalities that mandate that the owners of such abandoned buildings, board-up the windows to prevent vandals from breaking them and creating an eyesore and degradation to the value of the building.

However, that puts the financial burden on the victim, not the perpetrator(s), which should be contrary to the spirit of the law.

The "perpetrators" most often are groups boys( two or more, a single youth usually does not vandalize nor do most girls, even in groups.) Inasmuch as any person under the age of majority (18 in most cases), they are by custom, not endowed with full rights as citizens and therefore restricting their ability to be at large in groups (two or more),sans parental supervision would seem to be a legitimate control measure. Such a restriction could be in the form of three days of jail time for those boys caught on foot, on public property (streets, etc.) in groups.

Also, considering that the mandatory licensing of dogs was a measure to create a fund from which compensation for those who had livestock killed by roving dogs, set a custom and precedent, perhaps a tax to maintain such a fund should be assessed against the parents of boys to compensate building owners for their losses due to vandalism.

Or anticipating an outcry from the parents of teenage boys especially mothers, I preemptively say, "keep your little bastards at home and under control."