Strip 718 -- First Seen: 2011-06-06
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Panel 1
Room full of people. There's a long bench along one wall upon which sit our six juvenile delinquents. The four large men in uniform-like clothing with a patch on their left breasts stand nearby, keeping an eye on them. Nearby, a matronly woman similarly attired, holding an electronic tablet, is talking to a couple of ordinary Cerereans, man and woman.
Caption: The 'bum' and the other men were part of a Ceres Merchant's Association sting operation set up to deal with a spate of recent muggings around the port.
Caption: The boys were a fortuitous collar.

Panel 2
One of the kids with the gang, with his parents, at home. The father is reading his son the riot act; the son looks ashamed of himself.
Caption: Most of the boys had never been in trouble.
Caption: They were turned over to their parents, who dispensed informal justice at home.

Panel 3
Scene at an outdoor cafe in downtown Ceres City: Three teenagers, two of them girls, are in front of a display being shown on a portable computer (make the screen a 21-inch diagonal hologram over the flat box that is mostly keyboard), set up on one of the cafe tables. But instead of looking at the display they are pointing and laughing at two of the 'Pissers Wild' kids (but not the one in the previous panel), who is walking away looking humiliated.
Caption: The CMA also released surveillance videos of the boys 'in action.'
Caption: Someone posted the video to YouTube and it went viral. The boys became the laughingstock of the Solar System.

Panel 4
Small panel, medium close-up on Jim, who still has his 'street' attitude on.
Caption: Jim, however, presented a special problem.