"Fire In The Hole" is the latest craze with teenagers.  They post video on YouTube of themselves
throwing soft drinks onto the fast-food worker who delivers their drive-through order, while they yell "Fire in the hole."

The part I love about this story, is that one victim tracked down the culprits who attacked her.  She found out that there was a video and it was posted on YouTube.  She tracked the YouTube video to the MySpace accounts and befriended the owners.  She tracked down one of the boys' mother who provided their names.  She got them charged.

Here is a fast-food worker doing the job of the police.  I will grant you that the police have bigger fish to fry rather than teen-age pranks.  This victim did the job that the police should have done.

I am also impressed with the sentence.  The charges will be dropped once the teens have paid a cleaning fee to the restaurant, written letters of apology, done 100 hours of community service and made a video of apology showing them "facedown and handcuffed on the hood of a car."

I am also impressed with the mother who provided their names instead of the usual, "not my son, he's had a hard life, I will take care of it."

The victim of this story is my heroine.  She sought justice when the police were too busy.  She didn't give up when it was all left up to her.  She pursued justice within the framework of the law.  Her basic can-do attitude won.  Her self-esteem is evident in her judgment of the incident: "I am a human being.  I am not an object to be mistreated.  I deserve the respect everyone else does."