i was also on occasion a vandal when i was young and dumb,,,, there said that too.
Not really targeted vandalism, but rather poor choices, so for instance that new knife why not testing it on a tree somewhere instead of the junglegym on the local playground. ASO
And for a while it was popular collecting ( stealing ) hub caps, so one of the guys got busted, he got his ass kicked and was locked in a garage overnight, and the next morning the guy caller my friends father and he god there kicked his sons as too and dragged him home.
Ever since that day that classmate of mine was pretty much a nice little boy
so i figure he learned his lesson at the age of 12, me i only caught up some 10+ years later, but then i dident need no outside help to see the error of my ways.
I was also once accused of shooting at the animals ( rabbits ) on the playground with bow and arrow, that was not true we kids shot at eachother, so aside for trowing a hen in a little puddle of water to see if it could swim i have never been cruel to any animal.
Animal cruelty in my book are pretty low life.
I do shoot rats with my airgun, but other than those i would not shoot at anything unless i was going to eat it ( humans not included, but i would only shoot human acting like rats or parasites )