Less than 50%, actually, though I doubt that it's true that it only applies to the US. Children usually get a free pass because their meddling is ineffective or impermanent.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230515211304/https://toolhub.t...

And furthermore, they're too busy writing tickets to the beavers, who are doing the real damage.

Not on this forum. The industriousness of the hacker news kids is legend.

Right, we didn't get a ticket. But a handful of 13 year old boys can move some pretty big logs and trees.

It was made very clear that we were not to fuck with the creek or any other waterways, and it was serious business. We had to rip the dam apart and he told us to never do it again.

Fascinating data, thanks!