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Teens sentenced to pushups for damaging mailboxes

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    Police use unusual punishment method

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-- apps as -- you can just at a teenager behind police cruiser in this home video dropped to his hands and feet by the side of the road.

-- police spy an unusual punishment which some north Providence residents say doesn't fit the crime.

Appropriate community service citing these as part of -- -- -- their parents north Providence police tell us at five suspects mostly Cuban -- are suspected of attempting to analyze this mailbox.

And several others on spring -- out Friday morning.

The mailbox is still -- police say the suspects swung at it with a plow truck marker like this one.

The homeowner didn't press charges which he -- call police and police tell us within ten minutes -- patrol had tracked down a suspect's vehicle.

And the driver eighteen year old Richard -- he only -- fast.

Actually I had has obtained a police report responding patrolman Lewis Rivera explains how things went down from there saying quote.

While speaking to the juvenile I mentioned nation in -- and more physical activity keep them busy and away from travel.

I until then again the push -- positioning give me some pushups after approximately five repetitions I -- to stop and advise them to be careful next time.

Well rested and looking out his window capture that incident on Nvidia.

He feels -- -- police officers over what he calls -- teenage prank is a waste of tax dollars listen to him on the tape.

We did it take it to the mayor who says he's furious -- officers took the locked into their own hands.

It's might feel in this school to process.

Bring -- into the station.

You'd think the model that dad would've liked that they had to leave work to come to the police station.

You'd think -- would have been some discipline.

And the mayor says he's also angry from a financial standpoint.

He says the -- lucky -- of the boy's parents are threatening to CU.