I am well over 20, I have a job, I don't do said job at 1am and you're missing the point. The value doesn't matter. Wrong is wrong, and I doubt FTC will ever learn that without a really ugly lesson. I'm not saying I'm lilly white either. When I was a little kid, my parents busted me stealing a handful of marbles. Retail value, maybe $1. My parents drove me back to the store, returned the items AND paid for them, made me apologize to the manager in person and again in a written letter and I lost my allowance for a month. Harsh? Yes, but I haven't stolen anything since! That lesson was seered into my mind at a very young age. Had my parents said "you can keep them, but don't do it again, okay?", my value system would be vastly different today. Honestly the sad part is that FTC's parents aren't making the punishment 10x worse than the authorities. Parenting is best left to parents. Too bad too many of them choose not to succeed at the most important task they'll ever do!

-Paul