Puzzling, Raging High School Hormones

Story #1 So the fam and I went to The Gateway tonight. There is a group of high school kids walking. One of them has his collar flipped up (stupid trend) and a football helmet on. So another group of similarly dressed guys walks by...no helmet in this group though. They make a comment about the helpmet. The helmet group bites right back. The other group yells something else. A fight could have developed. Another group of guys started egging the other two on. So... the kid wears a helpmet for attention. He gets the attention. And them wants to fight the people who gave it to him? How primal and territorial of him.
Story #2 "Conformity" and I went to see Pirates at Jordan Landing. A huge group of kids comes out of the theater. I guess they had been doing the milk challenge...where you try to drink a gallon of milk in an hour. The kid pukes all over the parking lot while his friends laugh. Interesting use of energy...to drink an obscene amount of milk in a short time...in order to...???????
Were we ever this stupid?