Back-to-school Gen Alpha is already having to watch its back from hallway menaces—literally. Teenagers are unlooping the zipper pulls on peers’ Nike Elite backpacks, which retail for $87, stealing them for their own collections or reselling them back to theft victims at lofty prices.
The logic behind the prank is perhaps predictable for a generation whose frontal lobes are not yet developed: “It’s fun to steal,” one TikTok commenter said.
