Punish the parents?

Following on from the dog owner link - should parents be held accountable for their kids actions?

Bored waiting for the missus to bring me my tea so I have decided to resurrect a thread from long ago. Not many threads are unfortunate enough to get hardly any views and no comments so I have nominated this one to go back to the top of the list. Why? Because I'm bored and I can.............

Mr & Mrs Magoo would be quaking in their boots.

In some cases I'd say yes.

But others no.

So who knows.