Your mom is a nicer person than I am! The way my husband and I see it is that he STOLE the truck. We've had this discussion in our house because we have one teen that is impulsive and has tried to slip out when we were sleeping. We have already agreed that if she took our car to go out and have fun, then the cops would be called. Sometimes getting into serious trouble is all you need to wake someone up.

Funny story: one time my youngest daughter and my son were outside raking the lawn. One was to rake, the other was supposed to bag. Apparently my son wasn't working & making my daughter do everything. She shoved him, he put her in a headlock. Just as they were wrestling on the front lawn, a cop rolled by and threatend to cite them for domestic assult with weapons (one had a saw they were using to cut down branches to fit into the trash bag, the other had a hard rake. ) I talked the cop out of the charges and the kids were basically ready to pee their pants. They used to fight terribly, but never again after that incident.


Good luck with your brother and ask him to never ever put you in an uncomfortable position again.