The gang of bored and idle youth

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I am wondering if my sentences are grammatically correct. Is it correct to say "idle youth"?

The gang of bored and idle youth set a car on fire. The flames spread over other vehicles, and soon about ten of them were in flames. As the firefighters arrived, the gang pelted them with stones and bottles.
 
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Bassim said:
I am wondering if my sentences are grammatically correct. Is it correct to say "idle youth"?

The gang of bored and idle youths set a car on fire. The flames spread [STRIKE]over[/STRIKE] to other vehicles (comma not necessary here) and soon about ten of them were in flames. As the firefighters arrived, the gang pelted them with stones and bottles.
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See above. The youths were probably bored but if they were setting fire to a car, they weren't (at that moment) idle.
 
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emsr2d2,

Thank you for your explanations, which are so useful to me. I apology for asking again. I am only wondering why a comma is not necessary after "vehicles." I am asking just to know in case I ever write similar sentence.
 
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