They’ve continually harassed the uptight, “gifted” boarding school students who, they think, think they are so much better than the two of them, who are locals of Snow Valley. They’re also racist.
One time, they cornered Synch and beat him up within an inch of his life, both because he was a boarding school student and because he was African American. They left him for dead, having panicked at just how badly they beat him, but Synch was discovered and taken to the hospital.