Why teenage girls feel the need to mouth off when they are with their friends?

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Tonight hubby and the kids decided that they wanted to go out and have some family time for my birthday. My b/day was on Friday but because of my work schedule we had to postpone our plans and celebrate it by going out tonight instead. We got into the city and decided to go have a bite to eat and talk about our options of where we wanted to go to have some fun. We all had suggestions from a movie to bowling, laser tag and then there was my idea to go roller skating at one of the rinks. When I was a teenager I would go almost every weekend or try to with my friends. Just in the last five years or so they relocated that roller skating rink to one of the very bad areas in the city so when we got there I noticed the types of people that were going there as to when it was in the nice part of town and away from scum. My step-daughter was skating by this group of girls and one of those girls rolled her skate fast at my step-daughter and she tripped with her skates on and wiped out and they began laughing at her. My hubby went to help his daughter and went to find out what that girl's motive was to feel the need to pick on J. He asked he if she was going to say "sorry" for doing that and she said sorry but in a very smug way and you could tell she wasn't apologetic at all (in front of her group of friends) and had a very bad attitude towards him. I came back to our table and found out what happened. I noticed that the group of girls were sitting there and making fun of my step daughter so I told J to start laughing and just look like she was having a great time like we were before this all started. So we were laughing and it seemed to make the group of bullies fuel up with more anger. My son decided to go skating again and I went to follow him and one of the girls said to me "take a picture it lasts longer" so I asked her to repeat herself and she was telling me that we had a staring problem. I played around using some of my psychology techniques and ended up realizing that I wasn't going to waste my time so the girl that started this whole thing with J... came to that table and started cursing at me and I told her to watch her mouth. We ended up going to the manager and letting them know what was going on and the girl and her group got kicked out of the roller rink. They were prompt and did NOT tolerate bullying either! I have never had a problem with teenagers ever and this was my first and hopefully last encounter with it. These girls were way out of line and they were lucky that I wasn't their age because the mouths on them deserved either duck tape or a good slap! But all I can do is thank them for giving me a reason to talk here on Mylot.. they are actually helping me out financially haha Do you have any bad experienced like mine with a mouthy teenager? What happened and how did you handle it?