Busted!

[Brian Ellis]

Merriam-Webster has the rotten wood definition but not the bread, as also does Collins, but without the US context. Collins puts it earlier than Oxford in this sense (16th c), so it is more likely to be of English origin, and gives an additional definition related to the wood as tinder, the touchpaper used for igniting fireworks.

[Dr Mordrid]

Those "US/N. American" terms for wood and bread might be used somewhere, but not here. Such wood is called "dry rot" and the only combination of punk and bread I'm aware of is a band from Florida called Whole Wheat Bread.

[Evildead666]

Nicely pointed out Brian.
I had the same thought, but my execution would have been a lot lot worse

[Brian Ellis]

Another example of the common language that separates us. Oxford:

L17.
[Origin uncertain: perh. rel. to FUNK noun1, SPUNK noun. Perh. also rel. to PUNK noun1 in some senses.]

A. noun.

I. 1. Soft dry crumbly wood, rotted by fungal attack, esp. used for tinder; any of several bracket fungi also so used. Cf. TOUCHWOOD 1, 2. Orig. US. L17.

b. = AMADOU. US. M19.

2. Something worthless; foolish talk; nonsense, rubbish. Chiefly US colloq. M19.

3. Bread. US slang. L19.

4. Chinese incense; joss-sticks. US. L19.

5. a. A passive male homosexual, a catamite. US slang. E20.

b. A person of no account, a worthless fellow; a young hooligan or petty criminal. Chiefly N. Amer. colloq. E20.

c. Esp. in show business: a youth, a novice; a young circus animal. US slang. E20.

II. 6. Punk rock; the subculture or style associated with this. Also, a punk rocker; a person who adopts or typifies a punk style. L20.

B. adjective.

1. Worthless, bad, poor in quality, disappointing; nonsensical. Chiefly US colloq. L19.

2. Of timber: decayed, rotten. US. E20.

3. Designating or pertaining to a loud fast-moving form of rock music with crude and aggressive effects; characteristic of the subculture or style associated with this, esp. as distinguished by the wearing of leather ornamented with zips and chains and brightly dyed hair dressed in spikes. L20.

Comb. & special collocations: punk chic a fashionable style of design reflecting unconventional aspects of punk rock; punk rocker a player or admirer of punk rock.

• punker noun (colloq.) a punk rocker L20.
• punkette noun (colloq.) a young female punk rocker L20.
• punkish adjective characteristic of or like a punk rocker, somewhat punk L20.

[Dr Mordrid]

How can you know if you're not around then?

By the blood on the front entryway. They broke the door jamb defeating the lock plate (old house - the new one has a steel door and frame), but in trying to remove the chain the perp stuck his arm through the opening and..... They found the creep at the local ER getting >100 stitches in his forearm.

Your youth betrays you regarding what 'punk' means. That's down the definition list.
My use highlighted

punk
\ˈpəŋk\
noun or adjective

1: a prostitue (archaic)

2: nonsense, foolishness

3: beginner, novice, worthless. especially;
a: a young man
b: a young gangster, hoodlum, or ruffian
c: (slang) a young man used as a homosexual partner, especially in a prison

4: punk rock - a music style originating in the late 1970's
a: a punk rock musician
b: one who affects punk styles

[Nowhere]

How can you know if you're not around then?

PS. And please, "punks" is not appriopriate IMHO People who could be appriopriatelly described that way are rather no problematic (where it counts; and at least here; which doesn't protect them from beeing buggered for no sensible reason...)

[Dr Mordrid]

If someone had done that at our house Spike would have eaten them . No if, and or maybe about it. Nice, friendly dog unless we aren't home then he becomes Cujo.

[KRSESQ]

Some good watch-dogs there.

One of the intruders was reportedly eating cheese from the woman's fridge while he robbed the place. As one pundit said, it will probably be his last good meal for a while.

Kevin

[Wulfman]

at least they were nice to the cat.

mfg
wulfman

[Dr Mordrid]

So these two punks break into the house of a woman in Florida. What the morons don't know is that she has a remote motion activated video feed to her office computer because of previous burglaries. She sees them in the house & calls the cops. About half way through they realize they have visitors.

SmokingGun article.....

YouTube: surveillance video released by cops....

911 call....