...Wow...

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=8734018&nav=3YeX

Hypothetically. Again.

You are driving down the street, and some dumbass kid smacks into the back of your van. People in the neighborhood see what's going on and beat your ass. The police have been ignoring kids riding dirt bikes, quads, whatever. I'd. Be. Fucking. Pissed. At the mob of people who just beat your ass? Obviously. Especially when some of the people they interviewed either thought it was funny or were too obviously dishonest to give a detailed account of what happened (when kids are driving around on dirt bikes and shit, something they might enjoy, you don't go to one of them for the truth when one of them fucks up. They're id centered and they will lie to keep that pleasure alive). But the cops? Oh, you'd better fucking believe I'd be pissed at them. It's basic psychology. If you reward an undesirable behavior, by allowing it, in this case, that behavior will continue. So I'd have a fucking field day with the cops. Maybe not sue them. Just openly five-on-two them. Make them look as impotent as possible (or in this case, they are).

Okay, maybe that much is extreme, but Jesus Tap-dancing Christ, they've been ignoring this shit. This was a matter of time before something like it happened.

This kid though...

How come parents of said fuck-ups always say their kids were good kids? If the kid really was on a stolen dirt bike, how does that constitute good behavior? What the hell would you consider to be bad behavior?

"Well there was this one time he cut his sister's tongue out. Boy did he get read the riot act for that!"

Oh, and how do you not know what the hell your kid is up to? HE WAS DOING IT IN BROAD DAY LIGHT! A witness said he slowed down by his house. That's right, he was biking around his own neighborhood in full view of his home. Oh, but why would he do that at an empty house? Oh, that's right, it wasn't empty and he didn't want you catching him go fast. Is that really where the line is drawn, going too fast? "Oh I don't know or care where or how you got it, just go slow." Really? Are you fucking blind? Deaf? Otherwise oblivious? Did you buy him a dirt bike? No? Then where the fuck did it come from? It's easy, sit him down and say, "Don't steal motorbikes. If you do, stop at the proper places and drive responsibly. If you don't do either of those, wear a helmet." Seems easy to me.

Did the kid deserve to die? Did he have it coming? Was he asking for it? Absolutely fucking not, but come on. Give your kid a better chance than that. Is the alternative really all that great? And are you just going to say, "oh it's just a bad thing that happened, horrible tragedy," or are you going to make something of it? Are you going to make things better? Or will you ignore the behavior, and keep the cycle going?

I feel like I'm on crazy pills.

Will