I just got through reading a story about some kids in my home area of the country that was caught spray-painting the back of a school during a rivalry week of football.
Okay #1, I do know vandalism of this nature is illegal and should not be condoned and I do not condone it. HOWEVER!!!!!! I do know every class has done something to the other school across this country and had fun doing it without hurting a soul! I also know it isn’t a felony or a hate crime. Its firkin school rivalry and pride at work.
Some proposed solutions: Banning the teams from playing each other ever again? Suspending this game due to escalating vandalism? (I didn’t know spray painting we’re #1 was escalating vandalism.) Press charges against them for felony destruction of property?
What part of this story did I not hear? How much is the Police department keeping from us? Is there a serial killer associated with the crime? Did they find Hoffa under the football field? Maybe one of them has new information about the Lindbergh kidnapping. No I got it, one of them MUST have information about Joseph Manglia. Has to be it.
Give me a break! They actually did a lab test on the damn paint and traced it back to a specific Wal-mart, (I knew a Wal-mart would be involved. That satanic retailer is behind everything. But I digress again!) then obtained video of every person buying paint and uncovered some teens purchasing paint cans. Very circumstantial but I bet if they can get the epithelial off of the paint fragments and connect it to the boys hands and fingerprints that would tie it up more. And what would cinch this case for the DA all nice and tight would be determining the lingering form of Axe body spray left on the premises by the alleged would-be Da Vinci’s once and for all: Thus sealing the coffin and nailing with facts how the teens went about their dastardly destructive and subversive behavior which undoubtedly has sank our wonderful and virgin society to the depths of the cesspool that is now criminal.
PLEASE!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! You know there are a few murders in that area that could use this type of direction and attention!!!!! Think we can get on that some time soon!!!!!!!!! HUH!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!! External School Vandalism during a rivalry week???!!!!!??? REALLY!!!! This is out attention!!!!!!
We stood by and watched a woman be murdered on TV in Iran and didn’t even impose a sanction on the place. We let genocide occur daily in the Congo and say nothing! We donate, sometimes some of us do anyway, our spare change to the people collecting for good causes in the street but most of the time even roll our windows up and ignore them instead of helping. But our noble efforts and devotion is deserved of this endeavor. BRING THESE TEENAGE FOOTBALLERS TO JUSTIVCE AND MAKE SURE THEY KNOW YOU CANT PAINT OUR SCHOOLS LIKE THAT!!!! YOU CANT DO THAT AND GET AWAY With it!!!
But you can become the leader of a small faction of idiots that want to wipe out a race and we won’t bother you for a while until the right people get involved or it becomes something the WORLD says we should intervene for.
STUPID!!!!!!!!
I know I blow this out a bit but really. I know I took part in silliness of this nature as did most of the cops involved in the investigation BECAUSE IWENT TO SCHOOL WITH SOME OF THE MORONS!!!!!!!!! THEY HELD THE DAMN CANS WITH ME AND THEY ALSO USED THE BAG OF LIE THAT WE PUTON THE FIELD TO BURN OUR FLAG INTO THE FOOTBALL FIELD SO IT WAS THERE ALL SEASON! But they want to crucify these guys because the Sadducees and Pharisees are hurling stones and threatening to call Caesar!
Now I feel like Eddie Izzard. Breathe! K. There you have it.
Catch the kids with normal effort not the cinematic efforts of CSI: MIAMI. And when you do, charge them with very low-level vandalism charges. Make them clean it up and do some public service LIKE YOU HAD TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!! And be done. Trust me, this is not the premonition of a group of Ted Bundy’s that need to be stopped now before they get out of sorts.
Good lord. No wonder our world is so screwed up. I bet our parents wouldn’t have turned it over to us if they knew we were going to get this stupid.
Soap box vacant. Diatribe over. Commence milling around and discussing now. Thank you!
You know what came to mind when you told me this story...?
ReplyDeleteThat's just Farragut.
I know that's stupid...but that's the mentality, really. You *dare* paint on OUR school? The parents probably pressured the police to make it such a big deal. I do have to laugh that they tested the paint tho. They were probably further offended that it wasn't from a local Sherwyn-Williams.
I think it's ridiculous for such a stupid prank (and yes, we had some of our own pranks back in the day...jello in the pool, salting a field to make letters "SUCKoia", kidnapping the mascot...most were harmless crap) to occur, especially one that's going to cost to clean up. But yes, the kids should do some hard labor to make sure that doesn't stay on their record...
Maybe the kids involved had records? Maybe they were "known offenders" and that's why this a little more harsh? Maybe it was planned for weeks and weeks in advance and the pre-meditation ticked off the cops? I'm guessing we don't know the entire story...but I still say...
"That's Farragut for you..."