Don’t worry, you little cocksuckers. Neither you nor your parents are going to have to pay for the damage.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9013365.html
–cranky
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
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Don’t worry, you little cocksuckers. Neither you nor your parents are going to have to pay for the damage.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9013365.html
–cranky
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
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When I was young, there was no vandalism at all, ever. All the kids were too busy being altar boys.
Plus, we walked eleventy seven miles through snow banks to school every day.
Look, I’m a Young Offenders Act success story (believe or not) and even I get pissed when I hear of mindless shit like this. What the fuck are 13 and 15 year olds doing out at 10:30 at night? Hello?
Of course it’s disturbing.
Neither here nor there, but I just had an interaction with the restorative justice process. I can’t give particulars, but I’m happy to report that the process worked well, and got the young person and their family actively engaged in looking at the circumstances leading to the problem, and how to address those circumstances. Far better than simply propping the offender next to a lawyer and before a judge.
I’m the first to say that the devil is in the details for these things, and they could be go off in errant directions if not managed properly, but my experience so far is that it’s a good process.
Its a shame that this happened. There was a lot of effort put in to getting that playground. I hope they’re able to rebuild.
Cranky, the parents pay–one way or another.
The fire department and police just left my area after a young kid lit his house on fire this morning.
Speaking as someone who nearly died in a house fire and lost everything I’ve ever owned…I find it frustrating how people can not see the consequences of fire. It’s not fun, or funny and causes serious damage. I hope that something is done whereby these kids learn from what they did and never do something like this again.
Lighting fires is a frequent event here. I don’t know how many times I have had to run into the woods to put minor fires out. Last week, the kids had a gas can to aid them. I am not sure what to do, anymore. I had the fire chief come down and speak to the kids last year, but it only seemed to deter a few. In fact, this is not the first house fire in the last little while either.
These little bastards need to learn the consequences of their actions. At most they’re gonna get maybe a slap on the wrist and that’s it. The system is a fucking joke and makes it so NO ONE is responsible for their actions. These little shits knew exactly what it was they were doing and what would happen. They’ll get off scot-free with this and probably the next two or three stupid stunts they pull, then MAYBE when they’re 18 they might get in some trouble. It’s a bullshit system that needs a complete revamp.
hkm, a load of rock salt buckshot to the ass should work. or a nice big fucking club.
That’ll learn ’em.
I’m with Bousquet. I truly believe restorative justice is the best way to go in dealing with most young offenders. I’ve seen immense benefit to the victims, offenders, and the community with this process and I think it’s a far better alternative to our overloaded and dysfunctional conventional justice system. If not dealt with constructively, little criminals become big criminals, and will only end up being a greater burden to society in the future.
I never thought of rock salt. I sure deterred me from stealing corn = )
I think though, for the ones who do not benefit from restorative justice, some more effective recourse should be available. Also, if the current justice system is overloaded and dysfunctional, perhaps we should see to that as well.
Looks like they got one of these idiots and two more to come.