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Revere fire captain charged with applying golf club to 11-year-olds on Halloween
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stand your ground!
This is a bizarre story fit for Halloween. Whose telling the truth and who's lying should be determined but my guess this case will never go to court. On one hand you have a father claim he came to the defense of his wife and child on his property against a pack of wilding teens and on the other side you have a father claim innocent children trick or treating were attacked by Jason with a golf club.
Innocent children
After seeing and hearing the father of one of those "innocent children" on the news yesterday, I'm definitely going with the firefighter's story.
Did we watch the same news report?
In the report I saw, the father of the kid said only two things:
1: "They were just out trick or treating,"
2: "They didn't do [nothing]... there were no reports of rocks being thrown, nothing like that. He just attacked them."
Was the father of one of
Was the father of one of those kids present at the scene? Did he see what happened first-hand? No? Then his word is worth nothing.
Awwwwwwww....did they run
Awwwwwwww....did they run home to mommy??? Where's daddyyyy?
Where's daddy?
Daddy was interviewed in the linked news story. You really wanna go there?
I'm siding with the dad...
Modern teens are vicious and out of control. No doubt they were looking for trouble. And they found it. Oops!
Hey You
Back on the pile over here!
We won't mention how crime is way down since the baby-boomers were teens, or how many more kids graduate high school now ... no challenges here!
Kids these days
Get off my lawn!
Revere Fire Captain
Why use his job title and not his name?? If he were a DPW worker would the headline be "Revere DPW worker charged with... "? I highly doubt it. Seems like a biased headline.
This mans problem shouldn't become Revere Fires problem. Just because his job is as a firefighter doesn't mean he is different from anyone else off duty.
Actually, it does matter
Rightly or wrongly, we hold public-safety officials to a higher standard of accountability. This guy's a captain (who may very well turn out to be innocent, those of us who weren't there have only he said/he said conflicting statements to go on).
Wait
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you had a headline of "Boston DPW worker charged" recently?
Egged lately?
The egg thrown at me (missed my head by a foot) by a pack of rabid older teens and younger 20s convinced me Halloween is too much like the movies today. Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, even Vincent Price 2 stepping with Boris Karloff and Nosferatu waltzing with Bela Lugosi are preferable to the rabid minded creatures that prowl the streets. The horror movies of yesteryear were fun in their fright. But now it's about how much blood and how many intestines can be thrown at the audience's eyes.
Since we are human beings and so not much smarter than the average monkey, actually tending to follow a monkey see monkey do way of life, I wonder whether the validation of mayhem seen in movies and tv is exacerbates the already existing need of adolescents (i.e., too many young adults under 30) to "push the boundaries."
Playing the role of the jackass whether in teens or 20s is nothing new. But when the role of jackass starts to create mass havoc?
Ah but movies, television and of course gore filled video games have no effect on how we see each other, right?
Scott Lively is that you?
Scott Lively is that you?
A, hem..
You, personally, may not be smarter than the average monkey but those of us that are take umbrage at your comment.
And the monkeys were heard to say "Take this banana and..."
Taking umbrage? How umbragious!
Took umbrage? Well give it back!
Doesn't change the premise. Movies and television are entertainment but they also teach what is acceptable or unacceptable behavior. We can pretend to be above the influences of the images around us but that is just posturing. The best advertisers know that. The best political campaign managers know that.
Now anyone who can use the term umbrage is perhaps smarter than the average bear and so is immune to the effects of images.
But the success of advertising (Google and YouTube, and newspapers would not exist if advertising didn't work) to influence people to make positive or negative associations with other things via moving and still images proves that just a 20 second advertisement can persuade a person to believe that a fast sporty car will make their lives better.
Read a book called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television."
It is funny how criticizing extreme violence in movies can elicit an insulting response. Touch meet nerve.
But the monkeys were heard to say...? Planet of the Apes movies are science fiction, not documentaries of the future.
Hey! There you are!
I wondered where all my usual customers went! We need more ethnic stereotypes and teen boy hating over here ... our viagra has run dry!