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Old 02-08-03 | 12:57 AM
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Originally posted by khuon
Maybe it's always been happening and has just come to media-light but I've been noticing more and more incidents like these. Last year around here, a teenage recovering from a football injury got beaten with his own crutches by some other teens. Around the same time, a man was beaten with a skateboard during a traffic argument. And of course there was the much publicised story about the teen pushing a pastor who was cycling. That case resulted in some push for new bills to address automobile-cyclist confrontations. A couple of years ago there was a gang of early to mid teens roving around Tacoma, WA assaulting people for no other reason than to alleviate boredom.
And this all happened in nice polite Seattle I think it is time for the courts to make people truly pay for there sins. The pastor case was so sorry those kids spent the whole time blaming each other no one showed remorse the drive got a harsher punishment the the kid who actually did it because the judge said something along the lines of he wouldn't learn anything from it and the parents were even worse. If I had done anything like that my folks would of left me in jail until the trial (of course dad is a clergyman) this is all to hard to believe sometimes.
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