So... this is disgusting...
Sep. 13th, 2010 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalI had a nice day of playing "what the fuck is wrong with humanity."
I was at Wal-mart in the school supplies aisle and there was this little boy (maybe 5 or 6) looking around. He turned around with a "Mom?" and then looked in the opposite direction. "Mom?" The aisle was divided by these big, tall displays so he was circling them and looking around the endcaps. Then he started yelling, "Mom?! Mom?!" and then "MOM?! MOM!!" and I headed over with my cart to 1-keep an eye on him and 2-ask him if I could help him find his mother when his sister arrived. She was on the other side of a display and called out to him. He went one way (still calling for his mom) when she went the other. Finally they found each other and then his mother appeared at the end of the aisle. "Don't scare me like that again!" said the little boy. His mother replied, "That's what you get for wandering off."
Okay, sure, maybe the kid has a habit of wandering and needed to be taught a lesson, but with all the abductions that happen and the fact that the boy was smart enough to call out loudly to his mom the whole time to let us know he was lost, seriously, THAT'S what she tells him? Not even a hug to make sure the kid is okay and not shaken up? Okay, I don't have kids (and at this rate, I never will) but if my kid told me he was scared, that wouldn't be the thing I'd say to him. At least make sure the boy's all right before you jump into the moral of the story.
And then there's my old neighborhood--the one I lived in for 20 years, where I walked to school, where I learned to ride a bike, where I grew up, where I returned at the end of college. Yeah. Last night some idiot who lived 3 houses away from my childhood home went one street over to a guy's house, stormed in, tied him & his girlfriend up, and then shot the guy dead. Why? Because the idiot didn't like the speed bump the guy helped lead the initiative to get installed on a busy street where elementary school kids cross to go to school or wait for the middle school/high school buses. Un-friggin-believable. Apparently several people in the neighborhood hated the new speed bump and would honk whenever passing the poor guy's house. There was a trial over the matter set for Thursday, I think, but this idiot didn't want the law to decide the fate of the speed bump. And now he's a murderer. I can't even make sense of how completely horrible and blizzard it is. Guy gets shot at his own home over trying to make the neighborhood a little safer. What is this world coming to?
I was at Wal-mart in the school supplies aisle and there was this little boy (maybe 5 or 6) looking around. He turned around with a "Mom?" and then looked in the opposite direction. "Mom?" The aisle was divided by these big, tall displays so he was circling them and looking around the endcaps. Then he started yelling, "Mom?! Mom?!" and then "MOM?! MOM!!" and I headed over with my cart to 1-keep an eye on him and 2-ask him if I could help him find his mother when his sister arrived. She was on the other side of a display and called out to him. He went one way (still calling for his mom) when she went the other. Finally they found each other and then his mother appeared at the end of the aisle. "Don't scare me like that again!" said the little boy. His mother replied, "That's what you get for wandering off."
Okay, sure, maybe the kid has a habit of wandering and needed to be taught a lesson, but with all the abductions that happen and the fact that the boy was smart enough to call out loudly to his mom the whole time to let us know he was lost, seriously, THAT'S what she tells him? Not even a hug to make sure the kid is okay and not shaken up? Okay, I don't have kids (and at this rate, I never will) but if my kid told me he was scared, that wouldn't be the thing I'd say to him. At least make sure the boy's all right before you jump into the moral of the story.
And then there's my old neighborhood--the one I lived in for 20 years, where I walked to school, where I learned to ride a bike, where I grew up, where I returned at the end of college. Yeah. Last night some idiot who lived 3 houses away from my childhood home went one street over to a guy's house, stormed in, tied him & his girlfriend up, and then shot the guy dead. Why? Because the idiot didn't like the speed bump the guy helped lead the initiative to get installed on a busy street where elementary school kids cross to go to school or wait for the middle school/high school buses. Un-friggin-believable. Apparently several people in the neighborhood hated the new speed bump and would honk whenever passing the poor guy's house. There was a trial over the matter set for Thursday, I think, but this idiot didn't want the law to decide the fate of the speed bump. And now he's a murderer. I can't even make sense of how completely horrible and blizzard it is. Guy gets shot at his own home over trying to make the neighborhood a little safer. What is this world coming to?
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Date: 2010-09-14 03:15 am (UTC)1) Mom was probably angry because she was scared.
2) Unless Mom and Dad had a really bitter divorce and Dad is sneaking around trying to get his kid back, the probability of him being kidnapped while lost in Wal-Mart for five minutes is probably lower than the probability of him being killed in a car accident on the way home. Which isn't to say you should let tiny children wander all over the store, just that people should keep perspective on major vs miniscule risks.
The psycho double murder, yeah, that's just plain awful.
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Date: 2010-09-14 03:23 am (UTC)2- This is true. The likelihood of an abduction is pretty small, but either way the kid was shaken up and looking for a little reassurance and didn't get it.
The psycho double murder, yeah, that's just plain awful.
I think the murderer fled after killing the guy. The girlfriend wasn't killed, thank goodness, just tied up. So just one murder, though that's bad enough.
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Date: 2010-09-14 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 09:05 pm (UTC)When the guard found out why, though, he looked him over and said "You're lucky that's all she did."