That's what we used America for before we started using Australia.
I wish there was still some place we could just send criminals like Australia. "You appear to be too dumb to live, therefore we sentence you to Australia. If you survive well then there was hope for you after-all, if not then no big loss"
Unfortunately, not only is this not new, it happens all over.
That's what we used America for before we started using Australia.
Punishment should be mandatory public caning or lashes, hard labor, and forced to join the military for discipline.
You seriously think that there is no way to teach your kids that throwing hard objects at people can cause serious harm and that it should not be done? Please tell me you never plan on having kids. This is behavior learned in the first few years of life. If you've fucked that up you have zero hope of your kid making it to 20 without being in jail at least once.I don't know, can you parent your kid to be smart enough not to partake in this when "all their friends" are doing it? Would your kid just not go, would they simply leave the group?
Their life is pretty much over before it begins, with a ~15 year sentence. What a cloud over their parents' heads.
You seriously think that there is no way to teach your kids that throwing hard objects at people can cause serious harm and that it should not be done? Please tell me you never plan on having kids. This is behavior learned in the first few years of life. If you've fucked that up you have zero hope of your kid making it to 20 without being in jail at least once.
I already said there is teaching right from wrong but there is no way to ensure they will comply. The point is there is no fool-proof way to parent, but you think there is. What a joke you are. Oh right, this is the internet.
There is a MASSIVE difference between doing something stupid and something fundamentally wrong like pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger, pushing someone down a flight of stairs, throwing fucking massive rocks at cars on the freeway. These kids were taught a lack of respect for others. Perhaps if they had actual parents, that 5 year old would sill have both of his. I say throw the book at them just as they did with rock and make sure the parents spend a little time behind bars too. Or are you trying to justify your lack of parenting skills?^ read the above edited. Rage or other uncontrolled factors has caused many people to be harmed. What does parenting have to do with controlling that? You can't control all variables, even kids who decide to forego logic when they're with their friends. How many kids do stupid things simply driving in a car with other kids?
The internet - full of people who think it's all just black and white.
There is a MASSIVE difference between doing something stupid and something fundamentally wrong like pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger, pushing someone down a flight of stairs, throwing fucking massive rocks at cars on the freeway. These kids were taught a lack of respect for others. Perhaps if they had actual parents, that 5 year old would sill have both of his. I say throw the book at them just as they did with rock and make sure the parents spend a little time behind bars too. Or are you trying to justify your lack of parenting skills?
Dropping rocks at cars is not the same thing as pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger. That's the whole basis of your argument and it's not even true. You could throw a rock at someone standing still and that'd inflict more harm by chance/percentage than doing it to cars despite the velocity disparity. How many rocks did they drop exactly? Was it even 1 each? Maybe they were just thrill-seeking and didn't think anything would happen other than a dented roof. Again, not remotely close to pulling the trigger of a gun pointed at someone.
What lack of parenting skills am I exhibiting exactly? Reach more.
Seeing as how a father ended up dead, yes throwing of a rock, is exactly like firing a gun at someone. If the kids took a tank and drive over the car and killed the man, how is it any different, they killed a man because they have no morals. Rock, gun, tank, Drano pick your weapon sane outcome.
Have you taken a look at this little rock you think might only dent the hood, its fucking massive. That "rock" has to weigh 8 pounds.
I'm not sure that id be able to throw that rock at 65 miles an hour at someone, but if I could I would be pretty sure that if it hit his head he would have a pretty small chance of living through it.
If your trying to justify this as some 'boys will be boys' stunt then ya, you have parenting issues. This was not a fight in the schoolyard, theres a difference.
You're looking at the result. Which again points to Internet monday-morning-quarterback factor. These boys when trying to decide right from wrong (or if they did that at all on this little adventure), did not likely feel they would kill someone. You're saying these same boys would willfully drive a tank over the guy's car while he's in it, or pour Drano down the man's throat KNOWING those things would kill him? Like I said before, reach more.
Seriously have you looked at the rock? Is there ANYWAY someone can look at that as think for a minute that it would only do a little damage?
This is not a fucking pebble, if it had been I would agree with you. This was a MASSIVE rock! The had to know it would do a shit ton more damage than just a dent.
Yes, and how many of the 5 boys threw them? It's perhaps 1 idiot because it would make him look cool. That's still not intent to murder someone, regardless of the chance that it would. It happened, they deserve whatever they get. And you would punish the parents because why again?
Couldn't care less what color they are, what would it matter?Would it be in bad taste to point out that these kids are all white?
It doesn't. If was a large heavy rock(I didn't read the article), then I have to agree with SNC about intent. Those kids had to be well aware that such a object dropped from an overpass could very well cause death and with possibly more then one person.Couldn't care less what color they are, what would it matter?
The report I heard said about 6 pounds, the car was traveling at about 70. This was no pebble, it was a chunk of concrete.It doesn't. If was a large heavy rock(I didn't read the article), then I have to agree with SNC about intent. Those kids had to be well aware that such a object dropped from an overpass could very well cause death and with possibly more then one person.
At those speeds a raw potato will go through a windshield and do some serious damage to a person and very likely kill.The report I heard said about 6 pounds, the car was traveling at about 70. This was no pebble, it was a chunk of concrete.