Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: So who makes up the RW trolls here? [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)I'm more of the old codger bike brigade. Shame my fellow codger had to shoot the kids. Makes one wonder what was so valuable. I remember when I was a bobby, I came across this guy, in his early twenties, lying in the street bleeding and crying. He'd been beaten up and had his bike stolen by a gang of about 10 kids, led by a ten year old girl. He was embarrassed, but I told him not to be. I knew who they were, went to their house (they were all siblings and cousins), where the bike was already being repainted. These kids terrorized the neighborhood and the parents (2 brothers and their constantly pregnant wives), sat at home drinking beer and slapping the kids if the bikes were inferior. Very Dickensian. As each kid reached the age of 14 he/she went to a juvenile correctional center. It was like a production line of bikes and kids. At the time they had 30 kids between the 2 brothers. The eldest was 16 and he was the only honest one among the lot. One day we pulled his body from the river Mersey. His father went to the pub that night to celebrate "one less mouth to feed".
I lost a lot of faith in humanity that day. Fortunately, I have regained a good deal of it.
No, I don't pat them down. That would be getting into the latex weird stuff.