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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:52 AM Original message |
Not so 'hilarious': Dumping ice water on a 90-year-old |
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npincus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. let me guess: he grows up to be a Repblican president |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm sorry, I don't see where the boy should be certified as an adult. |
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RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. How does this "boy" know whether or not the woman has some kind of medical |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
79. In Cloquet the nursing homes are intensive care units so most people |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:06 AM Original message |
Yes... sentence them all as juveniles to thousands of hours |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
8. A hundred icy showers for this nasty youth. nt |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. probably because he is 16 and not 12. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
80. 16 years old is old enough to know right from wrong. I had my first |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I disagree |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
84. good |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I don't have a problem with it. |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Yes, it's done for murderers all the time. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:16 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. He did it not once, THREE times. |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Just to clear this up... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:25 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. You think someone who throws ice cold water on a nonegenarian not once, but three times, |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:00 PM Response to Reply #21 |
48. Please tell me, Kagemusha, how you feel about this: |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #48 |
55. I'm sorry, how I feel isn't relevant to this issue at all. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:52 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. 122 of the attacks were non-lethal, just as the attack against the 92-yr-old nursing home patient. |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:57 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. What are you asking me for, to demand a RICO prosecution? |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 03:04 PM Response to Reply #62 |
64. Who is suggesting that the assault should be prosecuted as if it is murder? |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:35 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. That was re: we certify murdering 14 year olds as adults all the time. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:47 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. It has everything to do w/the statistics of 16 to 19-yr-olds assaulting older people for kicks. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 08:48 PM Response to Reply #64 |
70. Yanno, Sapphire Blue, I think a whole lot of people can't seem to think beyond themselves.... |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:33 PM Response to Reply #55 |
87. oh "the good luck" theory of morality |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #87 |
89. So you want him taken down by lethal injection? |
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WorldResident (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
40. Your position is reasonable |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
51. I agree with you....he should not be tried as an adult |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 08:45 PM Response to Reply #51 |
69. a "healthy" adult doesn't need to have ice wqter dumped on them, either!! |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. If it were just one time, maybe, but he returned and did it again |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
49. And all the other kids laughed because ... |
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WorldResident (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
38. The biggest consequence of this will be the boy will get to go to the adult prison |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:00 PM Response to Reply #38 |
50. And he gets an adult education in an adult prison. n/t |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #38 |
86. He will probably spend his sentence in Carlton County Jail a small |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Disagree |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:35 PM Response to Reply #42 |
88. He made his own name public when he bragged to his fellow |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
54. I don't know why they can certify a kid as an adult for crimes, but not for voting. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:24 PM Response to Reply #54 |
74. You read my mind |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
73. IMO I have a problem with trying juveniles as adults because they don't have adult rights |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
94. I believe it was appropriate. |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. If it was my mother that punk wouldn't be able to talk right now. |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
43. Same here - I have five brothers who would kick his punk-ass up |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
4. Hmmmmm, watched one too many episodes of Jackass, maybe. nt |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Has any episode of Jackass physically harmed someone? |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. All the time. Some kid lit fireworks out of his butt because of that show. |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. And he's probably a poster on free republic right now. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Or maybe he did it because he was an idiot |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:48 AM Response to Reply #23 |
45. LOL. Good point. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
6. What a self-centered brute, to be delighting in the pain of another person like that. |
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joeunderdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 08:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
71. I don't (necessarily) think he was laughing at percieved pain. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:10 PM Response to Reply #71 |
78. Even if tried as an adult a first offense |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
10. Can you remember back to when you were 16? I would NEVER think |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Nor Would Any Sane Person |
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Scout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. same here ... even as a teenager i didn't think this kind of stuff was acceptable. n/t |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
12. My 93 year old uncle was buried over the weekend. He |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
24. I'm so sorry to hear about your uncle. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Thank for the kind words. He was a |
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all.of.me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
75. i am sorry about your uncle. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #75 |
90. Thank you. I appreciate your expression of sympathy. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:11 AM Original message |
Future Psychopaths Of America |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
15. Thus another fad is born. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
25. How come the nursing home kept letting him back in? |
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mtnester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:08 PM Response to Reply #25 |
53. That is ONE of the 64 thousand dollar questions in my mind |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
68. There are not guards at most doors in nursing homes |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
26. Throwing cold water on somebody is "felony stalking"? |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Actually going back and doing it 3 times, separated by over a month each time |
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MousePlayingDaffodil (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Maybe we have one-quarter of all the world's prisoners . . . |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #29 |
76. No, we have one-quarter of the world's prisoners... |
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Betty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:49 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. so what should his penalty be? |
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Poiuyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:53 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I'm surprised that he wasn't charged with assault and battery |
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demrabble (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Intentional. Repeated. Unrepentant. |
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WorldResident (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:27 AM Response to Reply #26 |
41. Drug violations, not because of felony stalking and/or assault |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 01:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
60. Maybe because he sought out the same individual to assault 3 times? |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #26 |
92. He's a fucking little puke |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #26 |
95. Yes, actually, it is. |
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demrabble (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
32. Where Were The Kids' Parents? |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:05 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. If I had heard this discussion at school |
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demrabble (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:13 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Of Course You Would. |
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Caoimhe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
34. This really does sound like a young George W. Bush |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
36. This infuriates me on so many levels. |
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liberal renegade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:51 PM Response to Reply #36 |
93. you and me both.. |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
44. 16 years old and doesn't know any better? What a total moran |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
46. Felony stalking? What about ASSAULT?? |
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jdadd (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
47. My mother is 92 years old.... |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. Me too. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
56. What the ****? Where was the police in all this? |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 03:00 PM Response to Reply #56 |
63. I know. And the article says that staff at the nursing home witnessed the earlier incidents |
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Cabcere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
57. What a little twit. |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
59. That story just makes me feel sick in my soul |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
61. The kid is just plain sadistic. Charge him as an adult so |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
66. He's a sociopath |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
72. George Allen (Macaca's father) got an ice water bath from his team as part of a celebration |
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all.of.me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
77. where are his parents?!?! |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
81. try the little shit as an adult so |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
82. some teens need good old fashioned beatings to knock snome sense into them |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:29 PM Response to Reply #82 |
83. or just knock the living shit OUT of them |
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Hunky Dunky (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
85. Soak the little bastard's balls in ice water for 5 days |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
91. Our society is sick |
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