Consquences bitter pill

[Tags: shooting, IHOP, SUV, pot, WaPo,
teen]

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Yes, the associated link to the WaPo editorial is identified as "Senseless Death in Virginia" - yet, it seems it's all the Police/Security Guards fault? It's all very tragic and my thorazine supplies are low (kidding - they're not low at all).

After reading the editorial, it seems these teens thought to pull a fast one after a bender,and skip on a restaurant bill. No biggie right? I mean, it's a common college prank - except that this time, they had an off-duty cop who moolights as an armed guard there. According to that guard, the teens were in an SUV and apparently the SUV was pointed straight at him and closing fast. According to Virginia law, police can in fact fire at a moving vehicle if that police officer feels their life is in danger by said vehicle. So that's exactly what happened.


Duhh...drunk and stoned no good? Duhhh... Me like pancake!

Now the driver of that SUV (see idiot picture above) was:
a.) intoxicated
and
b.) full of weed (the mary-jane buding kind)

And as such, was arrested after the shooting. Now the kid who was with that driver got shot by the cop/guard and was killed. WaPo puts that cop/guard on trial in their little poison editorial asking poignant questions about the bullet holes being in the side of the vehicle.

It is a bitter pill to find out actions have consequences isn't it? Yes a harmless prank on the restaurant turned into a fatal shooting. A gung ho cop/guard felt threatened by a 2-ton SUV barreling down on him (the nerve!) and felt he had to fire at it. Reasonable? Sure it is.



Could it be that the poor victim-teens in this case, shouldn't have been loaded and stoned on grass and probably shouldn't have skipped out on the bill? Ya think? Is it reasonable to think you'll need to pay for a meal if you go to a restaurant? This is no more harsh of a lesson than happens every day to not-so-smart and inexperienced youth, that life has consequences. Making a wrong choices certainly does put a damper on the day - especially when the cop/guard is a good shot.

To quote Chris Rock, "People tell ya life is short. No it's not. Life is long. Especially when you make the wrong decisions." Well, in this case, Chris is wrong. Seems these dorks made the wrong decisions and life still got short on 'em.

Call me callus and mean-spirited, but I'm hoping the judge slaps a very high fine and a 2 or 3 year probation on the driver, and wouldn't it be interesting if a separate jury (post-humus) for the dead kid (Mr. Brown) occurred and the judge fined his parents (of course, after the funeral) for not using very good judgement, being drunk and stoned and then skipping out on the bill. Now that would be a wake up call from hell wouldn't it!

Who would think a kid who by the editorials own account had this kind of past: "Mr. Brown -- a college student, an Eagle Scout, a guitar player -- had no criminal record."

In a separate news article from WaPo, the driver had this to say: "Smith, dressed in jeans, a leather jacket and scruffy white sneakers, said he is overwhelmed at the loss of his friend. "He was a great kid," Smith said. "He will be missed more than anyone who has ever died on me before."

SO THIS ISN'T THE FIRST PERSON WHO DIED ON HIM!?? Something's rotten with that statement right there.



But a GUITAR PLAYER - they NEVER go get drunk, smoke pot and skip out on meals. So I'm not buying it. String that cop up by his short and curlies by gum! Isn't getting drunk and stoned on weed and skipping out on breakfast covered under the 11th Amendment or something? No? Someone alert the ACLU already... jeeze.