OT: What Has The World Come To

[Atrocities]

The Following Is A Rant, Be Warned.


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What has the world come to when all the news channels have to report is that some guy left his two children in their locked mini-van to watch a movie while he went into Lowells to pick up some stuff?

Why is this news? We have all been left alone in the car while our parents ran into the store for something. Why now is this considered a "News Worthy" story?

Worse yet, why was the man cited and his kids placed into protective custody? He did nothing that has not been done before. It was not hot out, the kids were old enought to roll down the windows if need be, and all they were doing was minding their own business watching scooby doo.

Good god these ultra "protect you from your rights" fanatical lefties really need to step the hell back and seriously consider MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS!

And shame on the Channel 12 (Fox 12) for running the story as if it was major news. OMG how our news has degraded into TABLOID TV.

What do you say to people who report crap like this as news? I simply just cannot figure them out.

Now if he had left the car running or it was a hot day and no AC, then hell ya, bad man, but he didn't, and the children were 7 and 10.

*shakes head*

What has the world come to?
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[ April 02, 2004, 05:21: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Kamog]

Must have been a slow day for news.

[Atrocities]

They do this all the time. Someone was caught smoking the Clark County Court House a few weeks back and they ran that as a leading story.

Tablid Tv.

[DavidG]

WTF you can't leave 7 and 10 year old kids alone for a few mintues? When I was 10 we used to head off into the woods to play after lunch and not come back till dinner.

[tesco samoa]

AT it saves them from the real news...

Such as news about corperations and the enviroment.

When I was in the states i noticed it was a steady news of Poor people with guns, Black Males or Hispanics. Then these white people crimes such as locking the kids in a suv... Oh and beware killer bees or something like that.

I just thought that the media adjenda was to promote fear for the middle class.

I would rather see in the news Corporate Crime and decisions that affects thousands of people over some convenice store being held up.

But hey you cannot take some rich white haired white guy in his 50's and toss him around like a rag dog. ( just keeping in line with the sterotype) No one would watch... which would hurt product sales and hurt the corperation that is presenting the news.

[primitive]

Congrats to Fox for a well executed political propaganda stunt. Seems like they got the response they wanted

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Good god these ultra "protect you from your rights" fanatical lefties really need to step the hell back and seriously consider MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS!
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It's an election year