Mom confronts crooked judge

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

I like how she was like "he was an all star athlete, then he met some bad people, he started doing bad things, then we called the law on him to scare him. FUCK he got caught with drugs and now he got screwed by a crooked judge. FUCK THE JUDGE!!!"

He got hit with a paraphernalia charge, not possession. Likely had a pipe on him.

[Avatard]

Sorry Trip, it doesn't wash. Yes, the parents fucked up, yes the kid fucked up.

What the judge did wasn't fuck up. It was fuck people, and do it for money.

...and it contributed to a boy with a promising future's death.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

He got hit with a paraphernalia charge, not possession. Likely had a pipe on him.

oops, yeah you are right on that one.

Originally Posted by Avatard

Sorry Trip, it doesn't wash. Yes, the parents fucked up, yes the kid fucked up.

What the judge did wasn't fuck up. It was fuck people, and do it for money.

...and it contributed to a boy with a promising future's death.

That's just a funny paraphrase of the mother's interview.

I am not for the judge by any means. He is a douche.

[Avatard]

I saw it...only I have a kid, and I know how a kid's spirit can be broken. I've been working to rebuild my kid's spirit after a very bad setback. Teens can really be broken easily, and I can imagine what this mother's going through. This man did this to her child over greed. I get your synopsis, but I can't find the funny.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Avatard

I saw it...only I have a kid, and I know how a kid's spirit can be broken. I've been working to rebuild my kid's spirit after a very bad setback. Teens can really be broken easily, and I can imagine what this mother's going through. This man did this to her child over greed. I get your synopsis, but I can't find the funny.

Don't turn your kid over to the cops then. I highly doubt you would though considering your like for them.

[Papa_Complex]

Trip, I don't like how the kid is always portrayed as an angel, after the fact, either. The thing here is that by all accounts he hadn't had enough time to be too far gone to save yet. He ended up being screwed-over by a judge, who was out to feather his own nest.

Any way that you slice it, the justice system exists to serve one of two purposes; either to punish, or to rehabilitate. I would say that you only do the second if the first is no longer possible, but even if it's only meant to punish, the punishment should fit the crime. A kid, who hasn't got much of a history with the law, doesn't deserve to be sent to a boot camp YET.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Trip, I don't like how the kid is always portrayed as an angel, after the fact, either. The thing here is that by all accounts he hadn't had enough time to be too far gone to save yet. He ended up being screwed-over by a judge, who was out to feather his own nest.

Any way that you slice it, the justice system exists to serve one of two purposes; either to punish, or to rehabilitate. I would say that you only do the second if the first is no longer possible, but even if it's only meant to punish, the punishment should fit the crime. A kid, who hasn't got much of a history with the law, doesn't deserve to be sent to a boot camp YET.

Yeah, the kid had issues if his parents called the law on his ass. Makes you wonder if his downward progression would of continued without this whole mess. No one will know what his home life was really like before this incident and to portray him as anything but an angel with an outstanding future would be silly.

[Avatard]

Trip, you're not getting it. If this man's greed contributed in however small a way to this boy's death, he deserves to die at the hand of his grieving mother, IMHO.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Trip, you're not getting it. If this man's greed contributed in however small a way to this boy's death, he deserves to die at the hand of his grieving mother, IMHO.

That's fucking retarded. The man didn't kill the boy. The kid had issues and killed himself. No one will ever know if those issues were from this incident or from something greater than this.

Seriously, are you so old that you have forgotten what it is like to be that age. He's hardly an impressionable 8 year old any longer.

The judge deserves to go to jail no doubt, but execution by a grieving mother is about as fucking retarded as an actual punishment as I have ever heard, especially since it's not even a freakin murder or even a homicide.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

That's fucking retarded. The man didn't kill the boy. The kid had issues and killed himself. No one will ever know if those issues were from this incident or from something greater than this.

Seriously, are you so old that you have forgotten what it is like to be that age. He's hardly an impressionable 8 year old any longer.

The judge deserves to go to jail no doubt, but execution by a grieving mother is about as fucking retarded as an actual punishment as I have ever heard, especially since it's not even a freakin murder or even a homicide.

Well I'm fairly old, but I still remember that none of my 8 year old friends would have ever considered suicide. The pressures of being a teenager were a different story though. Someone who is 16-18 years old is much more likely to be on the edge, to the point that some asshole could push him over it.