I am the guilty one.
I was not bashing him for the possibility that his parents bought him a T4R. I was responding to the comment that we hoped his paretns would give him a good dumping, along with the judge and insurance company. My response was that in my expereince of dealing with parents of criminals, oh I am sorry, defendants of alledged crimes, most parents are so indulgent that they would not dump on the kid, but fight like heck for the kid instead of teaching the kid right from wrong, as if the act itself is no longer at issue and no longer relevent.
I also find that most over indulgent to bad behavior and the same over indulgent in buying them things to buy their affection. If comes back from not being able to say NO or teaching the child to put off gratificaiton for self discipline. There is a lot to be said for the old Bill Cosby line of "walking to school 5 miles each way, up hill both way,s in the snow, barefoot." So my generalization is that parents who would buy a 15 year old a T4R is not teaching the kid self discipline or maturity but merely buying him=can't say no=won't instill right from wrong.
So I am playing the R. Lee Ermey drill sergeant but I won't apologize for it.
If Junior does not get his butt chewed up by his parents with some wicked punishment, then perhaps some butt chewing here would do. His conduct is no laughing matter and he did have a break. No one got injured or killed.
In the alternative, how many of you would want the job of having to cut some burned up charred body out of the mangled remains of a car crash the he caused, or having to knock on the door in the middle of teh night to tell a parent or child their mother, son, daughter, is dead and would you come to the morgue to identify the remains. While I am writing this we just had a sentencing hearing on a drunk driver who crashed onto a sidwalk and crushed a mother carrying her infant son, fracturing in their skulls. Both lived but spent months in intensive care. Can you look into their eyes and not break down in tears at the tragedy sufferd by an innocnet family all caused by some irresponsible POS?
How many of your would want that job.
Is Junior old enough to realize the he put plenty of innocnet people at risk for his behavior?
If being mature and responsible is to stand up to the plate and take his medicine, and if part of it is to accept the wrath of all if only a butt chewing here, then Junior has made his first step towards being an adult.