First, Lyle I completely agree with everything you said!!!
Those girls better get the proper punishment for this. If they get off with some community service bullshit, I will be pissed as hell!!! And I'm really pissed at their parents, none of them that was shown on camera, seem to have any remorse for the girl that was beaten, all they cared about were their spoiled little brats, who they probably think are innocent little angels.
But boy I have to say, that I should have known better than to open this thread up, because it brought back some very painful memories that I thought that I had put behind me. I'm quite surprised by the emotion I feel right now.
I haven't talked about it in awhile, but maybe if I tell you guys, I'll be able to get rid of this dread that I feel right now, because I sure as hell, want to get rid of this feeling before the fights tonight.
Well my story is a perfect example of parents and kids not taking responsibility. I'll try to make it short so that I don't bore you with the details.
Little more than 2 1/2 years ago, I was coming home from a friends house, and unfortunately, I have to pass through a not so nice area to get to the freeway. Well I was stopped at a light that was next to a small city park, where I had seen 6 males surrounding a girl, and attacking her. They were pushing her, beating her, and starting to rip her clothes off. Unfortunately, I don't have a cell phone, and couldn't call 911, so I did what I thought was right, and tried to help.
I drove my SUV up onto the grass of the park, hit 2 of the guys with it, thus knocking them away from her, then grabbed my huge ass snow scraper (trust me, you need a huge ass scraper in Ohio, lol), I jumped out, and just started swinging away to try and get them away from her. But I didn't notice that one of the guys that I knocked with my SUV had circled around my SUV, grabbed a brick from the landscaping, and came up behind me, cracking me in the back of the head, knocking me out.
After that, the next thing I remembered was waking up in the hospital 2 days later with a fractured jaw, broken nose & orbital bone, stitches in my lower lip, and just above my forehead, a badly swollen and bruised face, and massive bruising all around my body.
From what the girl said, they basically took the focus off of her, and proceeded to stomp, kick, punch, and throw bricks at me while I was out cold. She ran home, and her father and uncle came running with bats in hand, and got them to scatter. Luckily, the girl was able to finger all of them. Two were 19, one 18, two 17, and one 16. The juveniles were charged as adults.
The court procedings were just as hellish having to relive it all, because that is the first time I had seen what I looked like immediately following the beating. They brought out poster size photos of me, and I can't even explain to you the feelings that I had when I seen them. I was a bloody, battered, unrecognizable mess. I felt like I was going to throw up, actually. But the thing that made it the hardest, is the fact that the kids, and the parents took no responsibility for their actions, not one of the kids or parents apologized to me, and some of the parents actually had the nerve to yell at, and blame me for the attack!! One parent even chuckled when they showed my pictures!!
Thankfully, they were all found guilty, and it will still be another 10 years from now before the first one of them can try to get out on probation.
Unfortunately, some parents have become so removed from their kids life, they take no interest in raising them properly, and are dumb enough to think that kids will always make the right choices on their own. And unfortunately some parents were brought up in the same type of environment, and instead of trying to break that cycle, they pass that mentallity down to their kids. Then once their kids do something wrong, the parents take no responsibility. Parents who don't want to be bothered with their kids lives, shouldn't have kids in the first place then. It just baffles my mind how some parents just don't care about their kids.
And thankfully, I had great support through all of this, I don't know how I would have gotten through it all without the support of my family and friends. Danny was with me through all of this, and he was a great support to me.
Okay, sorry for boring you guys with this, but I do feel better letting that out.
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