Let’s see…the world is becoming such a scary place to live…I am starting to hate it BIG time. No wonder I want to lock my doors and never go outside again. {Then again…my son is on his THIRD playing of “The Little Mermaid” today…so getting out more would be nice at times!}
Reasons to stay home and keep my children away from the rest of the world:
1}There was a bomb threat found at a local ELEMENTARY school last week. My daughter was actually in that school until we moved at Thanksgiving time. This school is pre-K thru 6th grade…so it was a young CHILD who wrote a threat on a bathroom wall. It was found after school…and the ploice cleared the school that night…but still! The high school in our district {10th – 12th grades} was on lockdown for over 5 hours last week as well because a “threatening note” was found. A friend od the family is a sophmore there and she said she got stuck sitting in the locker room from 9:30 to 2 that day. {Ummm…we kep children in the school when something like this happens?} She said she spent most of it laying on the floor sleeping. They still haven’t figured out who was responsible but the papers did say it was the FIFTH such threat since June of last year. {heck these kids weren’t even in school from June 13th to the beginning of September.}
Oh…and our local news stations carried NOTHING about the lockdown tho a station about 2 hours from here did. I found out b/c my daughter’s biological father called me…his wife had seen it on the news and he wanted to know what the heck was going on. I had no clue…finally found a story on a news website…but not a local one.
2}The man who shot and killed two of our county sheriff’s deputies two years ago was officially sentenced to death yesterday morning. Sheriff’s Deputies Michael VanKuren and Christopher Briggs were killed in March of 2004 while attempting to serve warrants on Dustin Briggs and his then girlfriend. These two fine upstanding men were killed over meth…a drug that seems to be overrunning our area, and this whole country. The presiding judge had this to say to Dustin at his final sentencing yesterday “You appeared to me during the trial, to be a man without remorse and humanity.” After all he has taken away…he has yet to say one word of apology or even tried to explain how he could do what he did…
I met Chris’ widow, Kim, and their little boy, Christian last summer and become at least email friends with Kim. I also work with Chris’ Mom. They are all wonderful people who didn’t deserve to lose Chris this way. Nor did Mike’s widow and children. Elane was unable to even comment on yesterday’s sentencing to the local papers. Yesterday was Mike’s birthday…she should have been telling him Happy 38th birthday, not looking into the face of the man who shot him in cold blood. Christian will be 5 this year…so many years of growing left to do…and his Daddy, who adored him, will not be there to see it. Like my son, Christian was too young to understand that his Daddy was dead…so Kim explained to him that Chris is “in the stars” now. When my husband passed away I told our son, Justin, that his Daddy is a star now…watching over him and his sister every day. He still says “Night Daddy. Me lub you!” almost every night before he will go to bed. On cloudy nights he gets upset b/c he can’t see his Daddy’s star. I wonder if Christian is the same way?
3}A New York state Trooper {Andrew Sperr} was shot and killed less than 30 minutes from here after a robbery. The suspects were changing vehicles and Sperr was not even aware yet of the robbery. All three were indicted on charges last Thursday. Another senseless death…another upstanding man killed before his time by criminals who will probably show no remorse in the end. New York’s Senate is moving closer to approving the death penalty again…though I don’t know if it will be in time for these men to be sentenced to it. Do I believe in the death penalty? I would have said “Probably not” a few years ago…but as I watch these frightening crimes come closer and closer to home, I have begun to believe these criminals are getting no less than they deserve. What right did they have to take these mens lives? These men had wives…children…families who loved and adored them…all of whom will never be able to say “I love you” to them face to face again. The murderers families will fight the death penalty…they will lose someone they love dearly as well…but the murderers brought it on themselves.
4}A 26 year old woman was charged with smothering her TEN WEEK OLD to death about an hour from here. From what I have heard {not sure how much is correct at this point} the baby wouldn’t stop crying and the mother was tired/upset. So about 2 AM, she held the baby face down into the mattress until the little one stopped crying. It took 15 days before the police officially accused her. I also heard that she then went back to bed and didn’t check on the baby until NOON. Please tell me WHO has ever heard of a 10 week old who slept for 10 hours straight???? But she didn’t realize that she had killed her baby? Maybe it was post-partum depression, maybe the baby had colic and the mother had barely slept in days…I don’t know. But how do you justify KILLING your infant in any circumstances?????
5}“The driver in the New Year’s Eve crash that killed a 2000 {local} High School graduate waived both his preliminary hearing and formal arraignment Tuesday, effectively entering a plea of “not guilty” to the charges filed against him.” This boy and his best friend went out and were drinking New Year’s Eve…they ended up in an accident and his friend was killed, effectively ending the lives of not one but TWO promising young men. The driver is “facing charges of homicide by vehicle; involuntary manslaughter; homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence; purchase, consumption, possession or transportation of liquor or malt or brewed beverages; driving on roadways laned for traffic; driving vehicle at safe speed; careless driving; reckless driving; restraint systems; and four counts of driving under the influence of alcohol or controlled substance.”
Unfortunately a stupid teenage thing…and we all know MOST teenagers have done it at one point or another…ended in the death of his best friend. Now he will have to pay for his crime. But what bothers me is the rumors about where these boys got the alcohol…and drugs…found in their systems. Local teens {my nephews are 16 and 19, so I have “inside sources”} are saying two things. 1.}The boys were at the home of a local sports coach {from their high school alma mater} and 2}that they were “partying” with a local police officer. Either choice is sickening to even think about…and more sickening if they are actually TRUE. These well respected adults…in high positions locally…may have been serving alcohol to these young boys…and as of yet no one seems to know for sure. Worse this 20 year old has not admitted where he got the alcohol from…and may never do so, since he will be “ratting out” someone who is important to him. ~sigh~ The stigma of being a “rat” at his age, may even outway the possibilty that he could be in less trouble if he were to say where the alcohol and drugs came from.
Well I suppose there are many more things I could talk about…but I have been typing forever…and I have cleaning to get done. I’m sure I will find more things to make me want to stay indoors forever, so expect more posts of the same. ~sigh~
Beth
