A young teenaged soldier in the Taiwanese army I knew got drunk on leave and hit a toddler killing the kid at 2am during a monsoon storm...he now is a bartender and he and his family have to give every paycheck for the rest of their lives to the victims family......this kid with the firecrackers will never be able to compensate for the fire......he'll go to juvie and be marked for life...
I wouldn't classify what the kid did as an "accident", criminal negligence or gross negligence is more like it. But yeah I still wouldn't kill'em.
I don't know the kid but most of us did idiotic stuff as kids....even as adults. Drunk driving for example. I did it once 20 years ago and what separates me from people who kill someone is pure luck. Most people wanting this kid's head on a stake have probably done stupid things too.
Sometimes you gotta burn some shit to grow some shit. Nature is a bitch, but only a second cousin bitch, not the bitch like me!
For the most part. There are always outliers. I will never forget walking the trail through the woods everyday from the school bus top to my apartments in jr high. Many days there was this other kid from school, but he was always by himself and he was sniffing paint thinner cans he was stealing from shop. He would just sniff and watch us as we walked by. I always wondered what his issue was. Then three years later he had set a house on fire down the street from my apartments. Turns out as far as I remember is that he was missing a card in the deck or something and ended up in a children's mental facility down here in the west hills somewhere. Rare, but there are those few who truly have no conscious for whatever reason and want to see the world burn. These ones should be locked( not normal prison) up for life or until completely healed...if there is such a thing.
I think there are some who do destructive shit by themselves, but when they're in group it's magnified.
Idaho bills parent of juvenile $84,500 after wildfire http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/idaho_bills_parent_of_juvenile.html
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/sto...enager-fireworks-charged-vancouver/781275001/ Was the punishment enough? I know a couple posters on here were asking for the kids head..
He's lucky he didn't get an arson charge. Reckless burning, depositing burning materials on forest lands, unlawful possesion of fireworks, criminal michief, and reckless endangerment. How time do those 5 counts carry?
