Unruly Behavior

This is a great piece of creative writing by liberal media. Six kids steal someone's car, run it into a train. Four die. This is not a tragedy, a tragedy is when something bad happens to someone for no reason. A tragedy is not something bad that happens to you while you are stealing someone's car. One of the parents wants to blame the train company, seemingly overlooking that without an underaged driver in a stolen vehicle, the relative location of the train, or the markings of the crossing become irrelevant. The article only uses the word stolen once when referring to the Jeep, using synonyms elsewhere, lessening the fact that these were theives, out driving around in someone else's property. There is nothing on the Jeep's owner, perhaps they needed that vehicle for their livelyhood. No talk of the psychological damage they might suffer knowing their vehicle was used for a final death ride for four young children. This was, at best, stupidity on a colossal scale. And while I cannot imagine the horror and decimation that will befall the families of the victims, I find it abhorrent that the media portrays what was juvenile deliquents, stealing an automobile and putting lives, their own and others, at risk, as a tragedy of greatest porportions. It would have been tragic had they killed an innocent bystander. As it stands, it is just a horribly unfortunate accident, no more, no less.

Joy ride turns tragic for Baytown teens - Houston Chronicle