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October 2, 2006
Another Thing
I know that there is wickedness in this world, that’s why I like familiarity. I would rather be home late at night then out where something could happen. I expect the same of my children.
With that being said, there are some things I cannot stand to watch or hear on TV.
* I don’t like to hear of any child abuse or child deaths from abuse.
* I don’t want to hear about some girl throwing her baby in the dumpster or leaving it behind in the stall of some bathroom.
* I don’t like hearing about the mentally handicapped being abused.
* I cannot watch the hidden videos where parents have taped the babysitter abusing their child while they are away and I really don’t even want to hear any details.
* I cannot bear to watch TV shows featuring car crashes. These shows don’t make me sad, they do however, put me under tremendous stress.
* I cannot watch police videos where someone is beating someone else (it doesn’t matter which side of the law they are on).
I stay away from this type of news. It has the ability to make me so sad I cry myself to sleep, so I try to avoid it if possible.
Last night, I couldn’t make myself change the channel because what I was seeing and hearing was so appalling.
60 Minutes did a segment on teenagers who “bumhunt”.
This means they hunt down bums (homeless people = people who live on the streets). Once they find a homeless person, they proceed to beat him, hit him with metal rods, shoot paintballs at him, catch him on fire, etc. Death may result.
The teenagers heard about this from videos called BUMFIGHTS. (I am only linking to them so you can judge for yourself how bad they are.) Apparently, these videos are sold everywhere. The things that happen on the videos are REAL, not pretend.
The maker of these videos pays homeless people to do harmful stunts in exchange for alcohol and money, normally as little as $2. These videos also show teenagers fighting.
They interviewed a boy that was sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing a homeless man during one of these attacks. He and four other boys beat the man on and off for three hours until the man was dead. He and his friends thought it was fun.
To me, this is unbelievable, sick, and wicked. I encourage you to click HERE to read the full story.
This is another horrible thing to add to my list.
Posted by tami at October 2, 2006 11:06 AM
Comments
That IS horrible! I went to the site and watched some of the video previews. It's hard to believe that human beings can sink that low. It's just depraved.
Posted by: Stacey at October 2, 2006 3:57 PM
Regarding the teens, what's horrible is how so many kids are raised with *no* concept of right from wrong. They are desensitized to what's around them and numb to other peoples' feelings; they lack the fundamental ability to empathize with another human being. Those are the really scary people. :(
Posted by: gw at October 2, 2006 11:56 PM
That is horrendous. I think we have forbidden our kids so many experiences that are so called dangerous, they no longer know what hurts and what doesn't. So other people suffer in these cases. I feel so sorry for their parents (as well as they victim of course) - they must be questioning the whole of their way of bringing up those children.
Posted by: Miss L at October 6, 2006 5:51 AM