I love this story because the media has been reporting the hell out of it and trying to set the tone like a sob story. We should all feel so awful about how this POOR kid, ran away from home and his mother doesn't know where to find him. Now he's dead and it's a tragedy.
My mother was always telling me about this story whenever I've gotten home from school or work this past week. She's always had this grim, sympathetic mother's look on her face each time. But every time she's told me, I just laugh. Now that he's actually gone and killed himself by falling out of a tree, it just makes me laugh even more.
Now, I don't want to seem callous. I mean, our information about what the hell actually happened to this kid is really vague. In fact it's the sort of classic super media vague where the story seems crafted to me and disingenuous. The media doesn't have all the answers, but why do they need them, this kid went rotten due to those damn awful video games that are also making our kids fat! Bottom line is, I don't have all the answers or any right to pass judgment on any of this, but from what the media has told us, this kid was an asshole and a retard.
He got into an argument with his parents over wanting to play Call of Duty 4 too much, they finally tried to lay down the law, so he ran away from home like a retard and then as the icing on the cake, he falls out of a tree and dies. I would never say this to his mother or his friends or whatever, but this kid was an idiot. The CBC can show press conferences with his inept parents all the want, but in my mind, there's probably a lot of other people on this planet who died last week who will never be on the news and who deserved a lot more mourning than this disobedient kid did.
