Scary

[FLATHEAD]

I was appalled and disgusted on what I just saw on the news. Some guy in Philly was found dead and gutted like a deer!!They said his heart and liver and stomach was missing.What kind of a monster could do such a thing? It seems like there is story similar to this in the news all the time anymore.Last week some 25 year old man and wife shot a ten year old kid over a snowball fight? Two days ago a 12 year old girl was murdered by an 17 year old in Allentown for no apparent reason. This world just keeps gettin more scary everyday. Is it me or did you not hear of these kind of things 15 20 years ago. It just bothers me that news like this just seems to be the norm anymore. <br /><br />---------------<br />Flathead

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Scary

Flathead, I'm sure it went on, just not to the extent that it is nowadays, plus you have more news coverage now than you did 20 years ago.<br />It is a shame though that all this is going on.<br />Another thing, you would think that kids would be safe at home, but not anymore. A lot of family beatings and killings going on for some strange reason.<br />One thing it could be is no family morals are instilled into the kids today like they were when I was growing up.<br />You did what you were told, no questions ask, but now if you discipline your kid, they holler child abuse.<br />There is a difference between the two.<br />Same thing in schools.<br />Use to be that if a kid needed it he went to the clothes closet and got one.<br />For me, if I went to the clothes closet and got one, I got another one when I got home.<br />Thats the way it was and it made a better person out of me for it.<br />The old saying holds true, "Spare the rod, Spoil the child"

 

[JB]

Re: Scary

I think that the standards of journalism have changed. <br /><br />It has always been what sells or gets viewers, but it seems that viewers and readers want sensationalism and shock these days.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Re: Scary

Yes the media does sensationalize things to the extream. An example being 45 minutes of news coverage on a storm that dumps 1/2 inch of snow. But my point is that these types of heinous crimes are most definitly on the increase. I guess there is no explaination for it. It just seems to be spreading like wildfire. To the point that you almost expect to see it every day on the news. Sad.

 

[Fishbusters]

Re: Scary

In the same day they found a 15 Year olds body wrapped up in plastic and duck tape dumped out on a street, two youths attacked and severly beat a third younger boy, a woman was arrested for shooting into a crowd of 100 or more people outside a sports bar not to mention the arrest I witnessed where a young man was arrested for fighting with a cop. All of this was withing about a 10 mile radius.

 

[plywoody]

Re: Scary

I don't know. When I was a kid growing up in Seattle, the weapon of choice were baseball bats and chains and tire irons and the like. And none of these attacks were ever reported in the papers, and TV news didn't hardly exist at the time.<br />The only way I knew they were going on was that I saw them going on.<br /><br />Nowadays, I think the weapons have improved dramatically, and clearly there is more news coverage, but is it getting that much worse? Maybe, but I am not convinced. Considering at least how many more people there are than 40 years ago, at least.<br /><br />There have been crazies forever, and violent people forever. I am not at all sure any meaningful conclusions can be drawn from this, other that people are not always nice.

 

[magster65]

Re: Scary

We live in a small town that had never been in the paper except for the annual country fair. That was 20 years ago, now we've had gruesome murders and lots of assault and vandalism... etc. Times have changed... a lot! It's the level of frustration with the youth today. When I was younger we could take our dirt bikes for a ride, now you'll be charged with trespassing and have your motorcycle impounded. We would take our little boat and putt around in the bay, now gas is unaffordable for some kids and you'll likely pay moorage for even a dinghy. In general, besides video entertainment and sports (also expensive now), there's a lot less to do. It's no excuse for crime but I bet some of societies 'rotten apples' would have been different had they been born 20 years earlier.