[CBFF] Pacman suspended FOR THE SEASON; Henry gets 8

[Jim Ferolie]

Teri, this is an irrelevant discussion, because while I totally agree with 
you in theory, you couldn't possibly know how you would react if your son 
committed a quadruple homicide. You'd probably be one step from the loony 
bin.

My thing about the mom is chances are Pac Man is good at talking his way out 
of things. That's probably how he's not in jail already. He's clearly got 
his mother convinced that he's been framed and the cops are staking him out 
looking for excuses to take him down.

P.S. I'm right there with you on this "no consequences" crap. This warm and 
fuzzy stuff is good for nobody in the long run. It just produces spoiled 
brats. Just like all these science fairs I've been taking photos of with no 
winners, no prizes, no judging. Everyone is good, everyone tried hard, yay. 
I'm sorry, but when I worked my ass off to build a telescope as a 
kindergartner, I tried harder than a hell of a lot of kids there and 
deserved recognition of that.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mom2iancal" <senzigx4 at charter.net>


> Interesting that you think you would know how I would react.  I can tell 
> you that IF my son were to committ a quadruple homicide, I might say that 
> I have seen the good in him and I still love him...however, IF he did it 
> then I'd want him in jail.  Really, a quadruple homicide is not a good 
> comparison but I'll go with it since you are the one who brought it up. 
> He murders someone, then I'd wonder where I went wrong, I'd blame myself, 
> I wouldn't like that he was in jail but I would NOT cry how it wasn't fair 
> and he should be out because "deep down" he's a good boy.  Deep down that 
> may be true, but on the surface he murdered someone...  Of course I would 
> be upset, of course I would HATE that that is what my son had become...but 
> I would want him to pay his debt to society.
>

In my own humble opinion, there are too many parents who try to coddle their 
children and make excuses when they screw up and cry how it "isn't fair to 
punish junior, he's a good boy deep down..."