Innocent fun???

[thecleaninglady]

A 16 year old BOY was killed yesterday
because he and a friend decided to drag
race at almost 4 in the morning.

According to a quote from his father in
this mornings Post Standard:

"I did that when I was a kid myself,"
Dan Green said. "It's innocent fun.
What more can you say?
It just didn't make it with him."

Innocent fun??? FOR WHO???
Do you think it was fun for his friend
to stand by helplessly watching him die?
(Although MAYBE he learned a lesson!)
Do you think it was fun for the first person
who arrived on the scene after the crash
and could do nothing to help the child?
Do you think it was fun for the people who
had to pull him from the wreck?

What more can you say???
How about NO!!! ?

This is what I call irresponsible parenting.
He was just having fun risking not only
his life but the life of anyone who may
have been traveling that road.

I know some paramedics/EMTs who do not
feel witnessing such tragedy and stupidity is
"innocent fun". It breaks their hearts to see
such a thing happen. They have a job to do
and they do it. But it still pulls at their hearts.

[Truth]

This is just disturbing. I agree with you about the irresponsible parenting.

Here's what gets me. His son JUST died. It makes me wonder if he is in denial and doesn't really think his son is dead. I see no other explanation. Or he talks like his son was a casual aquaintance, not someone he loved. Something just doesn't seem right about the father's response. If it was my kid, I wouldn't even be able to give a statement. I'd be an emotional wreck.

[john032441]

i was suprised also by the stupid remark this father made - was not denial - just plain stupidity