Why would you feel sympathy for these asshats?

[Lucky]

Right... who pays your bosses' paycheck?

Hint: it's not the subscriptions... that's generally a small fraction of the paper's revenue (and the bigger the paper, the smaller the fraction).
Could your paper print something that was offensive to one of your major advertisers? If your circulation went down, would not your advertising revenue also go down? How do you think those 2 factors affect your paper's editorial positions?
Sounds to me like you know nothing about the media even though you work in it...

Thanks, but I don't need a lesson on the news business model. 🙂

In theory, and in application at *most* newspapers, there is a firewall between advertising and editorial sides of newspapers. We don't know what will run on their side, and they don't know what will run on our side. Newspapers are setup that way. Obviously just looking at the paper we know who our advertisers are, but that changes nothing. Of course we could run something offensive to one of our major advertisers; knowingly not doing so with good cause would violate the core of our ethics. Contrary to what you think, yes, we do have ethics and adhere to them.

*when I speak of editorial I mean news, journalists, writers, photographers and am referring to editorial stories, not the opinion page.

 

[LackCash]

They can't be Darwin award winners b/c they are minors🙁. This is clearly a case of negligent parenting and as such the parents should be prosecuted.:disgust: I'm as old as the driver was and I know way better than to do what they did. I do tons of stupid stuff, but probably the stupidest ever was to stick an emty bullet shell in a light socket and I also have stuck my finger into a light socket😀

 

[LackCash]

bump

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: LackCash
They can't be Darwin award winners b/c they are minors🙁

Sure they can. They died due to their own terminal stupidity. Not to be too cold or callous about it, but as I said, earlier, they may have done the world a favor by deleting themselves from the gene pool. That is the exact reference for the Darwin awards.

I do tons of stupid stuff, but probably the stupidest ever was to stick an emty bullet shell in a light socket and I also have stuck my finger into a light socket😀

Did you live, or are you just waming up for the next round of Darwins? 😛

 

[LackCash]

I will win a Darwin award someday. About the minors. The Rules of the Darwin Awards(as stated in the books)say that no minors are allowed.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: LackCash
They can't be Darwin award winners b/c they are minors🙁.

Um, HUH???

Folks, the definition of a "Darwin Award" is someone who removes themselves from the genepool BEFORE they breed.

Age has nothing to do with it... though, the younger they are the less likely they are to have had children.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: LackCash
I will win a Darwin award someday. About the minors. The Rules of the Darwin Awards(as stated in the books)say that no minors are allowed.

That's just PC back-watching. The truth is, a minor is a PERFECT "Darwin Award" candidate, as they are the least likely to have had offspring before offing themselves with their stupidity.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Very hard to have sympathy for them.

 

[ViperV990]

Darwinism at its best... I suppose.

 

[ReMb]

No

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: sxr7171

Originally posted by: Amused What upsets me the most were the parents reactions. They all were completely excusing or ignoring the fact that their children were in the commission of a felony and endangering other lives. The parents should be prosecuted for their children's crime, and deaths. Charge them with neglegent homicide and auto theft.

This I have no problem with. I mean 7 kids and not one parent to stop them? People like that shouldn't have kids. But the kids were just kids.

I think they suffered enough with the loss of their children.

I think they did, hopefully they won't ever let it happen again.


Happy New Year everyone.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: labgeek
Guess I expect a little more from my "reporting" than you do.

Edit -
I expect when a "reporter" says that someone "said" something, they actually did say it.

Howard Hurtt said his son and his friends had recently been borrowing cars from people they knew.

There is a difference.

Robert Johnson said "This is wrong. We will press charges. We will seek justice. Those who have wronged us will pay for what they have done."

Robert Johnson said that what happened was wrong and that charges will be filed.

If it doesn't have quotes, it's been paraphrased.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: labgeek
Guess I expect a little more from my "reporting" than you do.

Edit -
I expect when a "reporter" says that someone "said" something, they actually did say it.

Howard Hurtt said his son and his friends had recently been borrowing cars from people they knew.

There is a difference.

Robert Johnson said "This is wrong. We will press charges. We will seek justice. Those who have wronged us will pay for what they have done."

Robert Johnson said that what happened was wrong and that charges will be filed.

If it doesn't have quotes, it's been paraphrased.

Yeah, but that does not mean it was not said. Oftentimes such paraphrasing will happen in the editing process, when trying to trim the story a few inches. Editors might lop off direct quotes for space but still want to reference what they said.

 

[5ayle]

Darwin Award candidates?

everyone knows donuts are rated at 50mph....
you can't outrun the law...
why the would you steal a car w/ a donut on it anyways...
no seatbelts...
since when will 15 yr old outrun the fvcking cops????

You have successfully removed yourselves from the gene pool...
Humanity thanks you.

 

[virtuamike]

Linky

Very similar to what happened back home over a year ago. All the locals and high schoolers were crying about it. What the article neglects to say is that the retaining wall was the only thing stopping them from slamming into a row of houses. 75 in a residential, no sympathy from me.

I got no problem with idiots ridding us of their stupidity as long as they don't take anyone else out in the process.

 

[UptheMiddle]

Some of you people are incredibly ruthless.....

Not every 15 year old knows that a spare is to be used at less than 15mph....

Can't imagine a death penalty being justified for kids doing stupid things (even if it was self imposed). Doing stupid things equating to a death sentence is not just! Heck, we've all done stupid things in our life (especially in the teenage years).

How would you feel about this? Many of us know that smoking can have grave consequences (literally). By participating in an act that many consider to be "not so intelligent", does that mean that smokers should be killed in a horrific fashion? Lets not forget to have the bitter few on the sidelines praying that you burn in hell after your appointed death....

Apart from how tragic this is for the parents, how do you think that police officer feels?

 

[Tom]

What happened is surely a tragedy.


The right lesson to take from it isn't that spare tires aren't safe at 100 mph; it's that no one is immortal and there are consequences for the decisions we make.

 

[mindless1]

I can't very well sympathize for the dead... but for their families.

Calling the dead, "asshats", well, pretty pathetic to pick on someone who clearly can't defend themselves. Usually criticizing others is a way to try to feel better about yourself instead of focusing on something constructive. If you think you have so much more sense than to do this, spend some time with kids and show them this article, let them be reminded of how quickly a life can end.