Sue the Dogs
Maybe I'm cruel and inhuman, or perhaps I will never understand some things about this country. Today's paper has an article about the three boys who were found dead in an abandoned car's trunk last month. For those of you not familiar with the story, this past June three New Jersey kids were reported missing from the yard where they were last seen. The families called police after three hours of fruitless searching, and a massive search which included 150 officers was launched within a few hours.
It turns out the kids had been playing in the front yard of the house where two of them were visiting and the other one lived. They climbed into the trunk of an abandoned car and it accidentally locked itself behind them, and they suffocated before anyone was able to find them. Sad story.
Now, this is where things begin to sound pretty stupid: The lawyer of one of the families claims that the kids could have lived for up to 33 hours before suffocating in the trunk, and the family wants to sue the police for negligence.
Let me tell you that again: Parents left their children unattended for -they claim- thirty minutes. Once they realized they were missing, they searched for three hours before calling the police. The police deployed 150 officers, several search dogs, and mobilized volunteers to help on the week long search, concentrating on a nearby river, the place where it was most likely that the kids would have gone missing and possibly drowned. They didn't find them. Yet a few days later, the father of one of the kids decided to check the trunk of the car parked right outside the house where they were last seen playing and made the grim discovery. Now they want to sue the police, and possibly Toyota (yes, the car was a Toyota)
Why did the parents failed to check this apparently "obvious" place in the three hours prior to calling for help? Why did they leave their children unnatended for ANY period of time, be it five or thirty minutes or three hours? Why did they wait for three hours to report the children missing? Why the fuck do they blame the police for their irresponsibility as parents and their incompetence? Why are they trying to find blame where there is none other than their own for not taking care of their children? Are they -just out of curiosity- asking for money? They want to sue Toyota? Why don't they sue the government of Japan for importing cars to the US? Maybe they can sue the US government for allowing the imports? How about suing the dogs the police used on the search for failing to pick up the scent where the kids were last seen?
What is wrong with these people? Seriously, what is wrong with these people? The independent reports and investigations imply "incompetence" on the part of the police department. Where were they supposed to look for the kids? Were they supposed to open the trunk of every car parked within a mile radius from the house where the real incompetents live? Were they expected to look under the beds of the same house? (which I bet they did) Wasn't it obvious to search in the nearby river? What were the parents doing when the kids dissapeared? If it was so obvious that they could have been in the car, why didn't they check it themselves? Who are they calling negligent? Why does anyone even consider a lawsuit on this issue?
I think the dogs did it. They thought the trunk of the car was too easy and not as exciting as going downriver searching for a scent. I think they should sue the dogs, and maybe the judge who accepts the case might actually appoint a couple of lawyers for the irresponsible canines. They could be paid for with tax payer dollars! The same dollars that paid for the massive search caused because of the irresponsibility of those kids' parents. Yeah, I thik so. Sue the dogs.
As you can tell, I'm grouchy today. Good Night.
It turns out the kids had been playing in the front yard of the house where two of them were visiting and the other one lived. They climbed into the trunk of an abandoned car and it accidentally locked itself behind them, and they suffocated before anyone was able to find them. Sad story.
Now, this is where things begin to sound pretty stupid: The lawyer of one of the families claims that the kids could have lived for up to 33 hours before suffocating in the trunk, and the family wants to sue the police for negligence.
Let me tell you that again: Parents left their children unattended for -they claim- thirty minutes. Once they realized they were missing, they searched for three hours before calling the police. The police deployed 150 officers, several search dogs, and mobilized volunteers to help on the week long search, concentrating on a nearby river, the place where it was most likely that the kids would have gone missing and possibly drowned. They didn't find them. Yet a few days later, the father of one of the kids decided to check the trunk of the car parked right outside the house where they were last seen playing and made the grim discovery. Now they want to sue the police, and possibly Toyota (yes, the car was a Toyota)
Why did the parents failed to check this apparently "obvious" place in the three hours prior to calling for help? Why did they leave their children unnatended for ANY period of time, be it five or thirty minutes or three hours? Why did they wait for three hours to report the children missing? Why the fuck do they blame the police for their irresponsibility as parents and their incompetence? Why are they trying to find blame where there is none other than their own for not taking care of their children? Are they -just out of curiosity- asking for money? They want to sue Toyota? Why don't they sue the government of Japan for importing cars to the US? Maybe they can sue the US government for allowing the imports? How about suing the dogs the police used on the search for failing to pick up the scent where the kids were last seen?
What is wrong with these people? Seriously, what is wrong with these people? The independent reports and investigations imply "incompetence" on the part of the police department. Where were they supposed to look for the kids? Were they supposed to open the trunk of every car parked within a mile radius from the house where the real incompetents live? Were they expected to look under the beds of the same house? (which I bet they did) Wasn't it obvious to search in the nearby river? What were the parents doing when the kids dissapeared? If it was so obvious that they could have been in the car, why didn't they check it themselves? Who are they calling negligent? Why does anyone even consider a lawsuit on this issue?
I think the dogs did it. They thought the trunk of the car was too easy and not as exciting as going downriver searching for a scent. I think they should sue the dogs, and maybe the judge who accepts the case might actually appoint a couple of lawyers for the irresponsible canines. They could be paid for with tax payer dollars! The same dollars that paid for the massive search caused because of the irresponsibility of those kids' parents. Yeah, I thik so. Sue the dogs.
As you can tell, I'm grouchy today. Good Night.
posted by Juan Pablo at 2:49 AM
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