Sep 30
How ’bout, we sew them into canvas bags and drop them in the Chemung river instead?
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Hearings held for youths linked to Canton threats
Canton High School’s “gang” was in court on Friday for detention hearings to determine whether they should remain in custody or be released to their parents.
Can’t we also arrest the parents for doing such an abysmal job with their offspring?
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Yeah, good idea. Let’s send them back to their parents who obviously aren’t paying attention to them in the first place. People can plead ignorance all they want, but who doesn’t see their kid leaving for school wearing the latest gang colors? If I were one of the parents, I would tell the judge to lock my kid up. There is definitely something missing in these kids lives that make them feel they need to promote violence. That isn’t going to be fixed by sending them back with mommy and daddy.
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The canvas bag idea sounds swell to me.
A sort of related subject; I could be wrong about the age but, every morning while driving to school to drop my daughter off, I see small groups of ’school-age?’ boys (thuggish looking) wandering about, doing “the hand shake” and what-not, but not heading towards any school. Maybe they look younger than they really are, but I don’t think so. Don’t the cops see these kids just milling about and not in school, or isn’t that illegal anymore?
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Yeah, the cops would also be accused of racial profiling. I think kids have to go to school until they finish the year of their 17th birthday nowadays. Unless their parents choose to home school them. That must have been the case with the youths you are describing. Maybe their parents were doing some job readiness training on that street corner, cause that is where they will end up working.
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The kids were of various race and they “looked” younger than 17…I would say 14-15…
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That these geniuses can’t look around and see exactly how limited their lives will be, is just, well, amazing.
They have to want better for themselves, or am I worng, are they completely satisfied with their lot in life?
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Bill, my daughter said pretty close to the same thing this morning when she saw them, she said, “Don’t they know that they are throwing their lives away? What do they think is going to happen to them when they’re adults, if they live that long…” good insight. It’s sad, but true.
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The world needs peopel to flip burgers also I guess.
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I much prefer a hard-working high school kid earning extra money for college or an active senior citizen to flip my burgers or bag my fries…
We saw the same kids (school skippers) again on our way to school this morning. My daughter’s comments when she saw them; “There they are again. Why do they have to wear “gangsta” clothes? Don’t they know that they don’t look cool, they look stupid? I wonder where they shop for “gangsta clothes.” Then she sang out in her best “Lionel Ritchie circa ‘The Commodores” (she loves my old c.d.’s) funkadelic voice”, “We don’t need to go to school…our goal in life is aiming for wellllllllllfarrrrrrrrre ….yeeeyow!” a sad, sad, sight. I asked her if I should roll down my window and ask where they are going; she said, “go ahead if you want to get shot.” I promised I would use my very best ‘caring, nice sweet mommy voice’ …she wouldn’t let me.
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Isn’t the entire Hilfigger line of clothes geared towards the ‘urban youth’?
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I think you’re right Bill, about Hilfigger. Funny though, I never see him dress like that.
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Really, who would get caught dead in those clothes?
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He was always a good salesman, I’ll have to give him that. His store in Elmira “the peoples’ place” was the coolest thing around. My mom didn’t like me to hang out there with my friends…
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I don’t think that there is a ‘place’ that cool in Elmira today…you missed out Bill, there was a little “village” in downtown Elmira called Phat-City, we were in jr. high at the time; used to go there to make our own choker necklaces and shop for cool sweatshirts. The People’s Place had a photo studio set up in the store; my friends and I tried on all of the wild disco clothes and posed for pictures, we thought we were models! They gave us free copies of the pictures; lots of fun! Then we would go for lunch in Izzard’s tea room. (late 70’s). It was a great way to spend a saturday afternoon or day off from school. It was safe enough to walk or ride our bikes downtown too!
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growing up in Manhattan must have been very cool; I would have loved that experience!
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