Posted by David Sherman on Friday, January 07, 2005 at 11:47AM :
In Reply to: The kids' father,.... posted by MoparNorm on Friday, January 07, 2005 at 10:28AM :
I don't disagree. From the news story it sounded like the kid was "tweaking" (what they used to call a "speed freak") or was high on something else. It's hard to believe that the father didn't have a clue his kid was in trouble until this incident, but I've known plenty of parents who for whatever reason (self-absorption, high-powered career, stoned out of their own gourds, etc) have no clue what's really going on with their own kids living in their own house with them. If his own father didn't know that he was a good kid having a bad drug trip (if such was the case), I sure don't expect the officer responding to the call to know it. Once someone is threatening someone else with a deadly weapon, the situation gets real simple real fast.