<p>Hey Hunt … you wouldn’t be on trial if you weren’t guilty! (jk)</p>
<p>What we have here is a classic example of “unintended consequences.” Is there a winner anywhere in this story?</p>
<p>^Ivy league school that would have taken this kid into its student body this fall?</p>
<p>Frightening story. Some years ago, I grounded, grounded, grounded my two young adult sons for a number of reasons, and they were fuming at being stuck at home on a weekend night. DH was out of town. I remember telling him that, “I’m doing just fine here with the Menendez brothers here.” I think I know exactly what happened there. It’s tough discipling older kids.</p>
<p>Yikes. And I think my D is being a bratty teen when she doesn’t say “thank you” after I drive her to her friend’s house.</p>
<p>ellemenope, you are right. I’m also thinking about the students who would have been her roommates or shared classes with her.<br>
I wonder if her high school was aware of her propensity for violent behavior. I find it hard to believe that someone erupts with this type of offense for the first time as a senior without a track record of earlier problems.</p>
<p>I think the mother needs to go to jail with the little brat she created. Kids don’t just come home and pistol whip mom out of the blue–she has obviously learned that this behavior is acceptable with her parents.</p>
<p>It appears that the young lady has a branch of her family up here in Connecticut.</p>
<p>[West</a> Hartford Police Investigate Mid-Afternoon Shooting - Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-shooting-0331-20110330,0,793112.story]West”>http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-shooting-0331-20110330,0,793112.story)</p>
<p>It is truly scary – I know a woman who is frightened for her mom. Her brother has some mental health issues & is living with the mom. The brother has threatened the woman, mom, and the woman’s son. The woman has had to keep her phone number & address from the mom & brother because she is afraid of him and what he might do to her & her son. No good answers but people with mental health issues can be quite unpredictable and SCARY!</p>
<p>There is a lot of entitlement constantly being broadcast by our media–all the shows showing lovely young people apparently subsisting in great apartments in expensive cities earning a living doing nothing–“Friends,” “Cheers,” and tons of other shows. There are many young (and not so young) people who confuse “needs” with “wants” and believe they DESERVE all sorts of things by virtue of being alive.</p>
<p>I am surprised the article had a photo & name of the girl–unless she’s 18 or above, they usually protect privacy. It’s pretty incindiary. (Dang my spelling is awful.)</p>
<p>Actually in “Cheers” they are all working. They all had jobs and it never showed them in nice cars. But that show was off the air even before I was in high school, if I recall correctly…</p>
<p>Still, there are a lot of movies, sitcoms & reality shows where the people all seem to have charmed lives but never seem to do much (if any) work & have great clothes, living situations, and all the rest but all they agonize is their dating/sex lives. This fuels the unrealistic expectations of people–in the US & elsewhere.</p>
<p>I think there are many worse examples than “Friends” - The Hills, Gossip Girls, Jersey Shore etc.</p>