On my usual drive to work, although twas an early shift this morning, I was listening to Radio Bristol (not my choice, I prefer my Radio Two as you well know). They were carrying a story about a woman in Kingswood who died after drinking whilst on perscription medication. Ok that sounds a daft thing to do but we have all done it I am sure (don’t try it with anti-biotics, it stops them working and makes you throw up almost instantly). The girls mother was calling for “more obvious information on the packaging to stop this happening again”. Yes, the usual “My family is right, the rest of the world is wrong and I am not taking responsibility for anything, ever” phrase appears. You all know this line which is generally trotted out by people like Tony Blair, relatives of retarded Westonians who have driven off the toll road, lawyers who represent the criminally stupid when suing supermarkets because they tripped over a nine foot tall orange display. But surprisingly this isn’t where I was heading…
The thing which HADN’T been mentioned was that said 22 year old had also knocked back ectasy AND the bit that REALLLLLLY gets my dander up, that she had left halfway through this binge to pick up her three year old kid.! How fucking disgraceful is that.? Whacked off her tits and looking after a toddler. Disgusting. What a great example of a mother.
Then you look around and see that the four women sentenced for forcing two under five’s to fight on camera have got off with community service. Where as a man who was putting up dogs for fighting has been jailed. Why the disparity.? Yes, dog fight man should have been jailed and was but these four women should ALSO have been jailed. Do gooders on the radio earlier were saying “They need help not jail”, errr why do they need help.? If you FORCE a kid to fight another one, in the grans words “to toughen them up” then you are commiting an act tantamount to child abuse.! You don’t sit there thinking, “this is alright, no harm, no foul”, you know it’s wrong and you are risking being punished. The mother has had her child taken away from her, ANOTHER child in this damn country that needs councilling, but the four of them should ALL be jailed for taking part in something so obviously wrong that “help” isn’t a word that could even be contemplated.
And finally a motorcyclist who ran into a 12 year old boy has rightfully been granted compensation against the dead child who was playing chicken on a 70mph dual carriageway. Now THAT is justice going right for a change.! And survival of the fittest.