Irresponsibile Stupidity, Times Two
It's amazing what you see when you ride the public transit system. I don't know if this is because those who use the public transit are usually the poor, uneducated and those who are generally shit on by society, or if it's because public transit just sucks. In either case, you see people. Although I usually rant about how shitty Kalifornia is, I think that the two things I saw today are more a symptom of the corruption and decay of urban life in america in general. Of course, Kalifornia still blows goats.
Waiting by the bus stop today, I saw two girls, maybe 12 years old, walking down the sidewalk, obviously from some fair because their faces were painted with glitter and one had a balloon. Now, this in itself is nothing astounding. However, you must consider where I live. I am poor. I must keep my expenses down and therefore live in an area of town that I wouldn't if I could afford not to. This is an area of town where I have nearly been attacked, witnessed a gang fight, and more drug deals than I care to remember. It is not the worst area of town, and it certainly isn't the west side of Oakland. It is not, however, a place where two pre-teen girls have any business walking alone. My bus stop is on a corner of an an abandoned school that serves as a shelter for the homeless, across the street from a liquor store, and next to a gas station that constantly smells like burning weed. I saw these two girls walking down the street, being ogled by the homeless men, and two other very seedy looking asian men walking down the street, and wondered where their parents were. As one of the asian men turned to leer backward at the girls, I simultaneously began thinking of what kind of society allows parents to have such little responsibility for their children and how fast I could push the asian guy in front of oncoming traffic if he made a move for one of the girls.
We should not have to live in a place where we have to fear for our children's safety. We should be able to send our children to the store to get something, and should be able to let our children play after dark. We should not have to live in fear of the darkness in the city, and our worst fears in an urban environment should come from raccoons overturning our garbage and traffic lights that malfunction. Sadly, this is not the case. In some places, especially in rural areas, parents don't have to worry about their children being attacked, except maybe by a coyote. Why are our cities such shit? The scum of the earth is attracted to the metropolis. Why people like cities for the 'culture' is beyond me. While we should not have to face these problems, we do have to face them. And since we have to face them, we need to be responsible for our children.
I found out where these girls had wandered from. As I rode the bus up the street, about 3 blocks up was the grand opening of a Jewish temple where a fair-like event was going on. I'm sure the kids came from here. Did their parents not tell them to not wander off? What the hell? Those kids could wind up raped and/or dead, and then people would bitch about how we need stricter laws and more survellience. Bullshit. Take more responsibility for your kids. You chose to live in this shithole called Berkeley, so be fucking responsible and make sure your kids don't wander off. You think some country folk go off telling the local sherriff how he should have been out shooting more coyotes if they leave their kids out in the field alone and they get attacked by coyotes? Fuck no. Why? Because people in the country take some fucking responsibility. They either don't leave their kids there alone in the first place, or if they get attacked, realize it was their own damn irresponsible fault. At least they understand it was part of nature. But you think their kids are going to be attacked by some pervert? No. Why? Because the communities out there are tight knit. People talk to each other. You know what would happen if some child molester showed up in one of those towns? People would stop and talk to him and ask where he's from and what he's doing there, and they wouldn't let him out of their sight until he left. Or they'd just shoot him if they didn't want to deal with it. People here won't even look at you if you pass them on the street much less molest some little kid. I doubt anyone here would have done anything had someone grabbed one of the little girls.
Which brings me to my next amazing incident on public transit today. Riding home today, I am sitting on the back of the bus near all the gang graffitti when two girls get on the bus and start talking to a HS male who's sitting to my left. The male has a fat lip, but no other discernable calamaties. They begin talking to each other, and the guy brings up the fact that he got in a fight after school today, which is where he got his fat lip. He tells this with some male machoistic bravado, like he's proud of it. One of the girls asks what happened, and he relates the story. Apparently, on his way home, some kids on the street were throwing things at them and they got into a fight. OK, well, seems reasonable, especially as he only has a fat lip and no big injuries. Seems like a scuffle. Anyway, one of the girls asks "Did they jump you?" and then the details come out. Apparently he was walking home, and some kindergarteners (he specifically mentioned 'kindergarteners' several times) were playing in the mud and threw some mud at him. So he beat the crap out of 7 of them. One of them managed to smack him in the lip as he picked him up. Way to go, asshole, you can beat up kindergarteners. Guess what? A fucking cripple can beat up kindergarteners, and he'd still be an asshole for doing it. If I saw a big high school kid (and this kid was like 6' and 200lbs) beating up some kindergarteners, I don't give a shit if the kindergarteners were trying to stab him with swords, I'd beat the high schooler until blood ran out his ears. If I had a gun, he'd be lying in a pool of his own blood in the street. There is no reason to beat up little kids. The amazing thing to me was the reaction of the girls: "Did you get 'em?" Like, what, he was going to get his ass beat by seven 4-year olds? Congratulations, you've just earned 'fuck off of the year' award. We wonder why our cities are so bad when there's people like this out there. We really need some kind of educational system that teaches instead of putting a rubber stamp on idiots like this.
So when you let your kids out at night on the wrong side of tracks and they get the shit kicked out of them by an asshole who likes to beat up kindergarteners, it's your fucking fault. Take some responsibility for your actions, and if you see some asshole beating up kindergarteners, take some community responsibility and go crush his skull with a baseball bat. The police will be on your side, trust me.
Waiting by the bus stop today, I saw two girls, maybe 12 years old, walking down the sidewalk, obviously from some fair because their faces were painted with glitter and one had a balloon. Now, this in itself is nothing astounding. However, you must consider where I live. I am poor. I must keep my expenses down and therefore live in an area of town that I wouldn't if I could afford not to. This is an area of town where I have nearly been attacked, witnessed a gang fight, and more drug deals than I care to remember. It is not the worst area of town, and it certainly isn't the west side of Oakland. It is not, however, a place where two pre-teen girls have any business walking alone. My bus stop is on a corner of an an abandoned school that serves as a shelter for the homeless, across the street from a liquor store, and next to a gas station that constantly smells like burning weed. I saw these two girls walking down the street, being ogled by the homeless men, and two other very seedy looking asian men walking down the street, and wondered where their parents were. As one of the asian men turned to leer backward at the girls, I simultaneously began thinking of what kind of society allows parents to have such little responsibility for their children and how fast I could push the asian guy in front of oncoming traffic if he made a move for one of the girls.
We should not have to live in a place where we have to fear for our children's safety. We should be able to send our children to the store to get something, and should be able to let our children play after dark. We should not have to live in fear of the darkness in the city, and our worst fears in an urban environment should come from raccoons overturning our garbage and traffic lights that malfunction. Sadly, this is not the case. In some places, especially in rural areas, parents don't have to worry about their children being attacked, except maybe by a coyote. Why are our cities such shit? The scum of the earth is attracted to the metropolis. Why people like cities for the 'culture' is beyond me. While we should not have to face these problems, we do have to face them. And since we have to face them, we need to be responsible for our children.
I found out where these girls had wandered from. As I rode the bus up the street, about 3 blocks up was the grand opening of a Jewish temple where a fair-like event was going on. I'm sure the kids came from here. Did their parents not tell them to not wander off? What the hell? Those kids could wind up raped and/or dead, and then people would bitch about how we need stricter laws and more survellience. Bullshit. Take more responsibility for your kids. You chose to live in this shithole called Berkeley, so be fucking responsible and make sure your kids don't wander off. You think some country folk go off telling the local sherriff how he should have been out shooting more coyotes if they leave their kids out in the field alone and they get attacked by coyotes? Fuck no. Why? Because people in the country take some fucking responsibility. They either don't leave their kids there alone in the first place, or if they get attacked, realize it was their own damn irresponsible fault. At least they understand it was part of nature. But you think their kids are going to be attacked by some pervert? No. Why? Because the communities out there are tight knit. People talk to each other. You know what would happen if some child molester showed up in one of those towns? People would stop and talk to him and ask where he's from and what he's doing there, and they wouldn't let him out of their sight until he left. Or they'd just shoot him if they didn't want to deal with it. People here won't even look at you if you pass them on the street much less molest some little kid. I doubt anyone here would have done anything had someone grabbed one of the little girls.
Which brings me to my next amazing incident on public transit today. Riding home today, I am sitting on the back of the bus near all the gang graffitti when two girls get on the bus and start talking to a HS male who's sitting to my left. The male has a fat lip, but no other discernable calamaties. They begin talking to each other, and the guy brings up the fact that he got in a fight after school today, which is where he got his fat lip. He tells this with some male machoistic bravado, like he's proud of it. One of the girls asks what happened, and he relates the story. Apparently, on his way home, some kids on the street were throwing things at them and they got into a fight. OK, well, seems reasonable, especially as he only has a fat lip and no big injuries. Seems like a scuffle. Anyway, one of the girls asks "Did they jump you?" and then the details come out. Apparently he was walking home, and some kindergarteners (he specifically mentioned 'kindergarteners' several times) were playing in the mud and threw some mud at him. So he beat the crap out of 7 of them. One of them managed to smack him in the lip as he picked him up. Way to go, asshole, you can beat up kindergarteners. Guess what? A fucking cripple can beat up kindergarteners, and he'd still be an asshole for doing it. If I saw a big high school kid (and this kid was like 6' and 200lbs) beating up some kindergarteners, I don't give a shit if the kindergarteners were trying to stab him with swords, I'd beat the high schooler until blood ran out his ears. If I had a gun, he'd be lying in a pool of his own blood in the street. There is no reason to beat up little kids. The amazing thing to me was the reaction of the girls: "Did you get 'em?" Like, what, he was going to get his ass beat by seven 4-year olds? Congratulations, you've just earned 'fuck off of the year' award. We wonder why our cities are so bad when there's people like this out there. We really need some kind of educational system that teaches instead of putting a rubber stamp on idiots like this.
So when you let your kids out at night on the wrong side of tracks and they get the shit kicked out of them by an asshole who likes to beat up kindergarteners, it's your fucking fault. Take some responsibility for your actions, and if you see some asshole beating up kindergarteners, take some community responsibility and go crush his skull with a baseball bat. The police will be on your side, trust me.
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