is wrong with sending positive thoughts for a familiy in crisis? I don't even live near PTC 1bighammer. I never condoned the kids behavior, just feel for the parent who is seeking to get some help.
Allow me to have compassion without putting me down please.

First of all what this kid did is not ok at all. It is not ok but it his behavior is typical of PTC kids. These kids are by far the most troubled, attention seeking, foulmouthed, ungrateful, destructive brats I have seen. Except for the Watts district in LA I really have not seen this many kids in one area this bad.

What his mother did was the right thing. She called the cops. Many parents here in good ol PTC are bullied and beaten by their kids. You know what they do??? NOTHING! They bow down instead of giving the kid a good spanking. 16 is not to old to spank. Before $ gets started I don't mean beating, I said spanking and that is what I meant.

This kid is where he belongs....jail. I have probably been the most vocal and venomous critic of the bad kids here. I don't know where you are coming from. You have to praise the good parents who do the right thing. This parent did the right thing. She called the cops. I am not a parent by choice. They take too much work, I already have one full-time job I don't need another. I like nice things and I like to travel.

My Yes, she did the right thing by calling the cops. But to come on here and make excuses like, " it was barely over an ounce", or "As far as "a large quantity of drugs", this is overstated. As far as "packaging ready to sell, just before school starts", there were empty small bags."

Hello,over an ounce is alot and small empty bags is just what they use to divide it up into for resale. Also, of the 1600 cash found $1000 of it was payment for a car, what about the other $600? What teenager has $600 dollars laying around.

He's where he should be...in Jail. Maybe it will help him make better decisions when he gets out.

You shouldn't have any. Thank goodness you didn't!
Take your money with you into the casket.

Many people are having kids by accident or as a reflex, because they think they should. They have made big mistakes.

Take satan's child in my neighborhood. This kid has had his parents tell him he was a mistake and they are sorry they had him(sometimes we all hear it because they are loud). He is a bad kid, but that bad kid didn't ask to be born. His parents made a mistake and he is paying for it. That's not right.

People should know their limits and live within them. The world would be a better place.

I'll give my money to some worthy charity.

That's so very sad about that child. I just wish that wasn't so. I hate to listen to stories about kids that are abused like that or are not wanted or abandoned. God I wish I could duplicate myself along with other caring persons and give these kids a loving family.

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Conservatism – apply it directly to the forehead.

I was trying to explain to dollar how selfish it is to have kids you don't want.

Some people say that those of us who choose not to have kids are selfish. I disagree. I think it is selfish to have kids or pets you don't have time for. Kids and pets aren't yard ornaments. If you don't have the time for them you are the one being selfish by having them.

It is sad. As much as I complain about that kid, he has been dealt a bad hand by selfish people.

she didn't say car payment, she said payment of a car, I took it tto mean a whole car.

I yam what I yam...Popeye

Problems such as are stated above would indeed be relieved if we had the Israeli form of service before college or technical training.
Yes, it would be the draft except everyone goes, no exceptions for the training, some then would do civil work to fulfill their obligations to their country.