My 4:15 m Wake Up Call...

[planovet]

I see this happen every night I work my "other job". Hit and run accidents are getting more and more common. Either they are drunk or they have no insurance. Either way they tend to run rather than take responsibility.

Responded to a hit and run on Saturday night. Couple was sitting at a stop sign when a car rear ended them and took off. They were able to chase it for a couple of blocks before their car broke down. The hit and run driver was an adult male with a child inside. What a nice role model for the child.

[bobhenry]

Two weeks ago I had the bitter sweet job of helping to raze a little house my son and I had rehabed for his "tiny house" home. It was a 12x36 store front cottage. It had been darn near everything. The co op electric Co office , a cobbler shop , a doctors office, a pet grooming shop, and a plumbers office and shop to name just a few. He was able to purchase it for $9,000 and we put about $2,000 in it to replace and upgate plumbing and heating. He lived there a little over a year and a half. He then rented it out the next two years and finally sold it at a tidy profit. Well last fall it was attacked by a teenage driver who drove off the road over a hugh curb went airborn and slammed into the side of the house and moved it 15" off the foundation. The new owner had just let her insurance laps and the kid had no insurance so unable to repair the house the city condemed it and it had to come down. I knew the new owner and went up to help her son bring it down. It is so sad to see the plumbing electrical and cosmetic upgrades we worked so hard on reduced to rubble because of the irresponsibility of others.

[Miriam C.]

Brings back bad memories! My daughter's best friends brother died turning a corner driving too fast..... He hit a tree and left the front end at the tree---the motor on the porch of the house 5' away---the rest of the car continued another hundred feet...When it stopped he fell out in a fetal position...

The owner cut the tree down...third time a kid was seriously hurt there... She just couldn't take it anymore...

Now this kid was raised right! Totally responsible parents and normally so was he...I think he was 18......Don't know how to keep them from doing it.

[CAJUN LADY]

You can't stop a kid from doing stupid shi#. We all did it - some of us got stupid lucky - some didn't. We all have a bit of dare devil in us but common sense doesn't always kick in when you need it.

[Mightydog]

We all have a bit of dare devil in us but common sense doesn't always kick in when you need it.

That sounds like the beginning of a good story.

I hope your catch up to your crazy driver, CD.

[Lou Park]

You can't stop a kid from doing stupid shi#. We all did it

Do tell.

[S. Heisley]

A few months ago, I read that the last part of the brain to fully develop is the part that gives us good judgment. Supposedly, it doesn't finish development until a person is somewhere around 28 years old.

Based on the passage below, I'd give a guess that it may have been that way since the beginning of time:

"Oh, Lord....Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth!" (Personally butchered from Psalm 25 )

Most all of us have done stupid things and can shake our heads, smile, and say, "What was I thinking?!" We've just been lucky to arrive at true adulthood, relatively in one piece. That said, sometimes we can manage to learn a lesson earlier than age 28. Some of us may still need corrections at 68.

[CAJUN LADY]

You can't stop a kid from doing stupid shi#. We all did it

Do tell.

Lou, Southern ladies don't kiss and tell........and they don't do stupid shi# and tell either.

[Shadow Catcher]

Sharon
It is the prefrontal cortex and it is why teens are truly, as we long suspected brain dead. One reason they make good soldiers they can not conceive of consequences. It is not part of the hard wiring till it is completely developed about age 26. Our task as parents is to try and keep them from doing things that are going to have disastrous consequences till then.

I was working on a project for school (part of my internship) in figuring out how to teach the elderly how to use computers, and for that I figured I needed to know how the brain does, and does not work as we age. We have two types of memory Crystallized memory which is sort of your hard drive and Fluid memory which is your ram, and I wrote a paper titled my fluid memory is leaking. The bad news is that that your fluid memory starts to deteriorate around age 26 and accelerates around age 60. the good news is that your ability to put together disparate pieces of information improves.

[Alan Wood]

Reminds me of when we got back from Easter Vacation in the 70's when I was a kid.


The garage doors had been pushed back several feet and the only reason the driver was alive was because we were on vacation! Otherwise they would have hit the gas tank of the mustang!

That time the police were able to track the driver down by the trail of bricks leading to his driveway.