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I'm still at work and in my boredom I turn, as one does, to the readers' feedback web page of the my parents' local paper in a very special corner of far north Qld.
Despite the general sadness of the tale of car damage recounted in the rant below, I really think the last line just rocks. I can see this reader working themselves into an apoplectic rage as they write and yet - the cruelty. The punishment - 'they should go and work for insurance companies' - is surely inhuman and the final chilling condemnation... well... I'll let other readers be the judge:
From: Peeved
Comment: In regards to school holiday antics! I was one of many people on Monday night with a smashed car window. A report said there was 33 Cars with windows smashed in the twin cities that night. It is going to cost me $476 to replace my back window. Times that by 33 and you have over $15,000 worth of damage done in one night. The police say this is a common occurance at Christmas time and there is nothing they can really do. This is discusting. Where are the parents? How do you get $15,000 out of an obviously unemployed, careless, selfish, pathetic excuse for a human being(s). They should go and work for insurance companies. But spare a thought for the people who scrimp and save to buy their kids and family something special for Christmas only to have it ruined the week before christmas with a $500 window repairs bill they didn't bloody need! I would `love!' and I mean `love' to find out who it was and go and smash $15,000 worth of windows at their (and parents) house/cars to teach them a lesson. Let's look a little deeper into how loving `parents' could raise such thoughtless/reckless child. I would like to know if by some chance the police got their hands on these people would they have to pay back that amount of damage or do they get a 'stern' talking to? I want justice! I want the person(s) charged and to pay for my wages lost and everyone else wages due to time lost organising repairs and cleaning up. Add that to the cost of total repairs this person(s) should pay back to the community – at least $20000. All in a good night's work! THESE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS!
It's filled a few chuckle minutes in my otherwise long afternoon. |
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