It's time to play "Hero or Anti-Hero".... the subject?... an unidentified 14-year-old boy from Winnipeg. Here's the story...
Early Saturday morning, the boy got into an argument with his unidentified 31-year-old mother. Apparently she'd been up all night getting hammered, which was fine... until she grabbed the car keys and tried to DRIVE DRUNK. The boy didn't want his mom to get behind the wheel, so as she was running out the door with her car keys, he grabbed a KNIFE, threw it at her, and hit her in the back.
The woman was rushed to the hospital, where she's in stable condition. And the boy was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He's being held at a youth detention facility. According to a police spokesman, quote, "He took the car keys from her and the dispute started . . . She had been drinking and she wanted to drive, and he didn't want to let her. It started out he tried to protect her, but in the end injured her."
Okay, He DID go a little over the line, but this kid just MAY just have saved his IDIOT mother from KILLING herself, or, worse yet, killing some innocent person. Would the authorities have preferred he allow her to hit the road in the state she was in?!... Or did he go TOO far?... should he have let her go and called the cops to let THEM deal with it?
Discuss...
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I'm pretty sure the kid had good intentions, but, I think got caught up in the frustration of the moment and reacted in completely the wrong way. When it got to the point that it was clear she wasn't going to listen he should have just let her go and called the cops the moment the door shut behind her.
ReplyDeleteThis was a really tough situation for this kid. A knife? yeah really not a great choice, but what were his other options? Wait until mom took off and call 911? And while he was on hold mom could have already killed a family of four and herself. If he'd called 911 and it made her change her mind, he'd get charged with misusing the 911 system. Likely the better choice but I'm not sure he was sitting there weighing out his options at that point. Mother dearest put Junior in a rough spot, one I don't think he should have had to be in .
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