Ok, I'm Pissed

Shocking, I know.

Anyway, I see via Xrlq that folks in California have zero respect for human life:

Inaction in boy's killing called justified

The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son to death on a rural road.

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she was the first to pull up to the beating scene with her boyfriend, a volunteer fire chief who is 52, as well as her 20-year-old son, her son's wife and her son's male friend.

Sounds like there were two people there physically able to do something.

"We were looking for rocks or boards on the ground, just to knock him out, get him under control. But we couldn't find anything,"

Two words: tire iron. there were at least two cars there. A tire iron (or jack) would have been available. A nice old-timey jack would have been perfect. 3 feet of pure metal whupass.

The article goes on to make every excuse imaginable for the people who stood around and watched a young child die.

Can they be blamed? I don't know. But, as Xrlq puts it:

Excusable? Maybe, at least in a nation of cowards like Cali where no one has the means to take him out from a safe distance. But justified? Never

What would I have done? I don't know, of course. I wasn't there. But, I can say I've "been there" before, and yes, I did take action (war story alert).

I wonder how those people feel now, knowing what they didn't do caused a young boy his life? That would be hard.

(war story below the fold)

It was back in Munich in 1982, during Oktoberfest. A guy had his girlfriend pinned to a wall and was slapping the shit out of her, back and forth.

Me and another guy I didn't know were on him like white on rice. I didn't even think, I was there before I knew it. Kinda dumb, in hindsight.

The other guy, being an officer, took charge after we got him off her. Fine by me, I went back to the beer tent. Funny how, out of the thousands of people there, it was two GIs who stepped in.