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From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (OrioleFan@uiuc)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 21:30:09 GMT
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tobias@convex.com (Allen Tobias) writes:

>In article <1993Apr15.024246.8076@Virginia.EDU> ejv2j@Virginia.EDU ("Erik Velapoldi") writes:
>>This happened about a year ago on the Washington DC Beltway.
>>Snot nosed drunken kids decided it would be really cool to
>>throw huge rocks down on cars from an overpass.  Four or five
>>cars were hit.  There were several serious injuries, and sadly
>>a small girl sitting in the front seat of one of them was struck 
>>in the head by one of the larger rocks.  I don't recall if she 
>>made it, but I think she was comatose for a month or so and 
>>doctors weren't holding out hope that she'd live.

	The girl's OK, actually, and she recovered well enough to go home.  I
don't know if she has any permanent damage, though.  Just in case anybody was
concerned...

>>
>>What the hell is happening to this great country of ours?  I
>>can see boyhood pranks of peeing off of bridges and such, but
>>20 pound rocks??!  Has our society really stooped this low??
>>
>>Erik velapold

	If people start forcing others to take responsibility for their actions
things like this wouldn't happen.  Untill we stop blaming outside causes, and
start blaming the criminals, we will continue to let things like this happen.


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