Double Flee A

The big news story today is about a couple of kids in Idaho who went missing and now the girl's turned up. The story so far is that the brother might be dead, which is very sad. The girl was identified and found with the kidnapper in a Denny's restaurant in her hometown of Coeur D'Alene, a town I have actually spent some happy days in. It's beautiful up there. I'm sure the town is swarming with news crews who are sharpening ther knives, ready to turn this family's lives into another media cannibalization. Yay.

Anyway, the guy who kidnapped her and her brother is a sex offender from Fargo. He was facing charges of molesting a six-year-old boy here in Minnesota and, if I read between the lines correctly, skipped some quasi-complicated legal mandate which made him officially a wanted man. It looks very much as if he might be guilty of perpetrating this and possibly other sexual acts against these minors, which makes me scrunch up my face. I have a problem with people doing this sort of thing. Not only is child molestation obviously a pretty clear mark of criminal insanity, but it's really easy not to do! And have you ever considered how much there is that's going on in the world that WON'T get you thrown in jail to be sodomized by gangs of stinky people with aids and hepatitis c? There's pretty much everything in the world, other than one thing, that you can still do!

Here is a very short list of things for potential child molesters to do, instead of kidnapping and sexualizing children, which frankly, has to take a lot of imagination and is a poor time expenditure:

Learn to fold the perfect paper airplane.
Join a bridge club.
Master the ancient art of Tai Chi.
Invent something.
Build a house.
Get drunk and make obscene phone calls.
Read a book.
Stare off into space.
Teach yourself Latin.
Begin to see things that aren't there.
Work out.
Collect interesting-looking stones.
Compile a list of reluctant objects.
Join that obnoxious art movement that is all about Andre the giant having a posse.
Write four hundred songs about tater tots, then four hundred more about joining an army from outer space.
Shit, man, do anything, anything other than molesting children.

Idaho Girl Found; Brother Feared Dead - Yahoo! News

posted by dale @ 11:33 PM