[Menehune56]

Tragic but it does sound like a complete lack of parental control.

[Gertie]

My wife, God Bless Her, and I raised “4” teen age daughters during the early ‘80’s”. From that experience, I can tell you that there is absolutely “nothing” that a girl between the age of 13 - 18 could do that would surprise me!..

[JAKraig]

Tragic but it does sound like a complete lack of parental control. . . . . .

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Parental control?

Maybe, but in the wee hours of the morning if children quietly sneak out of the house the parents won’t even know about it.

I’m not saying that is what happened but when I was 15 I did it and also took a joy ride in a corvette that did not belong to me. A friend and I decided to see how fast it would go and wrecked it. Yeah we got in big trouble.

It turns out the person that left the keys in the corvette convertable in front of his house was trying to catch someone who was stealing cars from him, he was a car dealer.

I had a job, my dad had to pay for the car and I had to pay my dad, it was a lot of money in those days. It is the only Corvette I have ever bought and I only got to drive it once.

I feel sorry for the parents of these kids. When you do stupid stuff you have to be prepared to pay the price, sometimes the price is very, very high.