'I want to formally apologize' (for urinating on National War Memorial)

The Ottawa Citizen ^ | Saturday, July 08, 2006 | Kelly Roesler and Marissa Larouche-Smart

[Corin Stormhands]

I guess we can't all be perfect. Please tell us how you manage it.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

yupper..and that causes a "shrivel factor" faster than ice cold water in a swimmin pool..:-)

[pax_et_bonum]

His apology is admirable, and it's more than Cynthia McKinney did... or William Jefferson.... or Sandy Berger... etc...

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

Dr. Pilon said earlier this week he doesn't think the young men should be fined, saying he holds government officials responsible for not protecting the memorial.

This irritates me. It is not these boys fault. The government should be responsible. What a joke.
He is probably sorry he took the picture and got the poor boys in trouble. After all, they just needed to go to the bathroom. Why, anybody would do the same thing.

That is like saying it is my fault someone stole from me b/c I didn't protect it. Makes me want to scream.

[UCANSEE2]

Not only that, but they had parents who made them face the results of their actions.

These boys, in all probability, will have a new attitude about the law and public drunkenness, and personal responsibility.

Here, we seem to bail our children out, which falls under the category of 'spare the rod-spoil the child'.

The adversity these boys experienced from facing this, builds characer.

[cripplecreek]

I guess we can't all be perfect. Please tell us how you manage it.

Since you seem to be in such dire need of instruction, It's called respect and simple common sense. I've been a drunken teenager plenty of times but I still had the sense to know that something is a monument of some kind (Even if I didn't know why) and that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to piss on it. The punks who trashed a war memorial in Indianapolis last summer, did you pat them on the back too?

[OldFriend]

Totally agree with you. Too bad there are so many of our own dim wits who would never think to apologyze but blame everyone but themselves for their stupidity.

[AmericaUnited]

Okay, show of hands. Who hasn't been that drunk before?

Freeper HairOfTheDog imbibes adult beverages? No?!

[AmericaUnited]

Better question, who has pissed on a war memorial before?

You might have, if you've ever been that drunk before, and wandering around in public, unless you're the only person on the planet who can claim to be sober and cognizant while being comatose drunk.

[UCANSEE2]

Maybe your implication that they knew they were pissing on a War Memorial is true.

What do you bet these boys never do anything like this again?

I think they 'matured' a bit since this happened.

Taking responsibility is the first sign of maturity.

Much more mature than, (place name of any democratic politician or MSM figure here).

[Hildy]

The worst thing is the public scorn...do you remember the kid who got caned in the Philipines? Do you remember what he was most upset about? He was upset that his parents were making a big deal about it. Part of the punishment is the public ridicule...the kid got it, his American parents didn't.

[cripplecreek]

Nice try but I know better.

[cripplecreek]

What do you bet these boys never do anything like this again?

I'll bet they don't but I'm not going to praise them for doing what they were most likely told to do by an attorney.

[Eagles Talon IV]

The only thing this sh*thead along with the other sh*theads are sorry for is getting caught!

[Hot Tabasco]

I'm willing to accept his apology and the sentence.

"It's not easy knowing the entire country thinks you're a dim-wit."

...try the North American hemisphere dim wit! And 30 years from now you will still remember yourself as a dim wit and so will we. Some things people will never forget......LOL!

[Tennessee_Bob]

It was Singapore, but the point is the same.

[1rudeboy]

In a sense that is true, but not the way you mean it . . . if they hadn't been caught, they'd never remembered what to be sorry about.

[Hildy]

Nice try but I know better.

Yes...you do. At the age of 42 (I read your bio) I certainly hope so. But do you remember being a teenager? Sometimes you do stupid things...and if you do, hopefully you realize it, make the proper amends, and learn from it. Hopefully, this young man will be a better MAN because of this incident.

[Richard Kimball]

It sounds like they were so drunk they did not know what they were doing. Stupid, but I was that stupid many times in my youth. I urinated on my boss' fuse box and blew out all the lights in his house, once. It wasn't intentional, but I was too drunk to ask where the bathroom was, and went outside. I didn't want to make a spectacle of myself.

I'm just glad none of my adventures when I lived in New Orleans ended up on the front page of the paper.

[Hildy]

Yes, it was Singapore. When the kid finally spoke, he said he wished his parents would stop making such a big deal about it. It was very, very interesting.