[marktwain]

“they waited to charge himso they wouldn’t have to pay the medical bills.”

That is what I understood the reason to be. The bills still get paid from tax money, though. I suppose that if he had any assets, he could be billed this way, where if he were arrested he might not be liable for the bill.

[Red Badger]

I suppose that if he had any assets,

If he had any assets he wouldn't have had to beat his father.................