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Old 06-04-2008, 11:53 PM
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Strange teenage accidents in Lafayette

Two things happened in the past few days here which can be marked up to kids using poor judgment:

1. A bunch of kids were huffing in a car (inhaling air freshner I believe). One decided to light a cigarette. There was so much freshener in the air the car exlpoded and blew the windows out. The kids are in the hospital with burns, two of them critical, I think.

Its hard to believe kids will risk their brains this way.

2. Three kids in a car, the driver at least, drunk, run off the road and hit a guardrail on the end. The two kids on the right side of the car are impaled on the guardrail which went through the entire car (more or less).

Another case of kids thinking they are invincible and can do anything without consequences.

Tragic for their families.

Things like these always are humbling as a parent. I always feel extremely Blessed that nothing too bad has ever happened to my kids.

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I agree, I'd consider huffing to be even more stupid than doing IV heroin or something. At least with heroin, you're not necessarily killing brain cells unless you OD. With most inhalants, you're wiping out your oxygen supply = cell death.

Ideally of course, you're doing neither of those.
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Why don't they just drink beer and smoke weed like kids did when I was that age?
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Old 06-05-2008, 07:56 AM
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Damn, that's sad. I used to do a lot of stupid things as a kid but they sure seem tame compared to what kids these days get themselves into. Things like these always worry me. I guess all you can do is teach your kids right and wrong and keep your fingers crossed that they do the right thing if/when the situation arises.
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Old 06-05-2008, 08:30 AM
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Yeah, what I did seems pretty tame too. But I still could have died plenty of times.

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Old 06-05-2008, 09:01 AM
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The feeling of invincibility for youth must programmed into the DNA. No way to avoid it. You just hope they make to adulthood.
One of the best quotes I ever heard on raising children was by James Dobson (before he became politically involved). He said some to the effect, " The MOST important thing about adolesence is that both parent and child survive. Anything else is a bonus."
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Old 06-05-2008, 09:48 AM
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Why don't they just drink beer and smoke weed like kids did when I was that age?
No doubt! Huffing air freshener???!! That's crazy.
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Old 06-05-2008, 10:55 AM
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No doubt! Huffing air freshener???!! That's crazy.
Nah. Freon is too expensive now!
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I guess I am glad to have grown up hanging out on farms a lot, because siphoning gas and diesel took any curiosity I ever had a bout sniffing or huffing anything right away.
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I guess I am glad to have grown up hanging out on farms a lot, because siphoning gas and diesel took any curiosity I ever had a bout sniffing or huffing anything right away.
Yeah I never got the attraction to that one! A mouthfull of 2 stroke gas will fix that problem for ya!

Some kids are dumb, I never did any of that carzy stuff, none of my friends did either.

The drinking and driving really is tragic around here. They always seem to be slamming into poles or guardrails at 2am in the morning doing three or four times the speed limit. In the past 18 months their has been three really bad accidents that I can think of off the top of my head, all resulting in deaths.
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Tom, I don't know why kids do these things. Some may have a fatalistic view of life, today, that's easy as there seems to be less for these kids to live for and the future looks bleak, so who cares? Kids just do stupid things.

I feel for them and wish I could help them not do some of these things, somehow...

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Old 06-05-2008, 11:38 AM
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I guess I am glad to have grown up hanging out on farms a lot, because siphoning gas and diesel took any curiosity I ever had a bout sniffing or huffing anything right away.

Yum. . .R.U.G. . .Ive been there. . .Kids these days are way dumber then a generation or two ago. . .I should have died many times for some of the shyt that I did, but it was all a learning experience, and I still have all ten fingers and toes. . .
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Too bad they are still alive and being fixed up from their mistakes on somebody else's coin.
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:29 PM
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Damn, that's sad. I used to do a lot of stupid things as a kid but they sure seem tame compared to what kids these days get themselves into. Things like these always worry me. I guess all you can do is teach your kids right and wrong and keep your fingers crossed that they do the right thing if/when the situation arises.

Yep,

If your'e raising kids today and you get them to age 18, educated, free of drugs and disease, and (for daughters) without getting pregnant, you have done about all you can.

I'm am sooooooo glad to be through the "2am phone call" worry years!

Beer. Cheaper than Gas! Drink Beer. Don't Drive!

You know, if I'd have done something that stupid like lighting a match and then blew out the car widows, my father would have given me a serious ass whippin for being so STOOPID! (And if he was away, my mother would have done it. Her favorite implement was a stainless steel Army surplus serving 18" serving spoon. Ouch!)

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