Craziness

There's a local news story that is rather horrific on so many levels.  A 17 year-old was told he couldn't have a party so naturally he felt the need to pick up a hammer and kill both his parents then have sixty kids over to 'par-tay' while mom and dad were dead under the tarp upstairs.  The local morning talk show idiots had to make that the drive into work call in segment so I got to hear how many other idiots did the same thing and what repercussions - if any - happened. 

My folks understood kids would have parties when the parents left on trips.  They'd and their friends done it when they were young as had their nieces and nephews at times.  Mom simply set down some ground rules.  No live bands (kiss of death in my neighborhood because the parties always ended up with hundreds of kids - we all used to cruise around listening for live music and then crash parties back in the day), no liquor for kids under 18 (hello remember Irish here....we grew up thinking nothing of alcohol so it wasn't a 'big deal' to us), car keys went in bowl and designated sober person would either yay or nay the kid leaving if not they had to crash at house, and most importantly make sure to invite the neighbors (cops were never called if your neighbors were asked to come over if they wanted).  We had some fun parties and cleaned up better than it was (I think that was why Mom let us do it because she knew our Irish guilt would make us clean up everything so she couldn't complain).  We respected our folks and their rules. 

Apparently that's rare.  The calls coming in were tales of sending out flyers and giving the gate codes to three local high schools then charging five bucks a pop at the door.  The 'kids' made over two grand....do the math that's a ton of kids who now had access to a gated community!  One of the dj's talking had just found his son had a party after being told he couldn't and he was angry that his new leather couch got messed up.  Other folks ranted and called about misuse and abuse by their kids.  A slice of the world I find sad.  There's so few 'safe' zones for kids and to hear kids violate their own homes with out regard to their parents wishes and their neighbors is just another sign of society's slow decline.