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Post by andy on Mar 9, 2024 18:42:28 GMT
There is a picture of a Japanese older woman bathing her grown up daughter who has been very badly harmed (almost completely wasted away) by mercury poisoning (from tainted fish, iirc). It is in a book of photojournalism I have. I'm not going to look it up because I have to skip those pages as it inspires in me a mixture of tears of sympathy and anger at the bastards who caused and got away with the poisoning. TMI? Minamata - W Eugene Smith. This one? collections.artsmia.org/art/4677/tomoko-uemura-is-bathed-by-her-mother-w-eugene-smith |
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Post by aitch on Mar 9, 2024 18:49:54 GMT
Yes.
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Post by willien on Mar 9, 2024 19:24:49 GMT
Indeed. I saw this yesterday on a newspaper site that allows comments. I didn't comment myself but most comments were making assumptions about the background of the offender. What struck me was that there was no suggestion of dangerous driving and that the police were surprised to find an eleven year old at the wheel. The driver also had the sense to stop rather try to make a run for it. Sure offences have been committed. The driver is likely to be found guilty.
I wonder at the guilt of this young offender's parents. There might well be a young bright child's future set to a life of crime by its background and not its innate morality.
According to the Beeb the charges include dangerous driving. |
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Post by andy on Mar 9, 2024 19:35:28 GMT
Indeed. I saw this yesterday on a newspaper site that allows comments. I didn't comment myself but most comments were making assumptions about the background of the offender. What struck me was that there was no suggestion of dangerous driving and that the police were surprised to find an eleven year old at the wheel. The driver also had the sense to stop rather try to make a run for it. Sure offences have been committed. The driver is likely to be found guilty.
I wonder at the guilt of this young offender's parents. There might well be a young bright child's future set to a life of crime by its background and not its innate morality.
According to the Beeb the charges include dangerous driving. Was that just for driving a beemer?  |
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Post by spinno on Mar 9, 2024 20:28:28 GMT
According to the Beeb the charges include dangerous driving. Was that just for driving a beemer? Causing a caravan to be towed? |
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Post by willien on Mar 9, 2024 20:31:11 GMT
Was that just for driving a beemer? Causing a caravan to be towed? Being an Anorak without a licence? |
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Post by spinno on Mar 9, 2024 20:41:10 GMT
Causing a caravan to be towed? Being an Anorak without a licence? Did he(the driver) have a booster seat? It was a pretty sophisticated theft as they used cloned number plates on the car. I have my suspicions as to the background of the perpetrator but of course that makes me judgemental. |
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Post by JohnY on Mar 9, 2024 20:54:22 GMT
The Torygraph just omitted the dangerous driving bit. I got the impression of a smart kid being destroyed by a criminal background and upbringing.
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Post by andy on Mar 9, 2024 21:36:47 GMT
The Torygraph just omitted the dangerous driving bit. I got the impression of a smart kid being destroyed by a criminal background and upbringing. Or the kid is being taken advantage of. There have been stories of drug distributors using kids to move stuff around. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 10, 2024 8:10:15 GMT
The Torygraph just omitted the dangerous driving bit. I got the impression of a smart kid being destroyed by a criminal background and upbringing. Or the kid is being taken advantage of. There have been stories of drug distributors using kids to move stuff around. Mrs S just pointed out that the lad wouldn't go to prison whereas an adult probably would. |
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Post by zou on Mar 10, 2024 18:08:33 GMT
Not quite stopped dead but I saw a great image this morning from Gaza - parachuted 'aid' packages falling alongside airstrikes, both supplied by the same nation.
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