Monday, June 14, 2010

Sad Guam

Just went to the Pacific Daily News website and there are sad stories - a 19-year-old drunk driver ran over a bicyclist; a man tried to burn his wife alive because he thought she might be cheating on him. As sad as the events, are the comments about them on the website: people saying that the woman shouldn't have been cheating; the bicyclist shouldn't have been on the road. 

UPDATE: Even more sad news. The big story last week was about a boy who died because he fell out of the back of his mom's truck and was run over by a car driven by his godmother. Apparently it's illegal to let children ride in truck beds here, but people do it anyways. In this case, the story took a while to get straight because the family initially lied to the cops about the circumstances. And the parents turned out to be criminals already: the dad was in jail for attempted robbery, and the mom had been implicated as the getaway driver in a scheme where her boyfriend dressed like a cop and tied up and robbed an old lady in her home. The unbelievably sad story gets worse, though: today's news reports that the family on Guam is unable to bury the little boy, and his grandmother, away in the United States, is begging the people of Guam to help raise the money to see that his soul is laid to rest. 



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