Generation Y

A 15 year old student, Josie Ratley, was badly beaten on school grounds by another teen (Wayne Treacy) who has never even met her.
Josie's injuries landed her in a coma and she had to undergo surgery to remove bits of her skull twice because of her brain's swelling.
She had only recently regained consciousness.

The whole thing started when her friend, Kayla Mason- who does not have a mobile phone, started using Josie's phone to send text messages to her boyfriend, Wayne.

Josie, who does not approve of Kayla's relationship with Wayne, told Wayne (reportedly, rudely) that she does not like him and made some inappropriate references to Wayne's older brother who had committed suicide (Wayne was the one who first found his brother's body hanging from a tree) via SMS.

Reportedly, Wayne got so angry, he put on his steel toed boots and rode 3 miles to the school- On the way, sending text messages to his friends saying that he'll kill Josie.

When he reached the school, Kayla pointed out Josie to Wayne and he attacked her by assaulting her head numerous times before a teacher managed to tear him away.

Wayne was recently charged as an adult for attempted murder.
He shall be carted off to an adult prison.

Cases like these gives our generation a BAD reputation.
We're not all like this.. (Though I do admit that we have some bad seeds in the bunch)
I feel kinda bad reading all the feed-backs from the reports.
the comments can basically be interpreted as;
"The young generation is SO fucked up!"

Which is a grossly unfair assumption to make.
To say that ALL TEENS nowadays do not have 'restraint' or 'common sense' is a tad too harsh don't you think?
Even I can safely say that this is a one-off case.
And for what it's worth, both of these kids have this commin'..
One is just plain rude and inconsiderate (ever heard of the phrase "think before you speak"??) while the other is a violent hot-headed punk.
Bad seeds indeed.







Am sorry but I'm not in a very forgiving mood.
call me cruel, but I'm having hard time feeling any sympathy to either of them.

God, I need sleep.