[Newsbot]

Title: Florida teens who recorded drowning and laughed could be charged
Category: World
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2017-07-22 11:15:00

[Strutz]

What a pathetic representation of their generation.

[Canadian_Mind]

More like an accurate representation..

[fifeboy]

I was born in 1949, so not part of this generation. I assure you that this attitude is NOT exclusive to todays youth. I had a classmate in high school who, after being the first on scene at a bad traffic accident, refused to help and later complained that nobody had died. Deplorable behaviour is found in every generation.

[raydan]

Every generation thinks that the one following them is the worst.

One thing about this generation though, because of social media, we get to see so much more of their bad behaviour.

[shockedcanadian]

Youth are always stupid and follow others. Its why undercover police salivate after going after teenagers, they are easy prey for their predatory tactics. Not unlike creeps and other perverts in the world, they seek out these easy targets for their advance and justify their existence when they should be flipping burgers.

This was a particularly absurd action though because it required recording the guy drowning while they laughed. There is also though another possibility, I throw this out there without any reading of this; that they might not have even believed the guy was drowning, they could have felt they were "being trolled", or messed around with. There is also the fact that judging from the video, the guy seemed quite far out in the water, so how they could save him is questionable, or, they figured, "he got out there, he should be able to swim back".

There is also the very unfortunate reality of our society that does not hold people accountable, nor have any moral code, what if he was trying to lure them into a trap to cause them harm? Today's society doesn't get involved because they fear for their own safety, or even being sued for not being successful! If they had reached out to him and he drowned, they might find they have been sued for something or even blamed for his drowning.

Indeed it's a messed up world.

[BRAH]

FFS!

[Strutz]

raydan raydan:

Every generation thinks that the one following them is the worst.

One thing about this generation though, because of social media, we get to see so much more of their bad behaviour.

I don't necessarily agree with your first remark. I know every generation has faults including mine and those before me and those after me. There always have been and always will be people who don't deserve to share this planet with those of us who would never consider behavior such as this or commit harm against others for no reason whatsoever.

Your second remark is more along what I was thinking when I made my post. I guess I should have made myself more clear. It's the sharing on such a grand scale that is awful to me. Social media has it's positive spin in the sense of educating and creating awareness. But situations like these are horrid when shared. Imagine being related or friends with this victim... how horrifying. It is more the younger generation (teens, early 20's) that have grown up with social media being natural to them to use and sometimes abuse.

[BartSimpson]

These little shitstains are not going to get away with this.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pol ... ng-n785581

[BeaverFever]

Tell me the decision to NOT lay charges has nothing to do with the fact it's Florida and the victim looked like this:



Something tells me that if the drowning victim looked more like Gwynneth Paltrow and came from at least a middle class family the authorities would have found a way to send these shitbags to jail for a long time.

[martin14]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Tell me the decision to NOT lay charges has nothing to do with the fact it's Florida and the victim looked like this:

Aww, you poor baby, here's some reality for you.

$1:

"Ain't nobody going to help you, you dumb bitch. You shouldn't have got in there," one of the boys says.

When Jamel Dunn, 31, slips beneath the water, a voice can be heard saying "he dead" and there is laughing.

The quality of the ebonics suggests the kids looked a lot like Dunn.