Kids throw garbage in Sept. 11 memorial pool
Associated Press
Learning to ignore bad children and parenting is a painful but worthwhile endeavor, though it retards the advancement of civilization.
Despite my zen, I’m not sure I could have turned the other cheek if I’d observed junior high students tossing garbage into the reflecting pool at the September 11 Memorial in New York City.
Fox News reports one of the kids was detained by police for having bullets in his pockets.
“These kids just need to be educated about what happened there,” said New Yorker Anthoula Kastinatides, whose brother died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The kids were on a summer field trip with a Brooklyn public school. New York’s school chancellor said the students who threw garbage into the memorial, which opened Sept. 11, 2011, in Lower Manhattan, may be punished. The kid that had ammunition faces a police investigation.
And who knows, maybe a parent will get involved?
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118 comments Add your comment
DU WHUT!?
June 26th, 2012
5:58 pm
i just passed an air log and the chocolate is on the way now…..
creative
June 26th, 2012
6:00 pm
The comments keep getting funnier. Keep em coming. This is awesome. Angry…Very Angry
border dweller
June 26th, 2012
6:03 pm
This was reported by Faux “News”, which brings to point two issues: A) it probably didn’t happen, and B) the inadequate parents who raised these type of kids were home watching Faux “News”
creative
June 26th, 2012
6:33 pm
faux news…always a classic. anybody wanna throw in the Communist News Network. That’s always a good one.
Walter Little, Jr.
June 26th, 2012
7:39 pm
After reading this blog, I had to go and write my own blog about what they “kids” did and the comments made about their actions. Read my blog here:
http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1152181175402443983#editor/target=post;postID=7132344320908966973
creative
June 26th, 2012
8:29 pm
Life expectancy has also gone up when prayer was taken out of schools. Nice try at irony Meber. Maybe you should pretend to be racist to get a rise out of people as opposed to misspelling what. However, I like where your head’s at.
Dontaysha
June 27th, 2012
10:31 am
“…though it retards the advancement of civilization.”
Yeah, “retards” would seem to be the operative word here.
Al
July 2nd, 2012
10:36 pm
This is just not acceptable. What upsets me is that these kids do not realize what such a disrespectful thing they have done. I remember 9/11 and have a very close connection to what had happened at the Trade Center and I was only 5 years old at the time and I still remembered it. Being the last generation that remembers 9/11 I think that its very important to teach people who never witnessed this tragic event about what happened. I just don’t understand how anybody could disrespect the site.