http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/hypothermiadeath

The recent storms in California were a mere inconvenience for most of us. A few worried about mudslides after the annual fires, driving fatalities went up and a few space heater/ barb-b-que deaths.
But all in all, I just got looks from people in shorts and flip flops like I was a misplaced lighthouse keeper.
One laughs, mumbles 'only in California.'
And then you read this.

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I get looks from people all the time. I think it's cause I'm the one who's mumbling.

This one I guess?

http://www.wctv.tv/APNews/headlines/36862939.html

-john

That wasn't stupidity, that was outright murder.

http://www.wowowow.com/post/idaho-man-charged-after-daughter-freezes-death-163277

Sue

Why do people insist upon driving when conditions are truly bad, and then compound it by not even having proper clothing or anything if they do get stuck.

Yet another symptom of an ongoing social problem we have yet to deal with effectively.

When people put little or no value in marriage or family, why would we expect them to put any greater value on life itself? Regrettable, but predictable. Certainly not a regional issue.

Depraved indifference, if I were going for a real charge. Certainly negligent.

We are living in the days that Mark Twain predicted:

"When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots."

A quote of a colleague: God must love idiots. He made so many of them.

Stupidity is international.

I suspect Negligent Homicide will be the charges pursued.

I can't imagine what the boy is going through.