A Brat Deliberately Goes Missing 5 Days: A real "Heartwarming" story

There used to be the "human interest" story in the newspapers. This was usually about a lost dog that was found, re-united high school sweethearts marrying at age 80, or a cab driver returning a musician's Stradivarius. Something uplifting. Something to counter all the bad news and reports of disgusting people.

Now?

I'd call this SUBHUMAN INTEREST. Take a look at the smirking pair on the left. They wasted FIVE DAYS of police resources. The stinky, obnoxious brat, age 11, ran away from home because he didn't want to clean up after his dog!

He slept in the subway, had enough money to buy Burger King food or whatever, or steal what he needed...and finally an observant stranger recognized him and called the cops. The woman with him is NOT his sister...it's his MOTHER. She's 25. You do the math.

We're all supposed to find this a heartwarming story.

Heartburn, more likely.

The mentality (I know, not much) of these monkey morons is simple enough...the city and all its agencies have to take care of them, look out for them, and they get reward with their story in the paper. The obnoxious, irresponsible chimp who caused all of this, is called "intrepid" by the newspaper. INTREPID? And for his part, he is just all smirks and grins, because he had an "adventure," and that's ok, folks. Nevermind the time he wasted, or that cops could've been doing other things. Nevermind that he could've been abducted or killed just for the fun of it. The angle here is that this little bastard and his clueless mama have been reunited. The lesson: all you kids out there...you can do the same thing. It'll work out all right. You'll get your name in the papers...and everyone will tearfully smile at this warm, wonderful "human interest" story.