Good Kids

Slow news day, I guess. Lead stories on the news involved some teenagers who died in a car wreck at 4AM (sneaking out with dad's car) with 30 beers in the car, no drivers license (they had permits) making an illegal turn.

Another teen died when "fraternity" initiation went awry and there was gunplay.

More died in when a 16-year-old was doing over 100 miles an hour late at night and slid off the highway overpass.

The common theme among the parents is that these were all good kids. And you know what? I believe them, too. Sometimes even good kids make unwise decisions.

I cannot imagine what the parents must be going through. I only wish teenagers had inherently better thought processes on some of those unwise decisions...it'd save a lot of people a lot of grief.