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Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris
Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not standing up for the lowlives, but just think, if it was your son who had stolen it and crashed horrifically, wouldn't you just forget it was stolen at all and be distraught? Or will you all be saying you'd gladly disown your child if you found out they'd stolen a motorbike?
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I know for a fact if I stole someone's bike and killed myself on it, my parent's and girlfriend would be gutted, but they'd have more dignity than to bang on to the press about what a great kid I was. The reason that I know this for a fact, is because only a couple of weeks back we were discussing a very similar case (but in a car) that was in the local papers. My dad expressed his amusement/amazement at the claims of what a great lad this kid was and said that if it'd of been me, all he'd be saying in the paper was how stupid I'd been, how ashamed he was and how glad he was no one else was hurt.
What do these people think "bigging up" their lowlife mate/child is going to achieve? Everyone who reads the article is still going to think they were lowlife ****s we're better off without. Making them out to be great in spite of doing something so stupid and wrong, just gives the impression you're the kind of permissive tool who allows/encourages this sort of behaviour in your mate/child.