Juveniles

I read with interest in the paper today about some do gooders who believe that we shouldnt lock up our children when they commit crimes.

It would appear that these do gooders believe that the Ashley detention center for juveniles is an equivilant to Guantanemo bay, I can assure you that Mr Hicks was not having the problem of being bored because all he has to do in his day is play computer games.
Nothing could piss me off more that these pathetic do gooders, usually mothers of serial offenders whinging about the treatment there precious children are recieving. If they had bothered to discipline and raise their children in the first place then they would not end up in a prison facility.

A 15 year old was recently arrested and charged with an Armed robbery, should this little punk be allowed to go home to his mummy? id bet my last dollar that he commited another crime within the week. and then what?

I have had the lovely experience of coming home twice within the last 12 months to find my house burgled. House ransacked, items of value stolen, even items of no value stolen.
The bastards smashed and broke toys and money boxes from my 5 year olds room just so they could get a few dollars of church change. They stole gifts from under the christmas tree, I hope they enjoyed the pack of hot wheels cars wrapped and labelled for the wishing tree. We lost christmas lights twice within a week, is nothing sacred?

The police came around, took prints and DNA samples, told us they pretty much new which kids it was, but there has never been an arrest and other than for the hour the police were in my house I dont think they gave a damn about me or my property. They dont have time too, we were burglary number 5 for that day they told us.

I have had cars broken into outside work more than once, one day I caught a kid in my car and chased him through Glenorchy, I eventually collared him and made him empty his pockets, I got my sunglasses back and the $6 dollars of church change. As I was walking away he pulled a knife out of his socks and threatened me, luckily I had a box cutter in my pocket that I required for work, when I grabbed it and opened it he bolted, this kid was no older than 15. I didnt bother dragging him to the police station because even if he was charged he would be back out doing what ever he wanted the next day, and when he did front a court he probably would have got a slap on the wrist, the judiciary system was a joke then (8 years ago) and it is a bigger joke now.

The sick, violated feeling that i felt especially the two times i have been burgaled would never in 10 years of time in Ashley be replicated. I have no sympathy for anybody who commits a crime, why should i as a law obiding citizen give a rats arse what happens to someone who laughs in the face of society?

The talk lately has been about the cost of keeping a youth at Ashley, the figure is $250,000 per criminal per year. I read with horror today how one of the mothers of an inmate said her son was bored because all he gets to do is play computer games all day. Give me a break. the goverment should NEVER NEVER EVER provide such luxuries as computer games to criminals serving time unless it is an Atari 1600 and the only game supplied is keystone cops.

The Atari 5200 - The upmarket version!!

Im sure the victims of whatever crimes this arsehole commited take great satisfaction in knowing that he is sitting around playing computer games all day, at least they have the satisfaction of knowing that he is behind bars unlike my partner and I who got to work every day wondering what day the monitoring company of our newly installed alarm will call to say your alarm is going off, will whoever broke in grab stuff on the way out? will it protect our possesions? Will we come home to find them waiting nearby to violently attack us, or will we be at the service station/bottleshop/pharmacy tomorrow night and have a gun toting 15 year old ask us to provide our wallets.

Maybe the government might like to hold back some cash allocation from playstations and plasmas and spend it on a bigger more secure juvenile detention centre, one that is staffed appropriately and can cater for as many law breaking "good natured" kiddies as needed. Maybe there could be enough room to toss there do gooder parents in with them.

Geeva is offering to save the government money by playing computer games for $100,000 per year