Posted on 06/01/2002 8:02:39 AM PDT by codebreaker
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:20:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Michigan teenager simply invited a couple of friends over to play pool at his families million dollar Farmington hills home, then left them to join his parents for Memorial Day at a cottage near Fenton, Michigan.
But by the time the firefighters had arrived the next morning, a wrecking crew of his fellow teens had fled, leaving behind a million dollar mess.
(Excerpt) Read more at azcentral.com ...
Ban pool now.
I guess I missed that. Did this story say the house was the responsibility of the police department? I sure didn't read that here. Or are you inferring something that wasn't written?
The parents left their OWN TEENAGER home alone, who invited friends over and then left them unsupervised in the house while he took off to spend the rest of the weekend at the family cottage. Obviously these parents had not raised their own child to have very good sense.
I raised FOUR teeneagers and they never would have dared do such a thing. And I made sure that the neighbors knew when I was gone and that they were free to stop any parties that were gathering steam -- there was NO TOLERANCE for such an activity, and the kids and neighbors knew it. Besides, I used to tell them that I didn't know when I would be home; and I would pop in at unexpected times, just to prove the point.
I used to pop in unexpectedly when they were at college too. You should have seen the shocked look on my daughter's face when she was walking home from class on a Wednesday afternoon and she spotted me driving around the streets of Waco, TX looking for her apartment when she was a Freshman. She was glad to see me because we went out shopping for her, but the example was set. Mom or Dad might show up at any time, and you'd better be living where you said you were and with whom you said you were, or there would be He## to pay.
Mom has shown up at odd times at Fraternity and Sorority houses too, and I was always greeted graciously by my children, as well as their friends. Most kids appreciate a parent that cares.
That's better than $1,000,000.50 in damages. :^)
(They add the cents to make the number look bigger than it is.)
All three of them in that picture. :^)
It looks like the parents just let their kid take his own car to their cottage. The Kid was dumb enough to leave the house without locking up or kicking out his friends. I can see it now: Oh please, let us finish up our game then we will leave! You can trust us. We'll remember to lock the door.
I hope he always believes that. It is the way it should be.
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