In another "what the hell is wrong with people?" moment, some shocking surveillance tapes have surfaced in a New York City court room showing two out-of-control boys shoving a shopping cart off of an elevated mall walkway and crushing a Manhattan mother 40-feet below. You have to wonder what goes through people's minds sometimes. What did these kids think was funny about pushing a shopping cart off of a 40-foot drop? I think that even when I was a kid with no common sense yet, I still had common sense enough to not pull a stunt like this!
One video clip showed the boys, who were identified as Jeovanni R. and Raymond H., struggling to lift the heavy red Target cart and push it over the rail. A second video clip showed the cart dropping rapidly and striking unsuspecting victim, Mary Hedges, who remains in a coma, and then breaking apart after it hit the asphalt. The videos, actually, show a third boy trying to stop these two imbeciles, but then showed him fleeing the scene before the cart dropped. The video showed stunned shoppers looking in horror at Hedges motionless body as security guards ran to her aid.
The Manhattan judge will use the video footage and other evidence when she rules on the boys' sentences. The boys, who are 12 and 13, pleaded guilty to felony assault charges and are being held at a group home in the Bronx pending the judge's sentencing. From what I read, the boys were unsupervised at the mall, and might only get probation or be sent to a juvenile detention center until they are 18. Because the video shows the boys running away just as the cart begins to tumble, their lawyer is trying to prove that it shows a 'sort of playfulness' and that their was no intent to harm anyone. Is that a joke? If you push something heavy down a 40-foot drop, that it not playful! It's just plain dangerous! Probation would be too light of a sentence for these kids. Personally, I would try them as adults, and I would also put their parents in jail for negligence of their kids. What if Hedges does not come out of her coma or if she takes a turn for the worse? This lady's life is ruined now and all these kids will get is probation or youth detention until they're 18? How is that even fair? If the judge doesn't put these kids and their parents in jail, something is wrong with the judicial system! How's that for a Christmas story? What the hell is wrong with people?
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