Hiding teen sends text message to foil alleged intruders

LITHOPOLIS, Ohio (AP) -- A teenager home alone pulled bed sheets over her head to hide from two intruders and sent a text message to her mother, whose 911 call led to the arrest of two suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

[Semper Fi]

Sure this girl is a hero when she covers herself in a sheet, BUT WHEN Miley Cyrus covers herself in a sheet SHE'S the bad guy!

[pharriesand]

Semper Fi wrote:

Sure this girl is a hero when she covers herself in a sheet, BUT WHEN Miley Cyrus covers herself in a sheet SHE'S the bad guy!

lol

[susie08]

thanksgod for the cell

[Nebakenezzar]

Semper Fi wrote:

Sure this girl is a hero when she covers herself in a sheet, BUT WHEN Miley Cyrus covers herself in a sheet SHE'S the bad guy!

Milley Cyrus is a slut propogating teenage prostitution...

[Miami man]

finally something good came from texting,,milley,cyrus,is not a slut everyone needs to take a look back when they were 15 and give it some thought

[aiki_mcr]

the article wrote:

Burns' mother, Virginia Burns, said her daughter is only guilty of "bad association."

Um, okay.

Right.

She was IN THE HOUSE.

Stealing stuff.

I think she was guilty of, um, oh, what would you call it?

Oh yeah...

BURGLARY.

(It's nice that mom wants to think the best of her daughter, but at some point you gotta face reality.)

[Freemind]

Check out the headline. I’m so sick of the over use of the word “alleged”. These crooks were caught red handed in the house, stealing stuff. The media is to PC to be saying “alleged” all the time.

[VERIZON]

HEllo? next time dial direct. Did you hear me now?

[Caucasian-Alabam ian]

aiki_mcr wrote:

<quoted text>
Um, okay.
Right.
She was IN THE HOUSE.
Stealing stuff.
I think she was guilty of, um, oh, what would you call it?
Oh yeah...
BURGLARY.
(It's nice that mom wants to think the best of her daughter, but at some point you gotta face reality.)

Someone needs to point out to Mommy Dearest that her misguided waif faces 16 years in prison while the bad influence is only facing 8 years. Of course they'll only serve a fraction of that, but what the hell.

[aiki_mcr]

Freemind wrote:

The media is to PC to be saying “alleged” all the time.

It isn't even about being PC, in this case. It's about potential litigation. In the amazingly unlikely event that it turned out the alleged criminals had a good, legal reason to be in the house the news agency could be sued for any statements assuming guilt.

Hence, the word "alleged" even though this case is likely to be a slam dunk.

Oh, and it gets better than that. I don't remember where I first encountered this, but apparently not using the word "alleged" can lead to the story in the paper being judged as being prejudicial, causing a lot of the evidence reported in the article - including the fact that the accused were in the house - to be inadmissible in court, allowing them to walk.

Then, of course, the victims can sue.

I can't believe that prejudicial thing would actually stand up to real challenge, but apparently the specter has been raised and so we get "alleged".

"First thing we do is kill all the laywers" - Shakespeare

[aiki_mcr]

Caucasian-Alabamian wrote:

<quoted text>Someone needs to point out to Mommy Dearest that her misguided waif faces 16 years in prison while the bad influence is only facing 8 years. Of course they'll only serve a fraction of that, but what the hell.

Mommy dearest actually did acknowledge that here dear little girl would have to pay the price for her mistakes. But her words made it clear that she believes she's paying for mistakes made because someone else talked her into it.

Even if she's right, the decision was still the daughter's.