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Teen shot in the stomach in Dorchester
By adamg on Thu, 08/25/2016 - 11:13am
UPDATED with link to more information from WBZ.
WBZ reports an 18-year-old trying to break up a fight was shot three times on McClellan Street around 1 a.m. Police found her around the corner on Page Street; a dog was also shot.
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Go to bed
A 15 year old up at 1:30am and outside on the streets?
Yes, it's all her fault
We don't know what she was doing there but I'm going to suggest that a kid out on a nice summer night is hardly the end of the world - or justification for her getting shot.
Why are you attempting to rationalize shitty parenting?
Did/would you allow your child to stay out on the street till 1:30 at the age of 15?
She never asked
So it never came up.
Now, friend, how much do you care that a 15-year-old is in the hospital because somebody shot her?
When I was her age,
and on hot and humid summer nights, I would walk around my town at 11:00pm with a friend and hang out on the porch at a late hour.
Thank you being so judgemental. Have a nice day.
Parent Shaming
Is the new slut shaming. Vastly more about enforcing conformity and moral indignation than it is about any actual risk or hazard.
Here's a novel thought: How about you mind your own business and tend to your own children and maybe, just maybe, get a little outraged at the fact that she was the VICTIM here? That random gunfire means that kids are shot IN THEIR BEDS AT HOME, too?
We also don't know that a parent or other adult relative wasn't with her - shall we call for your arrest the next time you stay out late with one of your kids? Say, get home late from a trip and make a 1:30 am stop on the Turnpike and leave your teens sleeping in car while you run into the restroom, or, maybe, go out for New Years?
Oh wait - you probably don't have any kids. Just like you aren't parenting any clues, either.
it is so exactly like slut
it is so exactly like slut shaming. we've even institutionalized it with CPS and everything! let parents do whatever they want, it's THEIR kid, just like it's THEIR body!
/s
18 years and fighting for her
18 years and fighting for her life
No Real Leaders.
This is sickening a young kid
shot. But where is the outrage?
I know I am outraged by this.
Where are the leaders?
Enough trolling
Some kid got shot twice in the stomach. Joking "go to bed" about that has to be trolling, right?
How'd you feel if that was your kid, and some random person on the Internet posted this?
Welcome to UHub
Where there's no misfortune -- from minor mishap to family tragedy -- that can't be made worse by some know-it-all explaining why it was all your own fault.
Not particularly a UHub thing
Trolls are everywhere on the interwebz - at least on UH they're often recognized as such.
Being home in bed
It makes a special forcefield around anybody under the ever creeping age of independence that repels random gunfire in the neighborhood.
That must be it, right?
Or, maybe, we should be more concerned about gunfire (known to injure people already sleeping) than any scripted moral panics about parenting?
Go to work.
A grown-ass man posting under the pseudonym "Bugs Bunny" and posting victim-blaming bullshit in the middle of the work day?
18
The young lady was 18. But regardless it is the Summer and people are outside late enjoying the night. I mean if she was 15 I would only hope she was home sitting with friends outside since I have a daughter who I would not let hang outside at 1am. Regardless it's very unfortunate. Prayers to her and her family.
Report says 15
You have another source?
She is 18
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/08/25/dorchester-shooting-mcclellan-page...
CBS now has more info, says she's 18. Are we all cool with an 18-year-old being up at 1:30AM? Because the summer I was 18, I was definitely up until 2 or 3 most nights and slept until 10 or 11. Because I could.
Thanks
Post updated with a link to the WBZ account.
Also note that she was trying to break up a fight, so she was doing something good.
Is it wrong
that I'm sad too about the poor dog who not only got shot but looks like the epitome of inner city canine misery--chopped ears, heavy chain, bred for nothing except his power to intimidate? I hope he ends up somewhere better.
yes its wrong
theres no proof that this dog was abused by anybody besides the person that shot him.
also, channel 7 is reporting that the owner couldnt afford the vet bills so the cops paid it themselves which is pretty neat
Does that chain look like fun to you?
I actually didn't say abuse but if you seriously think that a homemade crop job and a chain that makes him look like he escaped the Bastille is an acceptable way to treat an animal then...
Bravo on the cops.
no, you didnt say it was abuse
you said you want the dog to end up in a different home. are you honestly going to sit here and pretend you said that because you think the animal isnt being abused?
please.
lie to yourself about what you meant all you want, but don't pretend that you arent transparent as all getout.
interesting that it seems that none of the cops that paid for the vet bills saw fit to talk to animal control (or whomever) about removing the ~*poor abused dog*~ from its owner.
Oy.
Touched a nerve, did I? Here's the truth: I think it's f'ing sad that anyone thinks it's ok to treat a dog like that to enhance their own damaged machismo. But if you whisked that dog away to a shelter tomorrow, its chances of being adopted are slim to none. So no, I'm not advocating that, just commenting that it's pathetic and sad. Sorry I got you all upset though.
lol you didnt touch shit
besides maybe to stroke your own sense of self righteousness. youre making a ton of assumptions. ill play that game too.
i think youre acting this way based on what you perceive the dog owners race and socioeconomic status to be.
so i think you're a classist and racist.
pathetic and sad.
How presumptuous
You have absolutely zero knowledge of the relationship between that dog and its owner. The chain is a bit much, but I can understand how a muscular dog with an intimidating chain might help give a person a sense of safety in what is clearly a dangerous neighborhood. Just because the dog looks intimidating doesn't mean that the relationship between dog and owner is a bad one.
Reading without comprehension
First of all she was 18 not 15yrs old, warm summer night out with family, so for everyone with the negativity and hurtful comments this innocent female was shot, and is in a coma fighting for her life.... Again INNOCENT VICTIM of these senseless killings in our communities