Clive

Nicholas Cook

Katie Abraham

I spend about 60 hours per week on our local roads and the things I see the youth of our area doing in their cars and on their bikes is mind-boggling.

Cars going side-ways round corners, cars and bikes hairing through red lights, bikes zig-zagging through the traffic. And so much more.

If you “kids” can’t think of yourself, think of the family and friends you hurt when you kill yourself and the family and friends of the people you kill and mame in the process.

To read Katie’s comment, and feel the sorrow that that poor girl is feeling because this young person chose to be a clown ... it’s heart rending.

Geeze! Slow down and think about what you are really doing on our roads!

Automobiles are weapons of destruction. They are as lethal as a pistol in a child’s hands. THINK!!!

Sick to the Heart

Calling BJ a clown is an insult to his family and friends ... did you know him? Did you know the fun and caring person that he was?

Were you able to witness first hand the love he had for his siblings, family, friends and parents and the love they reciprocated?

I challenge you to put yourself in the position of his family on the day of his passing, and the lasting images they will have of him in his final minutes.

So many people are quick to judge others and make assumptions based on newspaper reports. But these same people need to take a step back and think, perhaps when they were the same age, young, 10 ft tall and bullet proof, would they have been as old and wise?

JULES4274

Open your eyes, it’s not just the youth on our roads that do silly stuff. I see it across all age groups and both genders.

I would like to ask everyone out there who has passed judgement on Ben, and believe me there have been a few, have you ever made a mistake that under different circumstances could have cost you your life or that of someone else.

I know I have. I believe most of us have, as teenagers and adults. Fortunately for me, I have never paid the ultimate price that Ben did.

I agree with you that motor vehicles are weapons of destruction, I know this better than most, but so are words. Sometimes words are as destructive as any weapon.

There is no way for me to explain the pain felt by the 17-year-old brother of that “clown” after reading such a statement.

Now that was truly heartbreaking. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but some “adults” need to THINK before they pass judgement in a public forum.

Ben’s Extremely Proud Mother.

Karen WoodwaRD