BREAKING NEWS: Elyria Homecoming Queen faces charges after party: Read Story HERE
I'm not even going to write this blog post. The fine people of Elyria who have certain opinions concerning this story are going to write it for me.
Bill Parfitt writes: "Hahahahaha! This is funny! Some "queen" she is, huh? I hope she's stripped of her homecoming title! Give it to another student who knows how to behave!"
To which Nicole Morris writes: "...you're a middle-aged man ragging on a teenage girl, take a step back and look at how insanely pathetic you are."
But wait- Nicole isn't finished! "Anyone on here with something rude to say, you need to keep it to yourself. You're all pathetic for it, you're judging Emily based off of a misleading article on the internet, how sad are you? You don't know this girl at all, you don't know what really happened that night. Emily Norris is the most kind-hearted girl I ever met in my life, and its pathetic how the entire city has to stick their nose in someone else's business. She made a mistake, does that mean she should have to look at lowlife people make rude comments about her online? No. She does not deserve the way people are handling this. It doesn't even have anything to do with you so keep your rude comments to yourselves. Emily deserved Homecoming Queen, and she did not deserve what happened afterwards."
Steven Wallace chimes in: "It's a shame the police got involved in this. It's just some kids having a good time the way kids are supposed to. Shame on any of you that concur with the police on this! Most kids do this kind of thing after homecoming/prom, it's just the unfortunate few that get caught. Keep doing what you're doing, but don't get caught!"
Really? REALLY? That's the life lesson you want to teach? Do what you want, just don't get caught? Oh boy.
THREE times within an hour, Jennifer Nichole Lane has this to say: "I'm not condoning this but how did this get released with juvenile charges? She's only 17...." Then: "I'm just saying, as a juvenile aren't you protected from release of records..." THEN: "Even after all the parties busted in my city, no one released names of any One under age...." Methinks someone is underage and trying to cover her ass.
David Julius Kovacs pulls the "bully" card: "I may be wrong, but this seems like bullying to me. She will suffer the consequences of her immature actions, but is the public flogging worth it?" As a fat kid who was bullied in school, this is not it.
Kaleigh Plato: "you people are heartless. she made a mistake and none of this is helping her move on any faster. grow up and stop judging others. judging her makes you no better." We are assuming that she made a mistake and she is indeed trying to move on. And making a comment about judging people while you are doing that very thing? Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. I'm black!
But Kaleigh isn't finished: "its crazy how some of thoe people saying the worse comments are "adults"..." Yeah, and it's also funny that the people most vociferous about supporting the girl are "kids". But still, Kaleigh isn't finished: "she should be exempt shes 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kaleigh, are you just trying to cover your own ass? Next commenter please.
Ashley Curtis: "This is against the law. You all are 40 year old men and women picking on a 17 year old girl. This is slander which is against the law. You put her name in the paper which is against the law."
Apparently it isn't. I thought so too. But according to the newspaper, it isn't a law to not publish juveniles names, it's just a courtesy.
The entire comments section features several variations on the same three points of view: 1) Leave her alone, didn't you make mistakes when you were a kid?; 2) Serves her right; 3) OMG you people ought to be ashamed of yourselves I know emily she's a great girl you're committing slander i'm glad all of your kids are so perfect OMG!
And it confirms my belief that comments sections on news stories are basically worthless.
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