Taking a Wrong Exit

Did you ever get off at a wrong exit and find yourself wandering about in “the bad part of town,” trying to find your way back to the interstate? Happened recently to a friend. He is a big dude and not especially timid. He walked in to a convenience store to ask directions. A person walked up behind him, grabbed his cell phone, and ran off. Our friend gave chase.

Shortly he rounded a corner only to run into the thief’s buddies. It did not go well for him. He is now sporting all sorts of metal struts, screws and paraphernalia holding together the bits and pieces of his leg and other bodily parts. He is lucky to be alive. Sure we could all say he made a foolish choice. We could all quarterback his options and say we would have done differently. Why is it we make excuses for his errors instead of going ballistic over the fact that some dirt-bags decided to rob him and then severely beat him for a simple cell phone?

How have we become so stinking blind to the facts that robbery is a crime, mugging is a crime, beating a man is a crime, trying to recover your private property is NOT a crime. Over the past 50 years I have gotten off at those wrong exits all too many times. In places like Buffalo, NY, Baltimore, MD, Cleveland. OH, Philadelphia, PA. and many, many, more. Usually I have a large fighting knife with me but I prefer to be carrying a handgun. Unfortunately our friend was not carrying a handgun else he might have been able to fend off his attackers.

Now he is facing a long recovery and rehab, plus tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills. He is uninsured, but the thugs who attacked him are sure to be covered under Medicare. Somehow these people always claim to be the real victims, poor minorities, discriminated against because no one had given them a cell phone as nice as their victim's. Or they needed his phone to sell or buy drugs which someone else was responsible for them being addicted to. Why are we supposed to feel compelled to make excuses for them? Maybe they were just following the progressive morality of Social Justice, equality for all people in all things. I hope so! That's all BS and I hope that eventually they get to suffer equal pain, that someone inflicts some heavy duty social justice on their body and bones and steals their new cell phone, and their drugs, and leaves them dying in a gutter. That would be equal social justice. If you think that's too harsh just don't get off at the wrong exit or you'll find out what harsh really is.