So I saw my first ankle monitor on Saturday. Saw this moderately attractive white brunette girl wearing it, coming back from the beach. She didn't have crazy tattoo's or piercings, could have been anywhere from 16-25. I just really fucking wonder what she did to get an ankle monitor.
Well, first of all, 16-25 is pretty big age range, especially if you were eyeballing her as "moderately attractive," pedo. Second, they are more and more common for juvenile justice. Could've gotten a DUI, or brought a gun to school, or shoplifted - but, instead of sending the kids to juvey and dealing with those costs, the probation includes the ankle monitors. Why didn't you just ask her? That's a great opening line. Or, you could've asked her if she has Alzheimer's and her parents wanted to track her movements.
Women in Chicago have a massive issue with not looking their age, for better and worse. The jailbait is so goddamn real it's not even funny. She had that look where she could have been either or and I wouldn't have been surprised. I thought ankle monitors usually meant house arrest or could only go home and work.
Did my duty today and served on a jury. Which was dismissed after opening statements and the first witness because the first witness was a complete and utter idiot. He was robbed during a drug deal--wait, did I say drug deal?--sorry, robbed going out to "dinner" by a friend because he doesn't smoke weed even. Until the defense attorney showed him all the pictures from his old facebook page (got a new one now you know) of him smoking weed. And his name ON facebook was Kush man. Which apparently Kush means weed. Stupid idiot kid (he was 19). Prosecutor requested a side bar, we recessed, came back and prosecutor requested a dismissal because of how bad he was. He said the kid lied to him too. Now I don't have to serve for at least 3 years. Woo.
I agree with Currer Bell (although I don't feel like we can completely discount personal responsibility). Plus how many 18 year olds have you guys been around lately? I work at a college and can tell you that the fact that if you are old enough to go to college you are old enough to have fiscal responsibility is a complete joke. I don't know if it has always been this way and I am just at the "damn kids get off my lawn" stage in my life, but most 18 year old kids (yes, they are kids) make really shitty decisions. *ETA - my response was kind of funny when I go back and read what happyfunball was posting the same time. Yep, kids (even at 18-19) make really shitty decisions.
Most 18 year olds look like adults physically but more closely resemble 12 year olds in the way the act. As a hockey coach, and as a part time grunt at the golf course, I've been around them a lot in the last year or so and its the same no matter gender, activity or whatever else. Legally and physically they may be an adult, mentally they're still very much children. That said, I would almost challenge anyone here to date an 18 year old and report on the experience.
I can't stop cringing when I think of my 18 year old self. I know some people think I'm crazy for suggesting parents shouldn't be obligated to pay for their kids' educations even if they have the means to, but there you go.
She is 22 though. That doesn't make a lot of difference but she should be about ready to graduate and should be a little less idiotic than this. I can't speak to her upbringing but she did admit she was to use that money for classes only and expects her parents to pay the short fall out of their retirement so it does sound like she was pampered (we've had the discussion before) to even think her parents bear any responsibility for her college debts.
This and the other comments make it all the more impressive when I see a young professional athlete handle themselves and their money well, especially when it's just millions of dollars.
I'm sorry, I could have sworn I just read that Ashley fucking Madison just got hacked. OH MY GOD. That's thirty-seven million people being threatened with being publicly posted. The profiteering is going to sleaze itself to an all-time high. Shitstorm, commence!!!
I kind of wonder about this. On the one hand, companies are mining more and more of our data, which makes them vulnerable to hacks. And if those companies are found liable in civil court for failure to adequately safeguard sensitive information that results in harm, then that should force a pressure onto companies to collect and store less data to limit liability. Or, you know, just have better security and insurance. One of the two.
I know that in the education industry I'm in, having children's school data leak is a death sentence to the company. This year alone there have been a couple companies that died because they were idiots and didn't know the first thing about doing secure online apps... one of them had to run full-page Wall Street Journal mia-culpas to try and win back the trust of the parents and school boards. It's rampant paranoia, so much so that the industry has formed a group, endorsed by the White House, to address these issues: http://studentprivacypledge.org/ The one cool thing was we were invited to the White House to discuss policies around education and online data. They wouldn't let me go.
The look of horror that crossed the co-founders' faces when I offered to go was actually quite comical. A couple of my devs doubted I'd pass the security check.
A friend of mine had to wear one for a while that detected alcohol in his sweat after his second dui.