Shock Jocks Should be Prosecuted!

01/25/2007: 28-year-old Jennifer Strange died competing in an event that was senseless and reckless.

Any serious distance runner knows of the dangers of hyponatremia, a potentially fatal swelling of the brain cells caused by over-hydration. Every year, a couple distance runners die from it.

While I do not expect a DJ–a group whose intelligence ranks slightly higher than pigs–to understand what hyponatremia is, I do expect them to perform due diligence with their station before engaging in such contests.

At any rate, if someone with knowledge warns them, they need to take it seriously.

Unfortunately, when a caller informed the DJs that participants–who were competing to see who could drink the most water without urinating–were risking their lives, they made light of it.

Drinking such high amounts of water is almost as dangerous as playing Russian Roulette with a semiautomatic.

As for the DJs, I’d like to have them work as target holders at the gun range.

In all seriousness, I hope they get jail time for this.

Rodreick–the 29-year-old 7th Grader–Had Videotaped Child Sex

01/25/2007: Neil Havens Rodreick II, the 29-year-old who enrolled at an elementary school–and attended over 50 days before being kicked out–apparently had a videotape showing him having sex with a child.

He–and one of the partners with whom he was living–had prior convictions for sex offenses with a child. In 1996, he was convicted of lewd and indecent proposal to a minor.

While one can make the assertion that his conviction in 1996 was not strong enough to merit a long prison sentence, it is my hope that our justice system sees the light on this one.

Rodreick should not be allowed to see the light of day as a free person. If he gets anything less than a life term this time, then shame on us.