It was a famous case out here in California. A school bus full school children was highjacked, and the kids were buried alive inside the bus out in the wilderness and held for what I think was a $2 million ransom.
The fact that the guy was the son of a homebuilder acting that way doesn't surprise me in the least. It just goes to show it isn't poverty like the left claims. It's character.
Exactly my point. It's why I get so infuriated when I hear leftists blaming poverty for crime.
It infantilizes the poor and profiles them as potential criminals, when in reality, it is the working poor who are more likely to be victims of crime, and more negatively impacted by it.
It adds insult to injury.
To your point: The Chowchilla kidnapping back in the 1970s was carried out by rich kids who kidnapped the children of poor farmers to pay off a gambling debt.
It was a famous case out here in California. A school bus full school children was highjacked, and the kids were buried alive inside the bus out in the wilderness and held for what I think was a $2 million ransom.
I do remember hearing about it but I didn't know the outcome or who did it
Fortunately the kids were recovered, and the kidnappers got caught.
The fact that the guy was the son of a homebuilder acting that way doesn't surprise me in the least. It just goes to show it isn't poverty like the left claims. It's character.
yeah he is a rich kid. I grew up poor and I have never stolen anything in my life
Exactly my point. It's why I get so infuriated when I hear leftists blaming poverty for crime.
It infantilizes the poor and profiles them as potential criminals, when in reality, it is the working poor who are more likely to be victims of crime, and more negatively impacted by it.
It adds insult to injury.
To your point: The Chowchilla kidnapping back in the 1970s was carried out by rich kids who kidnapped the children of poor farmers to pay off a gambling debt.
I did not know that about the Chowchilla kidnapping