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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Sorry, Old dutch but your post made me laugh and then I felt guilty.
As much as hearing parents extolling the virtues of their kids who were either were victims of a crime due to bad affiliations or committed a crime, its usually the parents who are the last to know. There's also the first instinct of them remembering their kids not as thuggish criminals but as a baby, or the kid who made fart jokes at dinner, or who cried when they broke their favorite toy, so there is a certain amount of understandible denial there.
Sometimes I forget that and because of that I take a position of little sympathy towards the parents.
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That's true. I guess I'm guilty of losing sight of this sometimes as well. Case in point. My parents are friends of the parents of that one gang member who was killed a few years back when some dude bashed his head in with a toilet cover. They kept telling my parents of what a good kid he was and couldn't understand why anyone would do that to their kid. But if you talk to that guy's former friends or people who have had dealings with the guy, none of them were surprised his lifestyle eventually lead to his death.