The Big DumpTruck

[Updated stuff at the bottom]
I won't let myself type the rant that I want to in this place, as the main purpose is to be amusing (for the most part) and I don't find anything amusing about this news story.

By now all you locals have heard about the melee down at the Chuck E. Cheese in Leominster. A woman and her husband asked a group of thugs to let them take one picture of their 11 month old daughter, after the thugs had hogged the photo machine for an hour.

The thugs let them take the picture, then started swearing at the mother, and eventually started beating her. Apparently she was in a fetal position on the floor protecting herself while her husband held their daughter and other patrons tried to break up the fight.

The three who were arrested were 21, 18 and 14. And I hope they throw the two older ones in jail and throw away the key because really, is there any hope that these sub-humans will be productive members of society in any way, shape or form if they beat a woman senseless in a Chuck E. Cheese in front of dozens of school children celebrating birthday parties, etc.? Or hell, beating up anyone for any reason, never mind something as simple as asking if someone else can use the photo booth they've been hogging for an hour. Cripes, when I was 21, I could think of several thousand places I'd rather hang out than Chuck E. Cheese. I didn't hear if either of the older winners were there with small children (which would be bad enough, but I think it's worse if they were just there to hang out) and I have no problem with C.E.C. instituting a "no thugs allowed unless accompanied by small children."

So anyway, I've blind with fury about this, mostly because I'm a mom who has taken her kid there for a birthday party, and to have some mouthy trash from Fitchburg come in and do this in front of little kids (never mind just doing it at all)...well, let's just say that I'm sure I'd start saying things that are not nice, and then maybe the committee to protect mouthy trash from Fitchburg would sue me or something.

So, girls, I hope you rot in jail for a long long time! Maybe you'll have time to think about how the world does NOT revolve around you, and that you do not have the right to do what you want when you want to whoever you want. And special note to the Leominster Police: Take this opportunity to crack down on the groups of kids who hang out in the mall entrances. Last night some charming young lady was crashed on the ground begging people for cigarettes. There is no reason for these kids to gather in the entrances blocking the doors, swearing up a storm in front of my kid. This is how all these problems start.

Huh. I guess I did rant. Sorry about that.

[Update: According to the Fitchburg Sentinel, they were there for a birthday party for a 2 year old. The aunt of the three who were arrested saw nothing, and the lawyer for the 18 year old says the mom slapped her first. Given that other witnesses say differently, lets assume she did touch her in some way...does that make it okay for others to pigpile on and kick a woman laying on the floor? No. It doesn't. Oh, and the 18 year old's prior record was for assault and Battery for "a violent incident where she bit off her aunt's finger at their home in Fitchburg last November, according to court documents." Are you kidding me? This is the innocent party? Try again, ladies.]