Two unrelated, yet idiotic episodes

For those who don't live in Mobile, we got hit last weekend with a deluge of up to eight inches of rain in a few hours. But the destruction wasn't limited to Mother Nature.

Some local yahoos camping in the woods decided it'd be hilarious if they stopped up a manhole, causing a major sewage leak.

"It looked like people had been camping out there. They had set up targets for guns and things," Steeves said. "Our manhole looked like it had been shot a few times. They took the top off and stuffed wood and timber down there. It eventually stopped it up."

Read the rest here.

Or how about these girls in Mulberry, a place I used to bash in columns when I lived in Sebring, as being a land of phosphates and stupidity?

A battered and bruised Victoria Lindsay will not be returning to public school following an incident in which six other girls have been accused of videotaping a beating of the 16-year-old Mulberry High cheerleader.

While a week has passed since the pummeling, Lindsay is still recovering from a concussion and has not fully regained her hearing and vision on her left side.

But as swelling subsides, doctors hope those will return, her parents said Monday.

"When I saw my daughter in the emergency room, I didn't recognize my own daughter," said Patrick Lindsay, Victoria's father.

Almost immediately, he handed her a pen and paper to write down the names of who was responsible and how it all happened to give to police.

"She was in fear for her life,'' he said. "She thought she was going to die."

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday the argument between the teens erupted from "trash talking" on MySpace and through text messaging.

The Sheriff's Office declined to elaborate on what specifically was said, citing its ongoing investigation.

But Judd said the video was created for use on YouTube and MySpace, which has become a growing trend among teens.

"This is animalistic behavior," he said while showing a clip of the recorded video at a press conference Monday. "That is pack mentality."

"It's incumbent upon YouTube and MySpace to make drastic changes," Judd said. "If we desensitize kids to this kind of beating today, what's next?"

They beat the tar out of this poor girl just to put it on the internet. Read all about from the Lakeland Ledger here. I hate to sound ancient, but what the hell is with kids today? I know when I was a teenager, classmates could be downright nasty, but this takes it to another level.

I like what the poor girl's dad had to say about teenagers and Myspace. Right on point!

"As far as I am concerned, MySpace is the anti-Christ for children," he said. "I hope this comes to a final resolution. I am not going to stop here."

Even though this is coming from someone who uses their MySpace quite a bit. Like cars, brains, guns, etc., MySpace can be used for good or for ill.

God, I wish people weren't so stupid. And we wonder why we're about to elect a socialist Jimmy Carter repeat as our president.