People Make Me Fucking Sick
Wow...okay, so this is the week of rants, it seems...but I don't think I know ANYTHING that can top this one. This is, quite possibly, the most sick, disgusting, unbelievable story I've ever heard.
Which story, you ask? This would be the story where (get this)...adults taunted a teenage fucking girl in their neighborhood into SUICIDE on MySpace!!!!
Yes, I'm really serious. I wish to the GODS I wasn't, but I'm 100% fucking serious about this. It's not a fake...two people actually did this. For those who don't want to read the entire story, here's a selected synopsis:
Josh had contacted Megan Meier through her MySpace page and wanted to be added as a friend.Yes, he's cute, Tina Meier told her daughter. "Do you know who he is?"
"No, but look at him! He's hot! Please, please, can I add him?"
Mom said yes. And for six weeks Megan and Josh - under Tina's watchful eye - became acquainted in the virtual world of MySpace. ...
Megan went to her room and Ron [her dad] went downstairs to the kitchen, where he and Tina talked about what had happened, the MySpace account, and made dinner.
Twenty minutes later, Tina suddenly froze in mid-sentence.
"I had this God-awful feeling and I ran up into her room and she had hung herself in the closet."
Megan Taylor Meier died the next day, three weeks before her 14th birthday.
Later that day, Ron opened his daughter's MySpace account and viewed what he believes to be the final message Megan saw - one the FBI would be unable to retrieve from the hard drive.
It was from Josh and, according to Ron's best recollection, it said, "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you." ...
The neighbor from down the street, a single mom with a daughter the same age as Megan, informed the Meiers that Josh Evans never existed.
She told the Meiers that Josh Evans was created by adults, a family on their block. These adults, she told the Meiers, were the parents of Megan's former girlfriend, the one with whom she had a falling out.
Are you FUCKING kidding me? What the fuck is wrong with people??? Your daughter isn't friends with someone anymore, so you manipulate yourself into their confidence under false fucking pretenses, and then torment them like a sadistic kid with a gods-damned magnifying glass?
There's no criminal charges to be filed, apparently, because there is no crime to apply to this. There fucking ought to be. Those parents should be facing SOME kind of very, VERY serious criminal charges. Instead, Megan's family suffers, the father has a misdemeanor charge of property damage, and the trauma has split them apart...they're getting divorced.
This is the fucked-up criminal justice system we live under. If this couple (who frankly, should have damn well been named, they deserve NO protection WHATSOEVER for what they've done) had done these exact same things for another purpose, they'd have been talking to Chris Hanson on Dateline: NBC right now. But because they sought to inflict mental and emotional trauma, not sexual, it's all okay in the eyes of the law.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is seriously--VERY seriously--wrong.
To the sick, deranged individuals who not only did this, but have professed to not feeling all that guilty? Go to hell. There's something very wrong with you two, and you should be in jail right now. A teenage girl is dead, because of you. Make no mistake...you're murderers. And you're going to have to deal with that the rest of your gods-damned lives.
Christ, I hate people. Absolutely fucking hate them.*
--Jer
*This statement doesn't apply to you good people out there. Fret not.