C. Matthew McMahon
Christian Preacher
Situation:
Boy and a friend swipe old man's pipe.
They go downstaris in the basement and smoke it (coughing as they go).
The basement is in an old school where children live (blind children).
Women hears them, comes down the steps into the basement, asks them what they are doing.
They say "nothing." She tells them to leave.
Boys leave pipe in basement - they tossed it quickly as the woman came down stairs.
Later on, say an hour or two, the pipe finally catches fire and the school is on fire.
Everyone gets out except a woman and a baby. They die in the fire. The woman tried to save the child but they could not make it out.
Later on, the mother of the dead child (who lived) goes "comatose" and has mental problems for a while denying her baby died.
The husband of the woman who died begins drinking.
Family problems result all around.
In searching the debris, they find the pipe and believe that it started the fire.
One of the boys, who is usually a good kid, finds out the pipe started the fire and tells no one.
None one suspects him. He is very remorseful and internalizes it.
This goes on for about three weeks.
(I'm leaving lots of things out, but this is the basic idea.)
The father of the boy finds out that the boy was the one in the basement (one of two) and knows he started the fire. It was an accident.
Two people died in the fire.
This was a Little House on the Prarie episode that was probably the most intense one my wife and I have seen so far. For those who like the show, and know this episode, Mrs. Garvey dies trying to rescue Mary and Adam's baby. Mrs. Garvey and the baby die. We were taken back, but remembered it after the fact. In any case...
What would you do overall to the boy? (who was Albert Ingalls).
What if it was your kid? What would you do?
Boy and a friend swipe old man's pipe.
They go downstaris in the basement and smoke it (coughing as they go).
The basement is in an old school where children live (blind children).
Women hears them, comes down the steps into the basement, asks them what they are doing.
They say "nothing." She tells them to leave.
Boys leave pipe in basement - they tossed it quickly as the woman came down stairs.
Later on, say an hour or two, the pipe finally catches fire and the school is on fire.
Everyone gets out except a woman and a baby. They die in the fire. The woman tried to save the child but they could not make it out.
Later on, the mother of the dead child (who lived) goes "comatose" and has mental problems for a while denying her baby died.
The husband of the woman who died begins drinking.
Family problems result all around.
In searching the debris, they find the pipe and believe that it started the fire.
One of the boys, who is usually a good kid, finds out the pipe started the fire and tells no one.
None one suspects him. He is very remorseful and internalizes it.
This goes on for about three weeks.
(I'm leaving lots of things out, but this is the basic idea.)
The father of the boy finds out that the boy was the one in the basement (one of two) and knows he started the fire. It was an accident.
Two people died in the fire.
This was a Little House on the Prarie episode that was probably the most intense one my wife and I have seen so far. For those who like the show, and know this episode, Mrs. Garvey dies trying to rescue Mary and Adam's baby. Mrs. Garvey and the baby die. We were taken back, but remembered it after the fact. In any case...
What would you do overall to the boy? (who was Albert Ingalls).
What if it was your kid? What would you do?
