Letters

People seem to be a strange lot. We are satisfied with the ability to see, but not be too concerned by what we see. Sometimes, it takes someone like a 17-year-old student to wake us up to the fact that something bad is happening, but, unfortunately, we look, turn over and go back to sleep and let the bad thing happen to us. 

The murder of a human being affects dozens of people. 

If a young mother is killed her husband will either have to pay for daycare if neither set of grandparents is able or willing to care for these children.

The father will have to do the grocery and sundry shopping, not to mention cooking, house cleaning, laundry and helping the children with homework. That allows for little social life, evenings or weekends unless hiring a sitter.

This is an abbreviated copy of a letter I sent today.

“Hi Joe, I just wanted to let you know I had my own little run-in with the HOA recently. I got a letter from the HOA saying I had bare spots in my lawn.

“So like a dummy, I went out and bought new sod and tried to fix it up. Of course sod needs to be watered, so I contacted the county to get permission to water the sod.

I am writing about the 15-year-old student who hacked into Crystal River High School’s locked computer system (April 17).  What happened to the young man?

It seems to me that the adults in charge of the security system were delinquent in their jobs, and instead of the principal having the young man arrested, he should have thanked him for showing him the holes in his system. The school was very lucky to have been hacked by someone who did not have malicious intentions.