"It didn't take long to make this discussion one about race!"
It would be someone living entirely in a different world to the one I became used to who didn't accept that arrest and sentencing for matters like these are havily influenced by class and colour - The Stephen Laurence Murder forced the police to admit this and a recent revisit to the case confirmed that little had changed.

"The world has gone mad"
I tend to agree with Baccy on that one
I don't wish to make light of an appalling tragedy, but neglectful parents want to hope that their kids don't seek the same retribution as did domestic pets in the US some years ago
There were a number of reports of similar occurrences of car owners being run down by their own vehicles - sometimes fatally -
It transpired that the cars involved were all automatics and all of the same manufacture
It appears that in each case the owners had left the cars with their engines running and with a dog inside in blistering heat while they "nipped into the shop"
The pets were so overcome with the heat that they began to leap around the car and, in doing so, hit the lever which set it in motion
The journalist (obviously sharing my bleak taste in humour) speculated on what the thoughts of the owners might have been to see their own Audi bearing down on them "with their pet labrador at the wheel"
Jim Carroll