Teen gets in trouble for "doing the right thing.

[Duchess]

That was stupid of her to think the truth wouldn't come to light. Whatta dumbass.

[Spomd]

Teens aren't capable of thinking past their noses..I bet she never expected to be a national news hero based on a quick lie to stay out of trouble with the parents! I also wonder if the cop who let her go knew the family...he may have said 'you're fine, go' and she ran with it. All dumb regardless...I'd say it backfired on her, but not without the same amt of media exposure for lying as she had for supposedly saving the day for a friend.

[username]

When I was a teen, I once told my parents some guys had tried to abduct me because I was really late getting home. They called the cops and everything and I gave them a description of the guys (Mexican, of course...me, racist ?) and the "van" they were driving. I was higher than Pluto at the time. This shit was a lot easier pre-social media.

[Duchess]

I once told my parents some guys had tried to abduct me because I was really late getting home.

I said the boyfriend's sister-in-law tried to commit suicide - for the very same reason you fibbed. Jesus Christ.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think there are any age-related excuses for this girl.

She didn't stop at a "fib' to avoid trouble. Sure, her tale wasn't as tall as claiming she'd been abducted by Mexicans (effin' username -haha), but she spun a web that ultimately reached the max height of immorality.

I can understand a teen lying at first like she did; hoping to avoid repercussions and make the whole thing go away. But, she watched as her self-serving deception instead spread like a wildfire and wrongly put many others in the line of fire - to the point of people protesting on her behalf, hailing her as a heroic victim, donating money to her righteous cause, ponying up free legal services to the supposed good girl done wrong...

The girl's a hot mess and a scammer, IMO. I told some self serving lies as an edgy and rather apathetic teen. Still, guilt would have overcome me and I'd have confessed long before she did.

Ah well, bright side: maybe being exposed at this early an age will give her and the adults who love her the opportunity to get her some help while she's young enough for it to matter.

[Duchess]

She didn't stop at a "fib' to avoid trouble.

You caught that, huh. I know a fib is a lie. I was a dumb & shallow young person.

[Spomd]

No age related 'excuses' but the truth is teens are not mentally there. Do I care? No.. if they commit murder they should be given to the family of the victim to do as they please! In this case, she will get her karma hopefully...not getting into schools she wants, sports, and the entire reputation she has to walk through the HS halls with for the rest of the year. Crap like this is all about how you are brought up. You know, murder as a teen, not sure it always has to do with parents... this crap, I say it does. The positive is that the parents acted immediately to return the funds......I'm sure some of would have kept covering for her.

[Spomd]

This shit was a lot easier pre-social media.

Not enough server space for me to go through all the major lies I told as a teen...but hell yeah, so much easier back then. Heck, if you thought somebody may call and rat you out, you just leave one phone off the hook and they could never get through!

[HairOfTheDog]

Teens today live in the age of social media and already know the swiftness at which communications, rumors, and unravelings travel. Social media therefore doesn't really factor into the foundation of the matter, IMO.

The minute that my teen-aged attempts to cleanly avoid a wrath by telling a lie resulted in somebody else being falsely accused (even one of my sisters, who might have deserved it in my mind), I came clean. Getting away with something - cool. Letting someone else take the fall for it for any duration, even worse than being a snitch in my family and culture.

It's all relative, I guess.

[Spomd]

Agreed... letting somebody take the fall is far beyond the wrath of a quick lie to get out of trouble. I do think there were grown adults involved in this that need some consequences though, or at least need to be dug into a bit deeper.

I always say that we grew up in our neighborhoods, our kids are literally growing up in this huge world. Good and Bad for them, depending upon the day.




This is also the day and age of "Not my kid." which probably should be a thread of its own...... I'm sure she's been taught "not my kid" therefore she thinks "not me" Guess what honey, YES YOU!

[Duchess]

I'm hoping this is simply a case of her lie snowballing. What started out as a way to cover her ass then got out of control. I think one can make really poor decisions and not have it take away from their innate goodness.

[ramseycat]

I HATE the not my kid mentality. It really pisses me off. I will defend my sons to the ends of the earth if they are innocent. But if they are guilty, take your punishment boy. I know my kids and what they are capable of.

[Spomd]

My gut says that is what it was, Duchess..... but then again, I believed her at first lie, too. If the cop hadn't been involved I'd have been inclined to say "check the kid's story"

Either way, tis done. Why is the media not all over her for this though? You'd think they would be!

[Duchess]

Why is the media not all over her for this though? You'd think they would be!

Maybe because she's an upper middleclass white girl who they can relate to. Most adults have some "stupid" in their teenage backgrounds.

[Spomd]

Probably. Maybe it is best the country doesn't know. The good news of her doing right was uplifting, country can use that stuff. Sad it is a lie, but I have to believe there are 10 kids out there who really would be somewhere else, not drinking and willing to pick up for every 1 that is already vomiting at the party. (ok I don't have to believe it, I want to believe itLOL)

[Cynical Ninja]

Can somebody translate the completely unreadable yellow on white text in the original post.

[Spomd]

Copied and pasted in black...


It’s tough for Eleanor Cox to talk about how heartbroken her daughter Erin is over the punishment she received for doing what she thought was right. “She’s very fragile and I’m worried about her. Very worried about her. She didn’t do anything wrong,” Cox told Boston's local station WBZ-TV on Sunday. Two weeks ago, Erin received a call from a friend at a party who was too drunk to drive. Erin drove to a neighboring town after work to pick up her friend. Moments after she arrived, the cops arrived too and busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol. A high school honor student, Erin was cleared by police, who agreed she had not been drinking and was not in possession of alcohol. But her high school told Erin she was in violation of the district’s zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use. In the middle of her senior year, Erin was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and told she would be suspended from playing for five games. “If a kid asks for help from a friend, you don’t want that kid to say ‘I’m sorry I can’t help you. I might end up in trouble at school,’” said attorney Wendy Murphy, who is trying to help the Cox family get the school’s decision reversed. The Cox family filed a lawsuit in District Court on Friday but a lawyer for the school district argued against any kind of injunction. The judge ruled the court did not have jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the parents of Erin’s teammates have started a petition to support her. Neither the school district nor its attorney could be reached for comment Sunday, but the Cox family is hoping they’ll listen to the host of supporters who’ve stood behind Erin. “She didn’t do anything wrong. She did what she thought was right, and I’m very proud of her,” Erin’s mother said..