John Arbuckle said:
Very much a shame, but it seems a clear violation of one of the most basic rules:
Don't act stupid.
***Don't go to stupid places.
Don't hang out with stupid people.
Poor kid would be alive right now if he'd been properly schooled
that there are some places it's just best not to be...
Failing that, being given an understanding of what some folks are capable of,
and good situational awareness training might have saved him.
John
Are you serious?
So what should this "properly schooled" kid have been doing? At home reading history books?
He was at a public event which was attended by over 100,000 people. In a very well lit and well populated area, not to mention well controlled by police.
I was there with my wife and 15 year old son. Not once did we feel in any kind of danger. In fact, we were all surprised to have been there for 5 hours, walking around much of the time and we saw NO violence. No fighting, no arguing, etc. We did see a couple of people who clearly had too much to drink, but in all the crowd was very well behaved.
"Good situational awareness"?? The details are extremely lacking in all of the news reports, but by what I've read/heard, this kid got his throat cut from BEHIND because someone *THOUGHT* he took their cell phone, or was simply angry because his phone was stolen. How do you defend against a seemingly random act?
Without knowing FAR MORE details, I wouldn't dare to call this kid irresponsible. It could have happened to anyone, and likely would have.