This is your brain on stupid and evil.
There are many ways to improve the future of America and the human race, and one of those ways would be to euthanize this animal immediately:
Read this article and tell me you don’t want to kill him with your own bare hands. And his mother, too.
THE PICTURES on Joseph Genovese Jr.’s MySpace page speak a thousand words, and the words on the page paint a disturbing picture of a teen so full of hubris that he used his mugshot as his profile picture.
Even in the wake of being charged with homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence for allegedly killing one pedestrian tourist and injuring another last week, 18-year-old Genovese had kept his MySpace profile public - a profile in which he brags of his exploits with pot, alcohol, graffiti and fast cars.
…The teen’s room was decorated with gangster-themed posters and candid pictures of him smoking marijuana, said [Lt. Jim] McCarrick.
Family members declined to comment after the search, but told police people were overreacting to Genovese’s mistake.
“The mother thinks the whole thing is overkill,” McCarrick said, after leaving the home. “She said he [Genovese] just ran a red light and got into a car accident.”
Police allege that Genovese hit Cindy Grassi, 43, and Sandra Wacker, 36, both of Missouri, when he ran a red light at Broad Street near Curtin while allegedly intoxicated. Police have declined to detail what substance they believe Genovese had consumed.
Pictures on Genovese’s MySpace page could work against him in light of the incident.
One photo, which appears to be taken from the driver’s seat of his vehicle, shows the speedometer clocking in at 105 mph.
The caption under the photo reads: aLiL UnDer 120 OnPAcKeR aVE!!..yea digg????”
In other photos, he admits to “BObBiN ND WeEzzZiN” in and out of traffic and having a “NEeD 4 SPeEd????”
He writes that his car, which he identifies as a Lexus GS 300, is equipped with an alarm system, auto-start technology and a TV screen placed in the dashboard.
Genovese lists his occupation as “JuSt B DAt Boii!!!…” but goes on to list his income as $250,000 or more. In a separate section in which people typically write the companies they work for or are associated with, Genovese writes: “Chronic Dealer, Philadelphia, Pa US, HusLa, weed, dope, crack, heroin, meth., and wAT EVa U FIEn for!”
Genovese brags about how sexy he looks when he’s high, and has posted pictures of himself smoking out of a bong.
“LOok AT ALL DATT WEeD!!!!” he wrote under one photo. “ahaha brought a POUNd just 2go 2pROM!!!!!!”
… Genovese, who often refers to himself as a “star” and “famous,” also posted pictures of graffiti of his nick-name, “J-Bones,” sprayed on bathroom and brick walls.
“ALL BOUT $$, ALL BOUT SPRAYiN . . . ” he wrote under one.
… On Tuesday, right before Genovese turned himself in to face vehicular homicide charges, the tone of his online postings changed drastically.
“im just waitin 4 demm 2 kum gett mee,” he wrote to one friend. “i love youu u no i didnt want it 2 go this way godd just needed to teach me the ways of life the hard way to set me straight.”
Genovese now stands accused of involuntary manslaughter, homicide by vehicle, homicide by vehicle while under the influence and DUI in the death of Grassi.
He’s also charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person for the injuries suffered by Wacker, who remains in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
I have no commentary; I think the story speaks for itself.
obamanation!
ok, his myspace page doesn’t say anything about obama, but is there any doubt who obama’s supporters are? they be throwin’ it uuuuup!
July 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pmAnd whenever this goes to trial I won’t be at all surprised that the snake of a lawyer that defends his sorry ass will do everything possible to get everything on his myspace page as inadmissable in the trial. I’d have wanted to punch him after just reading his garbage. Now I want to punch him with Wolverine’s claws.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pmSo, not only is he a witless fool, he is also a first-class douchebag? I hope his mom is proud of him.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pmWhat a hideous excuse for a human being. Even in his “God just needed to set me straight” line, he reveals an incredible narcissism.
And what the hell is an 18 year old doing with a Lexus? I don’t care HOW rich you are, parents. If you buy your kid a Lexus, you are begging him to become an egotistical, narcissistic little shit. And if he’s 18 and thinks that’s how to spell, you need to send him to Sylvan or hire a tutor or something.
If only there were a way to make indulgent parents like that responsible for the criminal acts of their 18-year-old children.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:36 pmI want to smack him up just for the atrocious grammar and spelling.
Yea bOI? Here, try some fist.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pmI can only hope this assclown becomes the new meat at his local prison.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pmI’d love to smack him around, but I’d REALLY love to smack his parents, particularly his swimmin’ in deNile mother.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pmSee, this story is all too typical of the consequences of eight years of Bush’s totalitarian state, where the little people are marginalized and have no hope.
Expect to see this adorable tyke’s sad story picked up and used by Obama on the campaign trail. I mean, it’s a natural! Blows Edwards’ “girl with the cloth coat” right out of the water. This kid would totally punk that bitch!
July 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pmHe should get an extra ten years for being too stupid to operate the “shift” key properly.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:52 pmThis lump of shit wouldn’t last five minutes in most parts of Detroit.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pmAn alarm system? Wow…I wish I could be that cool. oy.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:56 pmI second disgruntled. Better yet, can we nominate him for Rachel’s citizen-participation system? C’mon y’all, who wouldn’t shell out $50 to creatively apply a tire iron?
July 17th, 2008 at 12:58 pmI’m all for a certain amount of bravado, but there is a line between bravado and stupidity. This person (as I cannot conceivably call him a man) not only jumped over it, but also managed to get in a couple of flips before landing on his head
July 17th, 2008 at 12:59 pmAnd yet, even after all that, I bet he has a girlfriend who adores him.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pmPatHMV said:
I doubt very much his parents bought the Lexus. I think he probably paid for that himself if he’s dealing drugs. His mother is truly in denial if she thinks he could afford a car like that on a teenager’s paycheck. (He’s got sKILLs!) What a monstrous sociopath.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pmOh, but he’s sorry, see. That makes it okay.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:05 pmI blame Weed, I mean Bush.
Oh well, somce kind of plant-life. Maybe a shrubbery?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pmYou are so right dude. They should have gotten him a Mercedes.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:09 pmIs it just me? Does anyone else want to see his mother given a hysterectomy with a red hot poker, before she spawns again?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pmThere’s your reason, right there, and that’s who should have the tire iron applied liberally. In one of the “women are bitches, and men are douchebags” threads, it was pointed out that women being treated like Princesses could cause them to get the entitlement mentality, but here I’d say we have an example of the parents treating their son like he walks on water, so he thinks he can do and say anything.
I would still run him through a hazing line, with everyone holding cattle prods, though.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pmThis is your brain on the liberal education system
July 17th, 2008 at 1:29 pmEeeewww….
Sounds like Mama-san is one of those mothers who’s “precious little baby” can do no wrong.
Little punk deserves everything he gets. Parents deserve a caning, especially Mom for saying the whole thing was overkill.
EXCUSE ME?!?!? Your brat KILLED someone! How about insisting on some responsibility here.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:35 pmMom obviously benefitted from his drug dealing. Gang posters and pictures of him smoking pot?
It’s almost always about the parents and the lazy way they raise their kids.
Don’t get me wrong this kid deserves that special kind of lovin’ he will get in prison, but I am curious to learn more about the loser mom and her lifestyle.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pmSo how does some half-wit goombah wanna-be get the money for a Lexus? I have two ideas:
(1) Mommy, or
(2) Selling drugs.
You have the audacity to be proud, Mama Genovese? Congrats “It’s all a misunderstanding” Mama G: you raised an illiterate, scumbug, malignant narcissist! And we know that apple hasn’t fallen too far from your tree, you pathetic, negligent Breeder (a term I use solely for people who want to have babies, but have no interest in being a parent).
July 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pmThis guy is how Eric Cartman will turn out when he’s 18. “whatevah! I’ll do what I wahnt!”
OK, it would be if I wasn’t talking about a cartoon.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIf anything should wake this kid up, it would be this. Unfortunately, I fear that his parents will continue their efforts to convince him that there are no consequences to his actions (”the whole thing is overkill”). I sincerely hope that he will realize the error of all that he has been taught and begin to realize the realities of life. If so, he may learn to be a decent human being in however long it takes him to get out of prison.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pmI agree - the mother should face some punishment as well - obviously her lil’ sweetums didn’t get that way on his own…
July 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pmEver seen “Growing up Gotti”? Don’t recall if it was A&E or Bravo, whatever, there were three or four of these punks that were John Gotti’s grandsons. Cut from the same cloth as this clown. I stumbled across the show once and I was so disgusted I could never watch it again. Seriously annoying.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pmSomeone quick, blame “Dubya” and the War. *rolls eyes at that ol’ chestnut*
Seriously, can this kid not spell or use grammar correctly? Do I need to overthrow the government of this nation to teach CORRECT ENGLISH to our children?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI feel like I need to take a shower after meandering over to MySpace but, lookie here for a video of this P.O.S. getting arrested and loaded into the Police Wagon:
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=6958700&version=1&locale=EN-US
July 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI live in St. Louis and read the story when it first broke. There was a link to news video of this class-a turdball claiming he ran a ‘yellow light’ and the women jumped out in front of him. He was also bleating like a pig that he wasn’t drunk and the police couldn’t say he was because they didn’t administer a breathalyzer. The retard didn’t notice them taking a blood sample. Every time I see this shit head my blood pressure goes up.
I need to go punch a hippie.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pmPersonally, I see nothing wrong with putting the whole family into the same cell for a couple of years. Let them really tear at each other. Then, just take them out someplace and kill them all - slowly. After, of course, advising them not to “over-react”. God! I hate people like that!
July 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pmAnd, it seems that there are more and more of these type of people all the time. There are no real consequences for their actions - so they never have to accept any responsibility for anything they do. It’s always somebody else’s fault.
Hmmm… I doubt he’s going to find many people to respect his ah-thor-tah where he’s going.
Screw you guys… I’m goin’ home.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pmI’m pretty disgusted with this person in this article. However, can anyone honestly say they are really, truly shocked by this behavior?
I’m not. For the last 30-40 years, we’ve had an anything goes mentality.
Be judgemental? You’re a big meany.
Trying to have a set of standards? You’re a big meany.
Try to create some parental discipline? You’re a big meany.
And the best part about all of this is that the Millenials (and to be fair, GenXers and Boomers do this too) are in their 20’s. We have at least several more decades of this shit! Don’t you feel better now?
Way back in the late 90’s, when I was in Education school (a profession I’m glad I never entered, seeing the cesspool of retardation that has swamped the schools), the Columbine incident occurred. All of my professors told the stunned education students that this was only an isolated incident (much like the media at the time was telling the general population). I was the only one in my class who said that this was not an isolated incident, but that it was going to get worse. Needless to say, the professors didn’t like me much.
This is the “Great Society” that we all wanted. We’re just getting what we deserve, since I don’t see anyone actually doing anything to correct the problem. Phil Gramm was right. We are a nation of whiners. We’re on our way towards Britannia.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pmAfter watching the FOXNews vid that langtry linked, I could only think how fitting it is that the killer’s front plate was a skull and crossbones. Maybe it should have been the grim reaper.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:26 pmWell he probably just adored Hulk Hogans son. What a waste of skin.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pmOver on his MySpace site his homies have come up with a slogan:
(Plus a few others because this is just too easy).
July 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm14K:
*giggles*
I mentioned elsewhere that Karma’s a b^&*&?
July 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pmYes you did. And I’m guessing this boii right here will soon be the exact male type you dislike — skinny, with reeally bad (missing) teeth (tee, hee).
July 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pmI wish, more than ever, that stupidity was painful.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pmHope he gets what he deseves. It’s just like you were saying yesterday Rachel, about girls whose fathers who baby their daughters. Same goes for this piece of shit’s mother. She doesn’t see anything wrong with what he was doing? if she has any other children under 18 in her house CPS should come and snatch them! Well look at it this way…with eyebrows that impecible he’s definitely going to be someone’s bitch in prison.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pmOk, I don’t *think* this post will make it past your naughty words filter. But dammit I have to try.
1) I think what they should do is, add the ages of the ladies that got hit. 43 & 36. THEN let him get ass-raped everyday for 79 yrs.
2) Then while this is going on, someone should look at his MySpace, and add 5yrs for every dumbass thing he says.
3) 3yrs for every misspelled word. You know how these piss ants do that to show how ‘cool’ (or kewl) they are.
4) And a good ass kicking for each picture showing him being or acting like an irresponsible jackass.
5) And give his parent(s) a good ass kicking for each time THEY say something dumb.
I so wish I was in charge of things….
July 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pmJumping right in: Packer Ave is in South Philadelphia, not too far from the two sports stadiums.
But 105 MPH in a residential district?
Holy fuck.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pmIt is. It’s painful for us.
“Ignorance is bliss.”
July 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pmThis guy is too stupid to live.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:33 pm*stares in blank but not shocked silence*
There really are no words.
Even his apology isn’t an apology. He’s not sorry someone died. He’s sorry that he got caught and can’t live his cushy little lousy pathetic life.
He is in for some real butt hurtin’ where he’s headed. No I do not condone rape in jail (or anywhere else) but it is SO hard not to wish it on snot nosed brats like this.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pmI know it’s easy to hate on the mom since she was mentioned, but let’s not forget this douchelicker has a dad too.
Take a good look at this kid, because he’s not that rare. And for all his bad grammar and spelling, he’s managed to learn exactly what he has been taught from before the time he could walk
- rules are for losers,
- there are no consequences when I fail
- I deserve to have whatever I want, NOW.
It’s an even money bet that he’s already procreated at least once.
You may have encountered him when he was younger. He was that kid in the grocery store - you know, the one who you’d never seen before, but before you were finished shopping you had developed a nervous tic at the sound of his name. His mother kept saying it over and over and over to “correct” him. He knew she didn’t mean it and had already tuned her out. If only you could. Or maybe you met him on a plane, or at the park, or on the playground at the McDonald’s. He’s everywhere.
These are the hellspawn that develop into the Joseph Genoveses of the world. He didn’t have to turn out this way, but his parents chose his path by choosing not to be his parents, but his “friends” if they even took that much interest.
If Joseph would have heard his name less, “NO!” more and been held accountable for his actions, he still might have turned out to be a prick, but at least he would have known better.
He should spend the next 50 years in jail eating Olestra filled foods five times a day and cleaning his toilet with a toothbrush. Preferably the one he uses on his teeth.
God, the human race sucks.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pmThe little piece of shit will make some Lifer a nice girlfriend (hopefully for 25+ years). If there’s any justice in this world.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:47 pmThis is a question for everyone blaming the parents.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:47 pmIf you have a teenager who is mentally sane but out of control, how do you reign him or her in?
I’d bet that most solutions you come up with would actually end up with either the kid or more likely the PARENT in jail.
He deserves to be sent back from whence he came. That solves the problem with the mother too. Use the dad to cork him in and it’s a perfect trifecta.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pmjayrtfm,
The problem is that this society allows kids to act however they want without consequence (adults too) and is then shocked, truly shocked when the kids grow up to be monstrous teens (see my post above). There is little discipline whatsoever in most parenting these days.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pmI am reposting what workied for me, jayrtfm, although it’s really more important to instill a healthy does of both fear and respect as they are growing up.
When I started to see real issues with my 15-year-old whose father and were are not married … immediate plan of humiliation and deprivation. Daily. Don’t back down. Don’t appear weak even for a second. Never budge an inch. Teenagers are pack animals; they can smell fear and will take down the weakest first.
And it was AWFUL.
Basically, I just had to realize that if it didn’t work she would end up in prison, or thrown out of my house so as not to influence her siblings, as she was physically larger than me by the time she was 12. Once I accepted that fact, it was easier to put on my game face and stick with the program.
Simplistic? Possibly. But I will use it with my youngest two as well, and have had to, on occasion, deny them privileges. Nothing sucks more than when your mom won’t let you out of the house and has you scrubbing toilets when all the rest of the cool kids are down at the river kneeboarding and checking out babes/hunks in bikinis/trunks.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:02 pmHe’s old enough to enlist
July 17th, 2008 at 4:02 pmPreach the Gospel and pull the trigger.
I’ll even volunteer.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pmI wouldn’t want this little waste of breath on the same base with someone like Rupert.
Just saying. Our military is way to noble for this punk.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:07 pmjayrtfm,
(rtfm. Don’t hear that much these days)
How kids act when they’re 10, 12, 14, is heavily influenced by how they were made to act when they were 2, 4, 6. If you wait until they’re teens to try to take control, you’ve already lost.
With that said, there are some kids who have been raised “right” but still get out of control as teens.
-Counseling
July 17th, 2008 at 4:08 pm-Boarding Schools/Boot Camps/Intervention Programs
-Call the police on them yourselves.
-If they’re over 16, boot their ass out of your house - if they’re hellbent on being a tool at least don’t enable them.
Charybdis,
I don’t know what the laws are in your state, but in NYS, the parents are responsible for their kids until they are past 18, I think (I could be wrong on this). Not really an option for disciplining a kid. Not that I disagree with your assessment, but the law really kills a parent in that regard.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pmI cannot abide useless people.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pmTexas allows for emancipation of minors at 17, or 16 if they’re not living at home.
FYI, New York also allows for as young as 16.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:21 pmThat’s not really helpful. One part says that an emancipated minor in NYS is considered that if they are not being supported by the parents, but at the end it states: “The right to sue for parental support if the parent forced the youth to leave home”
Like I said, it kills the parent. And if the kid does something, I’m pretty sure the parents could still be sued for damages that the kid inflicts.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pmSome of you people…. This young misguided youth simply needs lots of therapy and rehabilitation, not punishment.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pmCrusader,
please tell me you’re not serious.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pmAre you sure the mother kept the child and not the afterbirth? This waste of protoplasm sounds like the ultimate switched at birth.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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July 17th, 2008 at 5:23 pmI’m betting mOmmY dEAResT is one of her son’s best drug customers.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pmfurther proof that GoDd haz a sENse of HYOomeR, know what im sayin? in the olden days, his uncles would have decided they’d seen enough years ago. then they’d “take him out on a hunting trip” and beat some sense into him; or, should that fail, the boy would suffer a tragic hunting accident.
gOdD, i miss the olden daze.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pmHow much you wantg to bet that he listens to rap music , iolizes the imagery of rap videos and speaks with a fake urban dialect.
It’s funny, I have heard for all my life how much it sucks to have been born black in a white country, but now all the white kids emulate black culture.
Queer, usn’t it.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:57 pmI’d look at malleting the whole family.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:24 pmHe needs killing but that probably won’t happen. So cripple him. Break his ankles, knees, wrists, and elbows. Then twist those joints a bit.
His parent’s produced a defective product. Product liability laws should be applicable.
And whichever of his douche relatives used the word ‘overkill’ in any statement related to this avoidable tragedy should have the Barbed Cock of Satan repeatedly inserted into their anal orifice.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pmMaybe the little shitstain will be butt-hurt to death in prison.
Mind how you handle that soap in the shower, dude.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:16 pmYeah, but only because he got caught, not because he’s sorry for what he did. With this type, it’s ALWAYS about them. He couldn’t give a shit about his victims.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:49 pmThis makes me soooo proud to be a Philadelphian.
Another check-mark in our favor. Tourist? Hell, we kills ‘em.
I ask, humbly, for your sympathy. I have to hire from this cesspool of uneducated, but arrogant (yo, I gots me a 650 on my’s SAT’s)assholes
July 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pmI have sympathy for parents of this kind of scum in only one case and that is if they are a born physcopath… and dammit it can happen. Brain circuitry screwed up.
However, given this mama’s “overkill” statement (how damned inconsiderate if nothing else) I suspect this kid could have been normal if his parents hadn’t been screwed up.
Part of the problem is the “advice” parents are given these days. I have a 16 month old granddaughter and her mother told me she just threw away several books that advised no discipline until age 3.
Her comment? “If we hadn’t started disciplining her at 6 months, she’d be an absolute horror by now.”
If you wait until 3 years old before disciplining, you’re doomed.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:22 pmDoes anyone else notice that as the comments get longer we have a gradual ratcheting up of the brutality expressed toward these, admitted, scum. It is like there is this sick and twisted form of “¿Quien es muy macho?” thing going on.
Yes, he is scum
Yes, the mom needs to rent a clue.
But civilization says we don’t put people, say, in wood-chippers or wish ass-rape on anyone. We follow the law, and the law says, if he is worthy of death, he gets poison slipped into his veins because otherwise we are no different that those tribal societies that we point and laugh at for being stuck in the 6th century
July 17th, 2008 at 10:23 pmGentle Jesus on a rubber crutch, Thomas, what did the military do to you that you would wish this walking pustule on them?
July 18th, 2008 at 2:13 amAm I the only person here who realizes that teenagers exaggerate like none other online? Of course he has pictures of him with weed and with a speedometer showing 105 - with a little Photoshop or GIMP, I can do the same thing. I can also have a profile detailing how I’m a drug dealer, using poor capitalization, and just generally pretend to be a douchebag, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m a 28-year-old computer nerd.
Ignore the Myspace page. It shows that he really wants the world to think he’s a tough guy and absolutely nothing more. Focus on the fact that he ran over a couple of people while intoxicated. That’s more than enough to land him in prison for a little while. All convicting him of crimes he wants the world to think he committed will do is reinforce the image in his mind that he’s a real “tough guy”, real “gangster”. I refuse to waste tax dollars on his warped source of self-esteem.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:21 amThe MTV/pop culture at its worst. I wonder if Mumia will take up the cause of this oppressed youth.
MAYbEe U SHOOd go 2 PriZZUn 4 the REst of UR lIFE. WORD.
Can you say “Prison Bitch”?
July 18th, 2008 at 7:58 amFour years in the Marine Corps might be just what he needs. (Do they still do that ‘jail, or the Army’ thing?) It’s clear that he had no strong, responsible male role model; spending eight weeks with Gunnery Sergeant Smith (or Jefferson or Kim or Ramirez for that matter) in his face 24-7 would definitely change his life, probably for the better.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:17 amAsswipe.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:57 amDeath penalty is too good for this guy. It would be too quick.
Ditto the mom. What a tool.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:17 amI can see David Colborne’s point about the boy’s exaggerations — the contrast between the quivering, vomiting mess the police describe at his booking and the “Boii” this kid projects on his MySpace page pretty well bears that out.
I don’t mean to say that I think he’s just misguided, or anything approaching a ‘good kid.’ No. 14k and Redhead have good kids. At best, this kid is seriously in need of major correction; yet I doubt he’s half the thug he’d like his peers to think he is.
Unlike Mr. Colborne, though, I can’t just “ignore the Myspace page.” That the boy wanted to project all that? That sickens me beyond description! That’s his ideal of manhood? That’s what will elevate him in the opinion of his peers? Nice pass we’ve come to!
Rachel nailed the narcissism aspect — we have a whole generation growing up with Youtube, MySpace, and Facebook to bolster their precious egos — perfect compliments to the disgusting and all-too-prevalent, spoiling style of parenting displayed by this mother. A ‘parenting’ style which is not about love: spoiling is the easy way out — it serves the spoiler and destroys the spoiled!
July 18th, 2008 at 10:20 amAs infuriating as that article is, it comes nowhere near hearing the live interview with this punk and his mother that we were subjected to on the evening news earlier this week here in Philly.
Here’s a description of Genovese’s court appearance as reported in last night’s paper (Philadelphia Daily News):
“According to one law enforcement source, Genovese was nowhere near as tough as he appears on his MySpace page when he turned himself in with his lawyer and family on Tuesday afternoon…the teen looked ‘pale-faced and kept throwing up’ the source said…Genovese didn’t say much, except that he was distraught over the incident”.
That’s the same reaction I had when I heard that interview.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:28 amThank you Rachel, for giving me the motivation to finally get cracking on inventing that time machine, so I can go back and sterilize both his parents before he was concieved!
July 18th, 2008 at 10:40 amBut we all know pop-culture and entertainment don’t influence the behavior of kids at all.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:49 am/s
re: 14 Karat
you were very lucky with your daughter.
How could you prevent her from leaving the house? If she wanted to just sneak out, you could not have stopped her. If you did something like chaining her to the radiator she could have you arrested
Nowadays hitting the kid, especially if there are witnesses, gives the child leverage against you. Granted, it happened in England, but look at what happened to Susan Pope
As far as “go out and buy your own adult things” you’re lucky she didn’t steal from your purse or pick the locks to rooms and cabinets to get things to sell to pawnshops so that she would be able to follow your advice.
re: Charybdis E. Scylla,
I agree with you about the early years. My female friend’s daughter didn’t have any effective punishment growing up (”daddy’s little princess”) so she was lost by 13.
-Counseling - was tried multiple times. 2 shrinks literally gave up and refused more appointments
-Boarding Schools/Boot Camps/Intervention Programs - sorry, but that runs $30K/year or more, unless you want a good chance of sending your kid off to be molested, or can wait 3+ years on the waiting list. This was tried for one year, and seemed to have instilled a good change. That illusion was broken by the discovery that two days after arriving home the daughter stole and sold $3,000 coins for $150.
-Call the police on them yourselves. - sure… and lose parental custody while the kid gets her face slashed in the juvie group home (as per police detectives who were asked about this)
-If they’re over 16, boot their ass out of your house - as other commenters pointed out, my friend would still be liable.
I feel sorry for parents today, they have all the responsibility but now have been stripped of most of the tools they used to be able to use.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:31 am“…the hard way to set me straight.” to hell!
July 18th, 2008 at 11:50 amYeah, another tough clueless punk.
… and then, there’s this end of the spectrum …
I just met with an 18-year-old pre-med student for advising. He Advance Placement tested out of the following freshman level classes: (so he’s jumping in at a college sophomore level).
Calculus
Physics
English
Chemistry
Biology
World Civilizations
Plus, he snowboards, volunteers as a hospital, loves his sister, is adjusted to life and has a sense of humor.
I love working with this end. What a joy. It gives me hope.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pmMike (AZ) says:
I do not give a d-mn what his politics are; fact is, this waste of Life probably has never voted for anyone, ever.
But I look at his picture and I see a waste of good air. Why is this piece of human sh-t still breathing fresh air?
So mommy thinks her little precious is getting the dirty end of the stick? Maybe mommy should be charged as an accessory for letting him live long enough to take the life of an innocent?
Where I live, we have a saying: “Some folks just deserve dieing.” It appears we have a candidate here.
BTW, my understanding is that today marks the 39th anniversary of the passing of that poor, unfortunate Mary Jo Kopecne, at the hands of the senior Boozer from the People’s Republic of Massacheutsets.
Maybe it’s the position of the planets or something.
One last: To Mongo, PLEASE punch a hippie for me, if you would. ‘Round here, we’ve got Goths, and Banger Wannabies, and a wide range of Wasted Humanity ranging from bosses to jocks, but we rounded up the last known hippie and shipped her off to Seattle in 1973. We didn’t have that many to begin with… with our heat, they’d get to PERSPIRING so bad that they couldn’t even stand to be with themselves, let alone hard-working, REAL people, so they sort of self-emmigrated to cooler climes.
Living here in the Sonoran Desert ain’t for sissies.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:50 pmNo doubt a lot of white youth are just enamored with the gangsta mentality and emulate it with their speech, dress, and actions.
This punk is a LOSER.
What is truly frightening is punks like this colossal asshole will be leading this society when I am retired. How absolutely depressing.
People like this should be used in secret military exercises as test subjects for new weapons and tactics.
At least they would serve ONE useful purpose before death.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pmRachel,
The more I read news of things such as Genovese wreaking havoc, the more I find myself loving your Needs-An-Ass-Beating Correctional Facility idea. Of course, for certain sickos, I would take it beyond that, especially if after being beaten a few times they still did not show some kind of regret or improvement in how they treat others. Little Joey needs to remember that little Willie Shakespeare said that revenge is a dish best served cold. If I got my way, should he, or certain other criminals, including rapists, child molestors, crack dealers, and mass murderers, not straighten up a bit after a certain number of extensive beatings, injured organs, and/or broken bones, they would be served as a cold dish. Or well, a wet, muddy, sobbing mess, out in some swamp on a cool night, tied up, eaten alive by gators. Any surviving victims and relatives of victims could watch. If they think the criminal has had enough they can pull a horn or something, a crane would try to lift the punk out of the water, and whatever they were left with at that time, if they could live that way, they would no longer have to endure beatings but would be in soliary confinement for life. However, if there was more than one victim, the criminal would go back into the swampy water, unless all victims and/or their relatives, perhaps a best friend even, had agreed for the criminal to take one turn for all crimes committed against that group of people. If no horn was blown or signal used to put an end to the feast, either by a victim or a group, the gator diner would leave the main entree out for consumption until the criminal was dead.
Criminals carrying dangerous or communicable illnesses would receive this treatment in a confined area, not in the wild, so as to minimize any risk of spreading infection.
And, yes, I understand this harkens back to the gruesome days of the guillotine and could be worse for society than the typical methods of carrying out a death sentence, especially if viewed by young, impressionable children. But we all have a side of us that wants the monsters in our societies to get their just desserts. Might even help reduce the number of innocent citizens being eaten or attacked by gators or similar forms of life in certain areas because they would be fully nourished and, thus, perhaps less likely to leave the swamps, creeks, etc. in an attempt to find food.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:19 pmQFT. My parents had me trained, I never messed with anyone’s stuff, and if I did the slightest thing wrong, all they had to do was look at me and I went straight to the corner. I am sure today that would be called child abuse. So would the washing out of my mouth with soap the ONE time I said anything bad. As would the ONE time I got switched for throwing a fit on my mother. Do it young, do it right, just do not go overboard, and you can save your kids from being juvenile delinquents or worse.
Even if one is not religious, or follows some faith not using what Christians refer to as the Old Testament, the book does have some wisdom. It says that if you love your child, you will discipline them, because if you do not, they will basically get worse and worse, and having no boundaries, no real consequences of their actions, they may not learn until it is too late, even unto death. It basically says if you do not do this, that you HATE your child, because if you loved them, you would teach them right so that they would have a good life. In the same area of spare the rod, spoil the child. Of course, back then, they did not have tv, video games, and skate boarding privileges to take away, so the only real option may have been spanking with a rod. But spanking, a reasonable spanking, should not be considered child abuse. Nor should be taking away privileges, standing them in a corner, etc.
Having dealt with the child welfare system, they will use any of these things to say one is harsh and should lose children. I have friends in the system who left it over the absurdity of the rules and how the rules, the laws, they must follow, forced them to take children from homes in which they were being properly raised.
Everything is being done in the name of protecting children and what do we get? Children that are more and more hurt and screwed up. Children that, at the Ohio state daycare where my sister worked, are not allowed to be told “no.” No time outs, either. You have to say, “this hurts my/little Susie’s feelings when you do that,” and then try to redirect their attention. I studied to become an educator, well, a music teacher, and my friends already in the education system are being told that in some public schools that they have to take any answer a student gives. They are not to tell them they are wrong. They can not grade them or fail them. No discipline, and no niceness either - a five year old cries and tries to hug their teacher or begs to sit on their lap or for a hug, some comfort, and, they are told that they must push them away.
July 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pmI’ve always thought that wastes of oxygen like this could be just marooned…after all, as Bugs Bunny would say, “What a maroon!”
Just drop our human waste (violent criminals, drunk/drugged drivers, politicians, other noxious slime) onto a deserted island somewhere. Preferably in the Arctic—we do own the Aleutians. See how long it takes for them to resort to cannibalism…and what kind of welcome the newcomers get, fresh from the soft life in the States!
You know, putting this on pay-per-view as a reality show would be even better than Battle Royale! And the victims would deserve it!
July 19th, 2008 at 9:30 pmTechnomad,
See “Escape from LA” : )
Snake Pliskin …. yessssss!
July 19th, 2008 at 9:49 pm