Lowering the Bar

The song asks, "How low can you go," and I now have an answer.

Two under-aged teens and their barely legal-aged friend went on a stabbing spree the other evening, robbing a local walk-about ice cream vendor and then attacking 2 women who were flattening boxes for recycling at a local convenience store. All 3 victims will be fine, but will live the rest of their lives knowing that these 3 young people stabbed them because the girlfriend wanted to know how much her boyfriend loves her.

Yes, you read right: the motive for the stabbings, which just as easily could have been fatal, was some sort of test of true love.

The good news coming out of this incident, if there is good news, is that the mother of the girl heard her daughter and the boyfriend talking about what they had done -- and called the police. Integrity is doing the right thing just because it's the right thing to do, and this mother put herself on the line to do the right thing.

The mother can never undo what her daughter and her two friends did to their victims, but, perhaps, she will have prevented another victim from suffering at the hands of these criminals.