PETERS – Paint spill is smalltown gossip fodder, not proof teens are terrible
(Image: Facebook, Al Fitter)
THE BIG PAINT SPILL this week is something that will go down in the annals of small-town gossip history for Logan Lake.
A 16-year-old is accused of emptying a huge paint drum on a parking lot, turning kilometres and kilometres of highway lines into one big pool of mustard-coloured waste.
What is, on its surface, a fairly minor incident, provides the perfect mix of ingredients to feed the B-Sers for months: it’s a rare occurrence, it cost a moderately large amount of money – and one of those punk kids was responsible.
“Kids these days.”
“Parents these days.”
“Our joke of a justice system.”
“Who’s gonna pay?”
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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This young punk needs to be forced to spend however long it takes to help clean up this mess. If that cannot be done outside a union contract which might require him to be paid, then he needs to be put in a position which will ensure he contributes in a meaningful way to the community he has wronged,. Here’s hoping something positive will come out of this for him.
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