Cops leave kid to die?

[Trumpess]

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...e-failing-son/


What a f**ken cop out!

I feel for the father and family involved, but he WAS NOT left there to die on purpose! A very alarming story just the same.

Huge phopa on the cops behalf for not checking the area properly, or to see if anyone else was in the car at the time of the accident. A big oppps.

But for gods sake - left there to die??

[madbikeboy]

Interesting - the Herald article mentioned that the cops looked for 30 minutes, but the weather was raining and dark...

It's hard to find someone in those circumstances if you know you're looking for them...

[Murray]

If his 2 "mates" were able to be taken to hospital by car why the hell didn't they ask after the other guy???

Surely it should have read "father blames mates for missing son!!!!!!"

[slofox]

Radio this morning said the two "mates" were "un-cooperative"....so kick their arses first.....

[Nasty]

His mates left him to die .. not the cops ... HIS MATES if you can call them that knew he was there .. the cops didn't.

[Indoo]

Huge phopa on the cops behalf for not checking the area properly, or to see if anyone else was in the car at the time of the accident. A big oppps.
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Why would you do a huge area search if your told at the scene that there were only 2 people in the car and that they were taken away by another car. To expect them to somehow divine that there's someone injured, in a ditch some 30 metres away hidden by the dark and rain is kinda ridiculous.

He chose his mates and then chose to get in the car with them, they chose to leave him to die on the side of the road and not even tell anyone about him, for his Dad to somehow blame the Police rather than the choices his son and his mates made is ridiculous.

[AlBundy]

Indeed....

[Fatjim]

i can't believe anybody reads the papers except for Dilbert and the crossword.

[Tank]

If I was conscious there is no way I'd leave an accident without my mates.

I find it hard to imagine anyone doing so.

[Tank]

i can't believe anybody reads the papers except for Dilbert and the crossword.

I read the letters to the editor.

Its the funniest thing ever. Every day I'm more and more amazed by people's stupidity.

I sure the Editor prints them just for shits and giggles.

[slofox]

If I was conscious there is no way I'd leave an accident without my mates.

I find it hard to imagine anyone doing so.

Coupla years ago here a young fulla drove his car off the bridge into the river with passengers aboard. He got out, swam to shore and went home to bed without telling anybody...passengers drowned.....

[Hitcher]

The cops were allegedly told there were only two people in the car, and they had accounted for both of those. One of the car's occupants was allegedly obstructive and non-cooperative in their dealings with the cops. It was 1:00am and raining.

This sounds suspiciously like a bunch of ne'er-do-wells out hooning around in a vehicle that may not have been theirs to hoon in, when it all went pear-shaped.

Hardly the fault of the Police in any respect, I would have thought.

[imdying]

hooning around in a vehicle that may not have been theirs to hoon in

Oh? They were thieves? Well that's easy then... fuck em. Police shouldn't pull trash like that out of ditches in the rain, they should put their foot on the muppets throat for a good 6 minutes

[Badjelly]

Oh? They were thieves? Well that's easy then... fuck em. Police shouldn't pull trash like that out of ditches in the rain, they should put their foot on the muppets throat for a good 6 minutes

No, they should pull trash like that out of ditches in the rain, but in the circumstances they can't be blamed (at all) for failing to notice he was there.

[Beemer]

The cops were allegedly told there were only two people in the car, and they had accounted for both of those. One of the car's occupants was allegedly obstructive and non-cooperative in their dealings with the cops. It was 1:00am and raining.

This sounds suspiciously like a bunch of ne'er-do-wells out hooning around in a vehicle that may not have been theirs to hoon in, when it all went pear-shaped.

Hardly the fault of the Police in any respect, I would have thought.

But Hitcher, it must be the fault of the police! Surely you can't expect the parents of this lovely 17 year-old to accept ANY blame for him being out with a couple of his mates at 1am?

This is what the latest report said: "Feilding's Jordan Bowler, 17, is in a critical condition on life support, after being thrown 28 metres across a road after the car he was a passenger in crashed on a Napier Rd bend.

The driver of the Ford Falcon and another passenger left the scene before police arrived five minutes after the accident. Though two police officers and four people searched the area for 30 minutes, they failed to find Mr Bowler, who was lying injured in berry bushes."

They said he MAY have stumbled into the bushes in a disoriented state, but either way, his mates had left the scene of the accident and were not cooperating with the police so it's not fair to blame the police. He probably wasn't wearing a seat belt in any case.

This is a very telling quote from his father: "Mr Cribb could not explain why his son's two friends left the scene without him. "I'm pretty gutted about it - they are my cousins. I told them 'you left my boy in there', but they weren't all there."" Weren't all there? As in their brains were missing? Or they weren't there physically? Why not blame them? They crashed the car after all, not the police!

And it sounds like the father didn't even go looking for him until the morning, so the kid obviously didn't have a time he had to be home by - shit, my mother would have killed me if I were out all night at 17!