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Spring Break piercing declarations
March 26th, 2008, 9:30 am · 8 Comments · posted by mcazalas
How many parents cringed today when they saw the picture on page B-1 of the young Spring Breaker getting her navel pierced?
That’s the kind of stupid stuff I pulled when I was 18 and full of myself.
The 18-year-old blonde from Arkansas told a News Herald reporter she was piercing her navel for a variety of reasons, mainly: she thinks its “cute,” she was under peer pressure, and she wanted to do something her mother, now hundreds of miles away, didn’t want her to do.
It was her way of declaring her independence from mommy, she said.
“I dont have to tell her anything until I’m home,” she said, “She knows she can’t stop me from getting it done.”
How many parents, like me, stopped at that point and wondered who exactly paid for this young lady’s trip and who is paying for her continuing education?
If the answer to any of those is “mommy” or “daddy,” she might want to rethink her declaration of independence.
For the record, when I moved to Panama City in 1983 my father welcomed me inside with open arms. He ordered my earring to remain outside, and so it did.
This is concrete proof that Caz is going through an early midlife crisis because this story is such a freggin’ waste of ink and bandwidth. Newsworthy how?
I’ll admit, the belly button ring is the only, and I mean only, piercing that I find to be attractive. FYI though, my wife had one and it had to come off when she was pregnant. That was 6 years ago and she still has a noticable scar on her navel. She hates it.
You appear to have nothing news worthy to write about so you piggy back off someone elses story. No one cares about some kid getting a piercing, no one cares about your morning coffe, no one cares about your deer or turkey adventure. We come here to read news.You must be one lonely man to print garbage as this. There is enough issues going on here in Bay County you could bore us with, without getting into the spring break antics of young kids.
Get out of that chair and go chase down a real story.
Mikey…
Go to the hinterland. You are not chained to your chair. You have a multi-county distribution. Become a multi-county writer.
What did Tunnell really do while working for Meadows? Why are there so many unsolved homicides (Cold Cases) in Jackson County?
What is happening in Compass Lake, Sunny Hills, Dogwood Lake, Wewa, Defuniak, etc.? When was the last time you drove to an out lying county, engaged in conversation with a citizen and ask is the Sheriff doing what he said he was going to? Is your county commissioner doing what he promised. Do you think your taxes are high? What do you think about the presidential election? Are we in a recession? A depression? Ask them what they think about Bay County? What is available for kids to do besides going to the beach? Where can they find jobs? When does the cost of gas out weigh the worker commuting to their job at the Beach, Destin, Tallahassee. Is there medical care available? What does someone do if they have a heart attack and it takes 40 minutes for EMS to arrive? What changes do you see in elected officials because it is an election year.
You have the ability- now ask.
^^^^^^^^^^What’s worse? Not having anything to write about, or taking the time to type out a nasty, hateful comment to a writer at the news herald? And why in god’s name would you name yourself that? Why not just name yourself “Evil-demon-monkey? Karl Rove is a douchebag.
Wow, stop the insanity. You’re all class. Name calling, vulgarities, personal insults. You have it all covered. What an embarrassment. Why are you such a snob? Why do you attack people who come here to read THE NEWS with your putdowns? What is it about someones kid getting a piercing, where Caz gets his coffee, or what he does on the weekend do you find news worthy? You seem like a very angry and frustrated person.
Where did you get your belly button pierced?
Alright, stop squabbling. Why does everything in a newspaper have to be about hard news. Many, if not most, papers I know about contain human interest stories and some even have Lifestyle sections. Why not write in ideas for stories instead of attacking a writer who writes about a subject that doesn’t interest you?
I have to agree with Karl, this does seem to be kinda of a stupid thing to write an article about, however, if you have checked out Mike’s videos, he really doesn’t get out too much.