The World's Smallest Violin
Our local daily reports that a young boy named Conor Holliday "has broken his ribs, wrist, ankle, shattered a bone in his left foot and fractured the Lisfranc joint in his foot - all in the name of the adrenaline rush that is skateboarding." Mr. Holliday now complains that he dislikes paying a $10 fee to use the town's skateboarding park, which costs taxpayers $40,000 annually to operate, and threatens to take his business elsewhere.

My question is, who's been paying this idiot's medical bills? If he's a ward of the state, then it's our tax dollars being used to patch him up and send him out to do it again. If it's private insurance, then it's our rising premiums achieving the same thing. Either way, maybe his parents should concede the obvious - the kid can't skate - and take away his board so he doesn't hurt himself, or our wallets, again. Failing that, make the kid pay the damn admission fee. Hrrmph!