Accidents happen

Yet more proof that accidents do happen.

Friday afternoon I picked up a refrigerator for Nick that he had repaired not far from our house. Shortly after loading the refrigerator I was rear-ended by an AT&T truck (yes it hurt). The AT&T truck was in sad shape yet I managed to escape with little more than a slightly pushed-down rear bumper. Yes, God was indeed looking out for me on Friday.

Here's the AT&T truck waiting for a tow. His radiator was broken by my receiver and he lost all of his coolant in the street. Now where is the EPA when you need them? No Hazmat Team was called either. Yet, it's illegal for me to spill even the smallest amount of coolant in my driveway?


And here's the rear-end of my truck.



The other driver was ticketed and now I must appear in court to testify on January 23rd in Downtown Kansas City (sarcastic yea.) Now the good news. Nick's refrigerator was unhurt throughout all of this. Strange stuff.

This next story is very sad. Read full story here.

Melbourne: Alcoholism is so rampant among Australian youngsters that girls as young as 11 get into prostitution just for a couple of cans of beer, a report by Sydney's Odyssey House revealed.

The annual report said children as young as 10 were being admitted to Odyssey's treatment program for alcohol abuse.

According to Sydney youth campaigner and head of Youth Off the Streets, Father Chris Riley, it was not surprising that the report showed that kids as young as 10 were abusing alcohol. Father Riley said that his personal experiences helping troubled kids were echoed in the report.

"In some of the communities we're working in at 9.30 in the morning, 12- (and) 13-year-olds have bottles of Jack Daniels in their hands, and it is just shocking the way these things are available to kids," news.com.au quoted Father Riley, as saying.