Our courts should not be used to cover bad parenting...

I saw this news article and really just want to scream.

Last year, a "misunderstood soul" (who just happened to be a wanted felon) decided to end his run from the law in spectacular fashion.  He did so, eventually on live TV, in the process carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint and shooting at officers during the chase.  In a minor timing error, Fox New did not properly use the 5 second delay and the end of the chase was broadcast, wherein the suspect decided to end it on his terms by shooting himself in the head.  Now, I have no love for the modern journalist, since mostly they have reduced the profession to sensationalized stories designed to sell, not necessarily tell the truth.  Nor am I fan of the live helicopter feed to the news room.  But still, as it sits, I don't blame them for anything more than any other station has shown.

I saw another article looking in depth at the events leading up to that car chase.  What I saw was a petty criminal building up to bigger crimes.  While tragic events did happen in his life, nobody forced him to buy drugs.  Nobody forced him to acquire a gun with a felony record.  Nobody forced him to get drunk and fight with his girlfriend.  He made those choices.  He chose to end it like that.  People lose family members to violence and illness every day and don't follow his path.

The ball of suck and fail comes in afterwards.  The children of the suspect heard at school that a televised car chase ended in an on air suicide.  So after school they rushed home to see the even on YouTube.  Only after they watched it did they realize that it was their father and suddenly they were traumatized.  Now the mother of said children has filed suit against Fox News because they broadcast the end of the chase.  Apparently the children are too traumatized after seeing the event to go to school.

Here's the problem with that.  First, your children were searching this out on their own after hearing about it. If it wasn't their father, this would have just been a guy they saw on the internet that they would have bragged about watching the next day at school.  We already know that their father was not a shining example of good behavior by his criminal record and his actions in his last weeks of life.  All I see on the mother's side now is a opportunistic woman looking to cash in on the lottery, using the failure of her and their now deceased father to properly parent as an excuse to sue for millions.  I want this to get thrown out of court.  Unfortunately, Fox will likely settle and get on with business and this lady will blow all of that money in 2 years.