This one soo goes beyond “just you wait until your Father gets home.” Two teens allegedly had a telephone conversation in which they planned to murder one of their Mothers, rob the other, and steal her pickup truck before making their getaway together. The answering machine tape got it all. :eek:
The Mother’s Day cards with skulls and crossbones on them should have been a tip. :smack: The little shits.
I want to know what’s going on in those kids’ houses.
The kids were probably told to clean the dishes, take out the garbage, and vacuum.
Well there could be some bad stuff happenung OR it may be a case of the parents not being too happy about these kids being boyfriend and girlfriend. Or any number of things.
Not all parents whose kids plan to do or actually do these things are horrible parents.
OTOH not all kids who grow up in truely horrible homes kill or plan to koll their parents either. I can speak for this first hand.
Human beings are sometimes just very, very warped and nobody knows why in every case.
Ugh, I really have to stop posting without previewing until I get my eyes checked and my glasses changed.
Hee hee hee. Those kids are really gonna get it now.
Kids!
I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They a disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, dirty, lazy, loafers!
While we’re on the subject:
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can’t they be like we were,
Perfect in every way?
What’s the matter with kids today?
Kids!
I’ve tried to raise him the best I could
Kids! Kids!
Laughing, singing, dancing, grinning, morons!
And while we’re on the subject!
Kids! They are just impossible to control!
Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an’ roll!
Why can’t they dance like we did
What’s wrong with Sammy Caine?
What’s the matter with kids today
They’re too stupid to know that the answering machine is on???
The* BEEEP * didn’t give them a clue?
My guess would be that one of the parents suspected that something wrong was going on and wanted to know what the kids were up to so they used the 2-way record feature on the machine to monitor/record their conversation.
Mother, I want to…
I want to…
I want to cook you breakfast!
Father, I want to…
I mean I’d really like to…
I wanna borrow the car!
–from Phish’s cover of The Doors’ The End
Jesus, don’t you guys ever have conversations with your friends about who you’d like to kill and how you would do it?
You don’t? Just me then…
Perhaps this was some warped romantic thing, like a reverse Romeo and Juliette
Wow. Kids today, whatcha gonna do?
no, seriously, what? that’s spooky
I’ve owned answering machines that would record the entire conversation if I picked up when you started speaking. A half hour later, when mayhem and teen hot love has blurred the senses, who remembers that the tape is still a turnin?
I found this funnier than I have any right to. 
Another round of ammo for my campaign to ban that pretentious, sloppy dreck from middle schools forever.
Wasn’t this the original ending for American Beauty? (Well, except it was going to be the dads, not the moms…)
Reminds me of Juliet Hume and Pauline Rieper/Parker. Only abortive, of course.
The whole situation’s very disturbing though. From the article:
Can you imagine thinking your own child was capable of murder? And not just any murder, but your own? I imagine that as a very terrifying personal hell.
Every answering machine I have ever owned recorded for a only a few minutes, then beeped .
:eek:
Creepy. So very very creepy.
Kinda like Natural Born Killers?