• Living in the twilight zone amongst strangers • What business will be next? • Sympathies to the family • Prisoner in my own house Living in the twilight zone amongst strangers TGI recently ran a story titled, “14-month-old girl
• Living in the twilight zone amongst strangers
• What business will be next? •
Sympathies to the family • Prisoner in my
own house
Living in the twilight zone amongst strangers
TGI recently ran a story titled, “14-month-old girl dies in crash.” If one reads the paper online there is s a comments section and many readers, myself included like to interact with the stories and other readers.
This past Sunday a baby girl was killed in a three-car accident as their vehicle rear-ended a stopped vehicle and the baby was thrust forward and died. Two children in the back wearing seatbelts were uninjured as was the father who was driving with his little girl on his lap.
The father was arrested for manslaughter but released later pending an investigation. Nothing like kicking a guy when he’s down.
Most of us have either held a child in our lap while driving or have been on their parent’s laps as children while they drove. I remember my father driving with me on his lap as I pretended to drive as a child.
Here are a few of the online comments, “Wow, the victim is the CHILD. The father should be publicly chastised. Throwing out forgiveness from the beginning is not always the best idea when you want to AVOID this behavior in the future.” “Stating the obvious (the driver was stupid to have her on his lap) is not being ‘cold’ and ‘insensitive’. Nothing else being said is ‘that out-of-line’. Gees… People need to get thicker skins and step away from the Care Bears.”
Nothing can bring the baby back. C’mon folks, have some empathy and sympathy here. There were some sympathetic commenters but most comments were very cold toward a father who just lost his baby.
I feel like I am living on in the twilight zone amongst some of the least caring people in the world. Those without sin cast the first stone.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
What business will be next?
The closing of Borders on Kaua‘i is not unexpected as so much of the book business is now being done on the Internet.
As a return visitor to Kaua‘i for quite a few years and a bookseller for almost 40 years, I have seen the business change so much since the early 1970s.
The brick and mortar shops are disappearing on the Mainland as well as in Hawai‘i due to high rent, utilities, insurance and customer buying habits.
As a local Kaua‘i resident, folks can help by supporting Talk Story book shop in Hanapepe and any other shops that might open (including mine if I can relocate).
Amazon Kindle books and the like are also cutting into a bookseller’s marketplace. As many of you are also aware, the United States government will soon be closing thousands of post offices as well.
More people are paying bills online and using less stamps and postage at their local post offices. Consider this when you pay your next bill online or make your next purchase on the Internet.
Will your local favorite business or post office be the next Borders?
Jim Gscheidle, Cambridge, Md.
Sympathies to the family
It’s not for lack of education but lack of enforcement that could have prevented the baby’s death Sunday in the Kukui Grove accident. Maybe have a checkpoint once a week at various locations on the island.
This tragedy could have been avoided but let’s not point any fingers, instead why don’t we donate any child car seats we are not using to a charity i.e. Salvation Army and put out the word that these are available free to any family with babies and toddlers under 40 pounds. We could do the same with booster seats.
Our sympathies go out to the family who lost their precious child.
Cliff and Cecelia Waeschle, Kilauea
Prisoner in my own house
What does it take to have our government open their eyes and make a decision on barking dogs?
In 1982 there was a proposed ordinance which was targeted as “hunters vs. haoles.” Let me tell you something people, it’s not hunters vs. haoles.
I am a true local born and raised girl with ties to great hunters and I have not experienced the level of dogs barking as I have recently with my neighbor.
I have made numerous calls to the Kaua‘i Humane Society and the police department. I have written e-mails to our County Council and again, no response.
I close my windows and doors so I can carry a conversation with my friends and family. Literally, I’m a prisoner in my own house.
Come people control your dogs, that’s all we ask for.
Karen Ono
Lihu‘e
