Reading recent headlines, it seems that kids from virtually every neighborhood can have a tough time growing up. Consider Ian Guzzo of Two Harbors ("Guzzo guilty of helping plan home invasion," June 30) or the three kids from the Cloquet burglaries ("Three in custody in Cloquet burglaries," July 9).
Just last month, on the same night my neighbor had a graduation party for his son, my garage on Reinke Road was burglarized. I suspect the kids who robbed me are considered good kids, and they probably are, in most respects.
And so I have to ask: Do you know where your kids are and what they are doing? If you looked in your child's car or in that shed out back and found my new, yellow-and-black, Jiffy ice auger or my 11-year-old Shindaiwa chainsaw, would you do the right thing? I'd be willing to let parents handle the punishment if my stuff came back. I suspect one, and probably two, Hermantown parents would be disappointed with what they found.
Will you do the right thing now -- or will you wait until these good kids wind up alongside Guzzo and the three from Cloquet?
Blake Twyford
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