Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4849011-20150322002931/@comment-25326117-20150402023948

Raidra wrote: My gosh, that vigilante story is horrifying! The sad thing is it's not the only frightening vigilante story I've read. That supports my belief that the scariest things happen in real life. You have to wonder how vigilantes like that feel when they discover that their victims were innocent, or how their relatives feel when they discover their actions weren't as noble and courageous as they'd been led to believe. Are they consumed with guilt and shame? Do they try to ignore the facts? Do they try to justify their actions? I don't want to speculate here (for one thing, there's no single answer), but it might be good story material.

I still haven't read George Washington's Socks, but it and that other book sound interesting. I'm glad to hear about quality books because I'm so sick of this bosh you see on shelves nowadays. It's sad when some characters die, but as a writer myself I know that sometimes you have to kill characters for emotional effect or to make a point. By the way, those skirts with the poodles are simply called poodle skirts. Don't you wish all answers were that easy? I am sure you can find 'My Louisiana Sky' and 'George Washington's Socks' on Amazon. For kids' books, they are pretty deep and entertaining. I am still trying to figure out what that book I read was about the black teen that murdered a white cop that had been harming his family.

Vigilantism is pretty scary. I remember hearing about two Skinheads that got their asses handed to them by a black gang, so they continued on their dangerous misadventure. It was a man and a woman, I believe. These two morons found a disabled man and they beat him so badly that it wound up killing the poor person. I believe this was an actual case, but my vague description might be hard for anybody to track it down. I think the case took place on some traintracks.