I have a new job

I have a new job. It is in a bail bonds business. This is a job which has never been in my mind before.

This is a business which gets people out of jail for 10% of the bond amount. If the bond is $5000, the bond fee is $500. For any charge higher than a misdemeanor c, there is a filing fee of $15 for each charge. A misdemeanor bond can go no higher than $5000.

Higher bonds from $10,000 up are felonies and can go as high as a judge in a bad mood can reach. Of course, a murder charge tends to make a judge cranky. A murder charge in a small county can make any judge out of sorts, to say the least.

A day or two ago, four young girls in their late teens decided to take about a three-hour trip to a lake to have some end-of-summer fun with marijuana, alcohol and possibly additional substances. They drove through a small town. Perhaps they were having some sips of alcohol along the way, including the driver. The driving might have been less than spectacular and a patrol officer pulled the car over.

Long story, short, they went to jail and spent the night.

Each respective parent bailed out the daughter.

Anyone see something wrong with this picture? Hello, Parents. This entire scenario could have been avoided had the parents anticipated what the kids were up to and said, "Yah know, I think you should find some fun closer to home. Why do you want to go so far away?"

A teenager goes as far away from home to do something wrong, hoping not to get caught. Well, these girls got caught. Hopefully, they learned a lesson. Hopefully the parents learned a lesson as well.

There's no telling.