It hasn't been a good day.

Taber was known throughout Alberta for its famous corn. Every year a truck was parked by the side of the road on the outskirts of towns around the province hacking their delicious cobs.
In 1999 everything changed. Taber became known as Canada’s Columbine, when Todd Cameron Smith entered the school and killed another student.
He was convicted and sentenced. Good, justice done.
Unfortunately on Monday, he walked out of his open-custody treatment centre in Toronto. According to the story in the Globe and Mail, he left the centre without permission OR an escort.
Canada should be ashamed for brutally punishing Smith in such a way.
All he did was slaughter an innocent individual. That shouldn’t warrant anything more than a scolding, maybe a slap on the wrist.
An open-custody treatment centre is like condemning a person to hell. The severe conditions are crippling.
He was probably tortured with three meals a day, a comfy bed and fancy blanket. I bet he even had a colour TV and visitation rights whenever he wanted.
It must have been a horrible place. He couldn’t even ask for permission or wait for an escort to leave. I doubt I can even imagine the appalling conditions he had to endure.
He was nice enough to leave a note that read "I can't be caged any more. If they find me, they'll have to kill me. I will never be caged again. Bye. Sorry."
He’s sorry. That’s so sweet. I feel bad for the poor, young lad. All he did was kill someone.
Twenty-four hours after he walked out the door of the centre, he’s been brought back. I sincerely hope they actually punish this person.

Story read on the Globe and Mail website.
A Canadian abductee was slain by Iraqi kidnappers. They wanted $250,000 in ransom.
I read the first paragraph of the story and was pissed off that no one was willing to pay the money.
I was thinking that no one believes this person is worth more than a quarter million dollars. It made me wonder how much my life was worth. Would anyone be able to or want to raise that amount of money for me? Hmmmm.
Anyway, I kept reading. It turns out the family was willing to pay the money. The kidnappers just didn’t make the call to arrange the switch. Instead, they shot the guy.
Now, I’m thinking how stupid some people in the world are.
Kidnapping is not a hard concept to grasp.
Take person, ask for ransom and receive ransom. One phone call is vital to the plan if all the information is exchanged.
Necessary information includes: amount of money and exchange point.
If all the information isn’t exchanged in the first call, a second call can and must be made for a successful kidnapping/ransom caper.
These guys never made the second call.
The kidnappers are now murderers and don’t have the $250,000 that they went through the whole ordeal for.