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[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Friday 16 April 2004 05:26 pm, Pete Hardie wrote:
| Agreed - there was a news story a fews years back where a Texan
| home owner shot a drunk exchange student who was beating
| on his door.

Ah, but the story was far more tragic than that.

The foreign exchange student wasn't drunk -- just lost in a
subdivision of nearly identical houses.  He had been with his
new family for less than a week and had gone out for an evening
walk. He got totally scrambled in the dark and knocked on the
"wrong" door. Harry Homeowner opened the door, saw an Asian/
alien face, and started blasting.
He should have been convicted of manslaughter at a minimum.

I followed the story because in earlier times our family hosted
a total of four foreign exchange students. One each from Denmark,
Finland, Germany and Brazil. Three stayed for a year; the Finn
couldn't handle the silence of the boonies where we lived at
the time!  His mental picture of America was an endless line of
malls to be cruised alongside other teenagers. WE were living
a mile down a dirt road in a county so empty it had no stoplights.
He couldn't cope.  The others did fine, including the Brazilian,
who came from downtown Rio! Now that was culture shock!.

Sean


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