it’s always tragic when someone dies, and never more so when it’s a cliche, i mean child
According to sections of the press (local, tabloid, Evening Standard), kids these days are rampaging feral yobs with no respect for community, property or life itself.
Until one of them dies, perhaps rolling their new Corsa with the stickers on or stabbed by one of their mates for 50p of Orange top-up vouchers and a Double Decker, and suddenly they’re “vivacious” and “full of life”, with “so much to give”, even those that have “had their problems”.
Someday a kid will die and everyone will say “Oooh, he was a right little bastard.”