Just a Rant.

Earlier today I was perusing through the local headlines on my trusty iPhone. I generally do this every morning while I drink my coffee. Sometimes I laugh at the headlines, other times I want to cry. Today’s headlines just disgusted me. And I’m not even referring to the political ones. The world of politics and most of whom inhabit it obviously have their own set of rules and have perfected the art of being callous assholes (and the art of hypocrisy) to astonishingly high levels. But I digress.

The common thread in today's headlines is greed. The greed of some people, especially those who have been placed in a position that is synonymous with trust. For example, McLin Funeral Home. According to the Dayton Daily News, McLin’s license has been permanently revoked; in part due to at least $100,000 that's missing. That money was paid to the funeral home from people who had the forethought to prepay for their funerals or the funerals of their loved ones. However, it looks like the funeral home can’t come up with the money and doesn’t know where it is. 

My ass.

How can you lose $100,000? (Makes me wonder if they took business lessons from Raleigh Trammell, another fine upstanding local businessman.) Of course, the problems don’t end there. According to the DDN, this funeral home also neglected to pick up a body from the coroner’s office for three weeks, held another body for ransom (meaning they wouldn’t release the body for burial until they were paid…wait, what? Who the hell does that? Oh that’s right, McLin Funeral home, obviously.) Let me tell you my theory – I think many of the customers of this particular funeral home are probably on the lower income scale. People who are in a position of power or trust often get the idea that they can take advantage of people who might not know any better or probably don’t have the means to fight them. Quite honestly I think that’s what happened here and it’s vile. 

But the headlines don’t stop there.

Some hilljack in Huber Heights (no offense to others that live Huber, not all of them are hilljacks) stole over $4000 after a sporting event a few months ago. Really? You’re stealing from a school? From children? That makes you a special kind of stupid. That’s a lot of money to those of us who work for a living instead of stealing. Now it seems the athletic director (who is also the coach for the team that played in this particular sporting event) is the one who is going to be responsible for paying the money back. That guy was COACHING his team and had nothing to do with the receipts or the money that was being collected – yet because of someone else’s greed, he is the one who ultimately has to pay the money back. Nice. Penalize the people who are helping kids and teaching them skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. 

I can only hope the people who stole the money from the school went to McClin Funeral Home and prepaid for their funeral.