ALL FOR A BOY

Mercedes Michaels gave an interview this morning on Good Morning America (or was it the Today Show???), recounting the beating that she received from four cowardly girls who jumped her at Sauk Village Park in Chicago on June 2nd. These girls were her friends.....and they jumped her because they wrongly accused Mercedes of "hooking up" with the ringleader's boyfriend, hence causing the boy to break up with her........which then warranted the girls teaching Mercedes a lesson.

The lesson not only consisted of jumping on her, punching her and kicking her while sitting on her and pinning her to the ground; they branded her face and left arm with a car cigarette lighter and her hair was chopped off with a pair of scissors which were also used to stab her repeatedly in the back. While all of this is happening, someone is taping the event with his cell phone - a phone which should have been used to call the police and then promptly put DOWN so that he could help the victim. Instead, this cruel and ridiculous act was recorded and then exclusively sent to Fox Chicago News, who promptly and ethically put it on the web. Right.

I am outraged by this story on so many levels, and I'm not really sure why I chose to write about it because I don't think I have enough time to really express my level of anger. Two of the girls are charged with aggravated felony battery and Mercedes, who is now physically and emotionally scarred, is still trying to figure out if she wants to go back to school. Her mother is begging her not to.

What the hell is going on with people? Oh no!! Your boyfriend broke up with you and he might like your friend.......so you should stab her, beat her, burn her and cut her fucking hair off? Oh, and let's not forget, go onto Myspace and brag about how "Ohhh we got that gurl nasty lol".

Good for you, you fucking idiots. I am impressed with your badge of pusillanimity, the ingenuity of shaming somebody else because YOU don't have what it takes to keep a man......oh, I'm sorry.....you guys are SEVENTEEN.....you don't have what it takes to keep a boy.

And bravo to the cell phone video extraordinaire who had the stomach to record the fight from start to finish, but couldn't lift a finger to help Mercedes. Let's just hope that if God forbid you're ever in a car accident or stuck in a fire, or held at gunpoint, that a passerby has enough decency and COMMON SENSE to use their phone to get help for your sorry ass.

And knowing our system, we're probably going to hear about how horrible your lives are and the reason you lashed out is because Mommy didn't hug you enough and didn't teach you right from wrong. Maybe you need therapy. Maybe you have anger management issues. Maybe not enough people told you how pretty you are. Maybe I would give a shit if I the sun were shining more brightly when I saw the interview this morning. Boo fucking hoo.

I'm just hoping there's a camera in your cell to capture the look on your face when you suddenly realize that you put your future in the shitter because you got dumped. Let's see if Fox News is still interested in you then.

Oh, and P.S. "gurl" is spelled with an "i".