you've always known he was into some bad things.
hanging out with people he had no business being with. doing things he had no business doing. only nineteen, the handsome little boy that you had such big dreams for has become someone you have a hard time recognizing anymore. the streets have gotten into his ear, corrupted his mind. it hurts your core to see him destroy his future like this, but what can you do? he's your son and you love him without fail.
when you heard about the raid on that street that he's always hanging on, a bad feeling crept over you. in your spirit you already knew. they had your baby. your only son was going to jail. it was later confirmed when you got that one sad call. hearing his dispirited tone broke your heart as he said quietly into the phone "I'm sorry."
drug trafficking.
ten to twenty years in federal prison. you felt as though that cold judge had handed that same sentence to you when you heard that gavel drop. the tears in your sons eyes proved his sorrow. he was finally getting his rude awakening.
sixty long days later, around 3 a.m., you are suddenly jerked awake by a thunderous pounding on your bedroom window. you panic, look to your window and see what looks to be the silhouette of your son, still in his prison orange.
"mom!! help me! open the door! please!! open the door!"
he pounds harder, his muffled screams you make out through the window begging you to let him in. he has escaped. he is remorseful and promises to do a complete 180 if you help him.
Question: what would you do if this happened to you?
33 comments:
A complete 160?! That's hilarious! Dude is in dire straights, runnin' from the law in a bright orange (my favorite color, by the way) jump suit, and he's trying to convince you to commit a felony by telling you he's not gonna completely straighten out and do a 180, but he's gonna come 20 degree points within a complete turnaround!? LOL! Priceless. Well, at least he's an honest escaped con, LOL! I'd let him in and call po-po.
Um...what could I do? I would turn him in. This is apparently the way he chose to learn this lesson. Because by this time, I am sure I have exhausted all options on trying to help him get it together...so...sorry son! Mamma will always love you, though. I will keep your commissary full, but you are not about to get ME locked up too!
Baby this is what they calls a bad situation. Hell I loves all 13 of my childrens but I ain't doing a lick of hard time for nane one of them. Ain't no way in hell Imma be up in prison braiding no big bully butch hair taking orders like her ole' bitch (Lawd forgive me) washing out her stanky panty drawers. Sorry but Mama Ruthie Ann ain't go be able to do that one. Chances are I'd pass my boy some of my gluacoma medicine and a few dollars. I'd tell him to smoke a bit and thank (it helps me thank alot) while he runs the hell away from my house. Take care now.
Signed
Ruthie Ann
lol. typo nupe.
I would turn him in. I would tell him I loved him and pray for him.
This reminds me of the final scene in "The 25th Hour" where Edward Norton's dad is driving him to prison so he can turn himself in, but tells him that they could just drive far far away and he could live a different life and get a second chance.
This would be a tough situation, but as much as I would love my child, what lesson would I really be teaching him by letting him in? Couldn't do it. He made the choice to be a big boy and do big boy things, let him suffer the consequences that come along with it.
Oh. Neva mind. I thought you were just being abstruse.
But I'd still let him in, feed him, and have him hauled the heck back. (And how would he get all the way from federal prison to my crib dressed like a color-blind pimp anyway?! Heck, I should let him stay for that accomplishment alone!)
If it was my pops...(which is always in and out of jail)....
send his ass back!! lol
While it would hurt my heart, I'd have to turn him in...
Sucks but I'd much rather see him in prison than dead as a result of a drug deal gone bad.
if i had the resources i would try to get him out of the country, if not i would make sure i got the best lawyer i could to plead his case when he ass went back to prison.
I don't know.... but since if i had the guts to take myself to law school... I'd do what i only know.. drive him back... while in the car... i will tell him how happy I am that he has learned his lesson and that I will fight to get him out... wait a min american law is different then Canadian... let me go read up on criminal law before i can answer....
My son wouldn't have to worry about the police. Who he WOULD have to worry about is me. No way in the world am I going to allow my freedom to be takent because of "another" mistake that my child has made, and about to get me caught up.
I would hate to say it, but I would call 911.
yea i'd have to send him back 2 cuz helping a criminal escape carries hard time too and who gon keep his commissary up if i'm in lockup my damn self? plus, i'm a firm believer in consequences.
Hindsight is 20/20, but getting your salad tossed is coming right up. You going back, Son!
Sad to say, and I'd do it with tears in my eyes but honestly I'd tell him he couldn't come back to my home. I don't know if I have other kids at the time but the focus should be on self and others that depend on me.
I would tell him to leave my home. And when the police comes I would tell the truth, he came by but I asked him to leave.
But I do feel like when he first started hanging out I would have been pro-active. Signing him up for sports, taking him out of town for the week-ends, filling his life up full of so much of me, and us, the streets wouldn't have been tempting.
yeah... he's going back. He'd have about 10 seconds to remove himself from my sight before I called 5-0 to come get his drug-traficking a**
I don't go to jail for anybody else's foolishness. As we say in BK:
"sorry, SON!!"
i think i would let him in. sit him down. talk to him.
i would try to convince him to go back.
but honestly, he didn't kill anyone. and i know my moral standards might be questioned, but i'd seriously have a hard time turning in my only son.
if my brother, right now, told me he was doing something like that and got caught i would have a hard time turning him in. i can't see my brother go to jail.i can't.
it's funny how i was right in my thinking that if susan lefevre (the white woman that escaped whom i was talking about in my monday post) was a black man, he would have never gotten away with 'turning his life around' and completely escaping.
susan lefevre's grandfather was waiting for her when she escaped with a car and his rosary. got her out of there.
now that's gangsta.
I have 4 girls and 1 son and I love that boy to death, but if messed like that. I would let him in, hold him tight and cuss him out for messing up, once again. "Boy, I taught you better than that. Now you got more time than you had."
but i'd seriously have a hard time turning in my only son.
You would actually risk your freedom? You will be charged with harboring a fugitive, and the feds will get a conviction.
Um... I don't have any windows in my room!!!
Okay... this right here-- got me thinking - I don't to be apart of any mess - yet, this my baby -
I would open the door and cry..and tell him to run...cause he can't stay here - give him a few hundreds and let it ride - OH not in my car.. just ride on them Nike's - or the greyhound -
IF the police come - I ain't seen a thang!
this is hard but i am a play it by the rules kinda woman. if you done the dirt, pay for it.
he'd have to do his time.... after i whupped his head for busting out. what kinda idiot boy does that?
they are going to tear his ass up upon his return but it beats being a fugitive where they're going to find and beat the hell outta him anyway.
id let him in curse him out for his damn foolishness
I mean for real
all that drug trafficking he was doing
how come he aint had an emergency fugitive fund stashed away?
ima be like
son i love you
Lord knows i do but ill be damned if u gon bring this drama to me like this.
i warned u about that lifestyle didn't i?
Now here's a care package
get your ass outta here
ima give u an hour head start
gets to running boy
remember
mama loves you
hon u came correct with that, now thats a conundrum
After I wipe the crust out my eyes and make sure I really see what I see, I'd let him in, cook him a good meal, and let him take a nice, long, hot bath while I call the cops to pick his but back up.
Since this is my only child and I believe he has changed then I would run.
Just like the 80's movie "Running on Emty". As long as I had the means...we would be out of Dodge.
First off, I'm not going to jail for harboring a fugitive.
Dudes know what can potentially happen to them when they live that life. If that's the one he chose to be in and he got caught, he has to do his time. Crying to mom doesn't absolve him of that "responsibility."
hmm...thats my son.
yea he fucked up...but that still my son....i might have to risk it.
I would let him in, dry him off. Have a long talk over some hot Tea. Pray with him and tell him to ask God for forgiveness and then hand him the phone to turn himself in.
I'd yell back thru the window: "PROVE that u can change! U bettah lose that orange jumpsuit - take a page from The FUGITIVE or Shawshank Redemption = move to a new country - take on a new identity, learn to be resourceful & get your life together. Then send me a postcard later, Jose or Enrique or whatever your new name is! Vaya con Dios (go with God)!"
I'd turn him in... he should have never been in that situation in the FIRST place... sorry, love ya to death, but you're not gonna learn anything if you take the easy way out. It's not like it's 25to life
I'd make sure Al Sharpton and a camera crew was present when the authorities arrived to pick him up.
A video record of his physical appearance would be on file in case he is abused when he returned to prison.
He would still be my son and I would continue to do what's best for him.
I shooooow hate it, but I would have to turn him in. It would kill me though.
Not that I am a mother, but if I were a father. I would first have a long talk with the child about responsibility and such. I would then say that he must go back to jail to deal with the ramifications of his actions. If he listens I would drive him to jail to turn himself back in, and I would let him know that as his father I love him and I will do what I can to help him get the tools he needs to never return to such a life.
Now if he didn't listen he would have to leave. I would give him a 1 hour head start and then I would of course inform someone in law enforcement that I trust of the situation.
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