mood swings

It's odd. Sometimes when I read stories like this, where a boy accidentally hanged himself trying to prank his family, and I think to myself how appropriate it was for the idiot to take himself out of the genepool. But with this story, and this one (about a girl who drowned in a local creek) are really hitting me as tragic right now. I vacilate that way -- when bad things happen to stupid people (even kids) doing stupid things. It's weird. Maybe it is just because they're kids, maybe because I'm somewhat pining for my childhood lately, maybe because it just seems unfair right now...I don't know. I don't really get it.