{"id":27322,"date":"2025-11-30T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27322"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:44:19","slug":"grand-theft-auto-wol-you-have-doe-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27322","title":{"rendered":"GRAND THEFT AUTO&#8230;WOL YOU HAVE DOE THIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">EPISODE ; 1,460: GRAND THEFT AUTO\u2026WOULD YOU HAVE WRITTEN TO THE JUDGE?<br \/>\nalan skeoch nov. 29, 2025.<br \/>\n A boy was put in my class at Parkdale C. I. while awaiting sentencing for theft\u2026&#8221;Grand theft &#8211; auto\u201d to be precise.  Serious. He was 15 years old and very shy and very troubled.  So I sent this letter to the court.<br \/>\n\u201cTO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:<br \/>\nJOHN DOE is not a leader type. He seems to have been swept up in a car theft ring of criminals.  He is A nice kid who has made a big mistake.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe sat in the first row at the back of my grade ten history class for a few weeks then disappeared.  I sent my letter to the court and never saw the boy again.   I did however get a phone call from the judge who said my letter was crucial. \u201cyour letter was important\u2026\u201d \u201c JOHN DOE will be sent to a group home\u201d<br \/>\nThere were critics, \u201cAl, the boy is a criminal\u2026stole $250,000 worth of cars\u2026What if it was your car he stole?  Would you still have sent the letter?<br \/>\nalan skeoch november 30, 2025<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPISODE ; 1,460: GRAND THEFT AUTO\u2026WOULD YOU HAVE WRITTEN TO THE JUDGE? alan skeoch nov. 29, 2025. A boy was put in my class at Parkdale C. I. while awaiting sentencing for theft\u2026&#8221;Grand theft &#8211; auto\u201d to be precise. Serious. He was 15 years old and very shy and very troubled. So I sent this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}