I had a good friend of mine from college get arrested for meeting an underage girls on AOL and, well, you probably know the rest. It was a complete and utter shock, especially to find out about it reading an out-of-town paper. After he posted bail, I tried to contact him to figure out WTF happened, holding out hope that somebody I knew well (or at least thought I did) wasn't capable of doing something like that, but all the numbers I tried were disconnected. He wound up pleading guilty and was sentenced to 10 years. I think he's out now.
Man, I haven't even thought about that whole deal in years.
Makes me wanna puke, to channel Mike Gundy. I guess the cliche the cops say is true. "Anyone is capable of anything." Either that or he harbored a dark side that he kept well-hidden.
It puts you in a tough spot as a friend because you want to be supportive and don't want to turn your back on somebody. But, at the same time, you can forgive somebody that steals out of desperation. Somebody that is caught burglarizing. Or even somebody that snaps and beats somebody up. Some things are just unforgivable, I guess.
