Parents Gone Wild

A woman trying to kill her poor old daddy got taken out by her son...with a pellet gun he'd gotten for Christmas:

White, 40, of Salina, had spent the weekend in Wichita after she was invited to spend Christmas at the house where her 73-year-old father and her 68-year-old mother were raising her children.

Police said the altercation happened after White returned to the home Tuesday. Armed with scissors, White threatened to kill her father, who had only a cane to defend himself, police said.

When the argument moved into the front yard, Landen said the teen's grandfather tripped over a planter.

As his mother moved toward her fallen dad with the scissors, police said, the teenager stepped onto the front porch and aimed, striking his mother in the heart.

The crazy mom was able to leave, only to crash her car and die. It was ruled justifiable. I'm glad he had a weapon to use to stop his grandpa's murder; but still, that's way rough on a kid.

In further bad parent news: a man who turned into a crackhead at age 60 and began robbing banks got the dime dropped on him by his policeman son.

Jared Ginglen said he had no regrets about turning in his father.

"It had to be done," he said.

There you go. Sometimes it surely does.