I don’t live in Durant, but an incident occurred here that is the subject of this letter. My parents live in Durant and called me the other day to tell me that someone had thrown a brick into my brother’s truck and stole the GPS system. First of all, my brother is in Iraq and now he gets to come home to a broken truck that my family doesn’t have money to fix. The GPS was a present so now we’ve lost that, too, thanks to the guilty involved in the act.

The more and more I hear about crime, I just become more dumbfounded. I just don’t understand how a person can be that selfish. What makes them feel the world owes them something that they didn’t work for and they don’t need? What makes them feel that their needs are more important than their fellow man and neighbor?

So, to the guilty party, I hope you think about how your actions affect others in the future. To you, it was probably just somebody’s truck. I hope now that you can associate something personal with the crime. I want you to know that destroying property hurts people. When my mom told me about this, I instantly thought of one of my favorite quotes by Ani Difranco. She said, “I do it for the joy it brings because I’m a joyful girl. Because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world.”

Aaron Wright

Oklahoma City