Sullivan County, NJ – A Lakewood teen remains in intensive care at Westchester Medical Center’s trauma unit after sustaining a head injury last night on Laurel Park Road in South Fallsburg.
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According to The Times Herald Record, a twenty seven year old older brother was towing the teen, who was riding a mountain bike, with his Toyota when the accident occurred. The teen, who was wearing a helmet, lost control and fell off the bike.
Am I reading correctly? Towing his brother on the bike? A helmet is no use!
A 27 year old tows a younger person on a bike with his car. I would be very disappointed if this was my 27 year old. How immature to do such a thing. Yes, I may have towed my brother or friend with my bike and he was on skates, but with a car? A failure of education or as Mark Twain said, common sense is not so common.
With all due respect and wishes for refuah shelamah for this bochur, what kind of insanity leads one to “tow” a bike with a car (even wearing a helmet)?? I know some will say this is the wrong time to focus on such matters but its the only time people listen. This is the kind of stunt you would expect from the guys in the “Dumb and Dumber” movies but not from a 27 year old yid from Lakewood. How do we communicate to these yungerleit that it is a big aveyrah to put yourself at such risk of physical harm?
Nebech, our Yeshivas are failing us. The quality of the average bochur today is down drastically from even a decade ago. The Yeshivas are NOT teaching derech eretz, or simple menchlechkeit. Events like this one are a natural outgrowth of a defective education.
oy vey – i know him well – he is a good friend of mine – he lives in South Fallsburg and learns in Ellenville Yeshivah (he used to live in Lakewood, his father is a maggid shiur in South Fallsburg) – please daven for Shmuel Dovid haLevi ben Nechamah Adinah – he is a very tayerer bachur
“he is a very tayerer bachur…”
He is also a very dumb bochur and very lucky to be alive. I cannot believe that a bochur learning in yeshiva with a tata who is a magid shiur in a respected kollel would do something this crazy. But even assuming he had straw for brains (as many teenagers do) how can the 27 year old have been an acomplice to his stupidity. The older boy should be prosecuted for endangering a minor child if thats allowed under NYS law.
I suggest you all take your feet our of ur mouths. There’s no human that doesn’t do something silly or a mistake in their lives including urselves with your cold comments in a time when rachamim is needed for this bachur. This bachur is a very good boy and perhaps got his second wind at night and got a bit lebedig or something; aren’t we all human???? Had these bachurim known the consequences they would never have persued this. What goes around comes around so I suggest those that want to belittle or talk lashon horah during this trying time should think before.
I blame his yeshiva. Did they ever teach them physics? Did they ever teach them safety? No, they teach them that their Torah Learning holds up the world and that they are immune form the laws of nature.
#8 , I see no Lashon Hara here, we must learn from mistakes and use this tragedy to educate our kids what poor judgement looks like. Every shul and school should take a moment to discuss the behavior used by a 27 year old. Our outcry and criticism is from pain not from any desire to be hurtful. If there is a small chance other 27 year olds would do the same, we should advertise this mistaken behavior.
BH he is home and looks well – I visited him today