Every now and then you come across a story so bizarre that it’s almost impossible to make a meaningful comment on it. A few comment posters in other entries have already noted or linked to this story out of France. I came across it last week, but the server issues we had to deal with left it on the back burner until now.
Deliciously tempting as it may be to leap on a soap box at this stage and to start railing against obsessive tennis parents, the naked and sad fact is that this tale is such a one-off horror story that it doesn’t really say much about anything. There but for the grace of God go I. The line between sanity and madness sometimes appears to be more finely drawn than we want to believe.
Think I’ll save my outrage on this one and just say I feel very sorry for the victims, as well as this character’s poor kids.