The gunt guarding that goes on for Tom and Jan in the saga of Andy Ditch is an aspect that I'm truly at odds with.
They absolutely were victims in what cannot be called anything other than extremely cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not arguing that point at all.
What I am arguing is the fact that Tom and Jan have had a very central role in the fact that Andy remains free to be a horrific menace to society whose existence is funded by our tax dollars and who is taking away resources from people who genuinely need caretaker services.
All of this idiocy could have been nipped at the bud by Tom and Jan. All they had to do was to vehemently press charges for attempted murder against Andy. That, alongside all of the other terrorizing that he had done to their neighborhood would have been enough for him to get thrown in jail.
Tom and Jan had the ability to stop all of this shit so many years ago and yet they never went through with it. It resulted in their lives being turned into a waking nightmare from which death was deliverance. It also exacerbated the issue for society as a whole, as this miserable fuck continues to carry on with the retarded horse shit at the taxpayers' expense.
I guarantee you that Andy will at some point come back to the Ditch household because Tom will do what he has always done: enable Andy. Whatever outstanding warrants he has won't mean shit if the victims don't press charges (which they have never really done in the past). It's also why nothing happened to Andy when he came back for the funeral.
My genuine sympathy for Tom, Jan, Joe and anyone else who has had to deal with this fucking piece of shit does not stop me from also assigning blame to them. Andy for the most part, is their creation in every conceivable way.