Kids don't seem to realize that their actions aren't w\o responsibility, but that's how they're being raised today and by and large, kids have no ****ing respect for anyone's property.
It's not right what happened, but they have to see that the people they **** with could easily change their lives in a heartbeat. And what if it were bricks, or worse yet, what if the car might have crashed and the kids assaulted the driver?
You take your chances when you mess with people's personal property, and if it's not yours, don't mess with it. Had these kids had some common sense maybe this might not have happened.
Originally posted by KidRock
Is throwing a brick illegal? That means I can throw it threw someones window without getting in trouble right? Since throwing bricks is legal. That seems to be your theory.It was 11 at night, the driver could have been coming home from a long day and then his windshield gets hit by 5 eggs and he crashes and dies. The kids could have killed the driver.
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Police said the teens were throwing eggs at cars Sunday night at about 11 p.m. when an egg hit an unidentified driver in the head.
What theory? No, throwing bricks isn't legal, but there's no comparing a 10 POUND CYNDER BLOCK to a 10 ounce DAIRY PRODUCT.
One egg, apparently the driver had his window down, the kids were in close enough prximity for a straight shot, and for the guy to be able to conveniently get out of his car.
But hey, justify a kid getting shot and killed for a prank.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Kid Rock does have a valid point there..... [/B]
No, he doesn't. The scenario he presented didn't happen.
Originally posted by LinkaliciousBut put yourself in this guy's shoes. He's driving along and he gets hit IN THE HEAD by a thrown egg. [/B]
Stop the car and try and chase them down. You don't ****ing shoot little kids for a prank. That's goddamn savage. But, this is the USA.
Sometimes I wonder about you Kidrock...
Throwing a brick isn't illegal.
Throwing it where it could cause damage is vandal, its not the action of throwing it, its what it cause, and thats applicable to anything. Whether its an egg or a brick, its not the action thats illegal, its the result that is. If the action was illegal you would end up with stupid overextensions of the law like the one you discribed.
The kids commited Vandal,
The Man commited Murder.
They should be punished accordingly, and no that was, in no way shape or form justified. Killing is NEVER justified.
From one side they could have caused a very nasty accident injuring many persons.
From the other, the mororist was a over-reactive.
I remember a case of some italian boys in Italy who were throwing stones onto oncoming traffic from walk-overs and once they dropped a stone onto a moving car, smashing the head of a pregnant woman while her husband was driving. She died instantly while the hunt for the teenagers began.
Im not sure if the culprit was caught.
Now assuming that this man did not shoot the kid, the teenagers would have probably been at it again the next day.
And if they ran out of eggs, they would drop other things on the highways, including rocks, stones, boulders.......etc. basically anything they can get their hands on.
The kids got what was coming to them. No, the driver isn't justified in any way shape or form, and he should definetely be shipped off to jail. But the kids still should've known that they could've cause an accident and injured or maybe even killed the driver and others, and also they should've known that some people are just crazy.
I hear about stuff like this all the time. There's reports on the news about people getting shot over petty stuff like cutting someone off. Hell, a year or two ago I heard about some kid down in Boca Raton who was shot because he rang some dude's doorbell and ran away. Harmless pranks aren't so harmless these days, and kids are learning this the hard way.
You cannot go below a certain speed on certain motorways ; if one drives too slow, it may cause an accident.
If you calculate the speed the car was drinving + the mass and gravity pull over a small object, even an egg can cause a pretty nasty accident and injury.
An irked motorist, not knowing what hit him, gets out of the car and in a fit of rage shoots whatever he sees moving.
Its easy to comment on what you would do AFTER you know the facts, but at that time some guy gets deranged for an egg and a teen gets shot.
Foolish way to die. Bizarre motive to shoot.
I don't care even if the egg hurt him when it hit him, there's no reason to get out of the car and open fire. And you can't really say he acted on instinct cause first he had to pull the car over, get the gun out and then start shooting. So either he went for the gun before he even tried to figure out what hit him, or he knew what hit him and started shooting anyway. Either way, doesn't look good for him.
Originally posted by GCG
I remember a case of some italian boys in Italy who were throwing stones onto oncoming traffic from walk-overs and once they dropped a stone onto a moving car, smashing the head of a pregnant woman while her husband was driving. She died instantly while the hunt for the teenagers began.
The guy that was shot was 15 years old. I'm assuming the others were of comparable ages. WTF is wrong with those morons? The "kids will be kids and they should be protected" crap doesn't work in this particular case IMO. Sure, it'd work for a 9, 10, 11, 12 year old. Not for a goddamn 15 year old. I'm not saying the guy was right to do what he did, but i'm saying that the "kids" were old enough to realize the dangers on both themselves and the drivers that their actions could bring about. 😬 Imbeciles.....
~wickerman~
Originally posted by botankus
No comment on the motorist. However, I hate when brats get away with sh*t like that. Looks like they didn't this time.
Well actually just one didnt....I guess you could argue they will feel bad or something but a bullet in the head would be a better way of ensuring that they "didn't get away with it"