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Posted: 8/23/2006 11:09:28 AM EST
I think the guy was in the wrong but I kind of understand. This would also be treated much differently in country than in the city. |
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So, was it some kind of accident or was he shooting at their car? I'm not sure I understand how this went down.
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Maybe he thought it was a zombie horde and started popping at 'em. I mean the cemetary is a good excuse to start shooting figures in the dark, right?
Damn beat to the punch. |
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I'm waiting for the "full" story. |
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OH yea, that one is a one sider story for sure!
Ok, you posted it. The least you can do is tell us what really happened when it comes out. Tj |
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I don't get it - what's the "prank" referenced in the title of the thread? The story makes it sound like the kids:
-went to the cemetary across from this guy's house -got out of the car -heard firecrackers, got back into car -drove around the block -got shot at. Where's the prank? And why would psycho guy shooting into a car full of kids be treated differently in the city v. the country? |
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From what I understand the guy is a bit off. Kids were frequently going to his house and banging on the windows and doors because the house was spooky. It is not the greatest area but not the ghetto either. The kids bang on the windows he goes outside and fires in the air, the kids get in the car and leave. The car goes a little way down the street turns around and comes back and as the car get close he shoots the car hitting the girl. |
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Guessing the trespass into the closed cemetary. Unless the cops found a few cases of eggs and TP in the teens car and some toppled grave markers. |
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I am curious as to how this will turn out too. I will update the story as details come out. I hope the kids get charged with trespassing. |
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Here's a better link: LINK
Here's a snip:
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Looks more like they got charged with death to me........I guess they got what they deserved huh? |
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I pray that she lives and I hope they burn the shooter. |
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Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?
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What's his screen name? |
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I would try to verify my target if possible. If I see Lootie then I set some ammo free, if I see a bunch of high school cheerleaders then I put some Boone's Farm on ice and start the Jack Johnson CD. |
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Dang, beat me to it. Doesn't it just sound EXACTLY like so many in GD? |
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AGNTSHA!! |
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Hmm, if this was in Texas I could see the case going either way.
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I dunno - someone with enough neurons firing to think "Gee, maybe I should ID my target before I start blasting"? |
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Damn, I thought the same thing. Just not laughing. I hope that girl will be ok. |
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It's generally a good idea to know who/what you are aiming at before you start squeezing off rounds. |
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BINGO!!!DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner!!! |
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I'm not taking that bet. Tj |
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You would think this was self-evident and pretty much a universal truth, but we just had a multiple page thread about three weeks back about folks arguing the other way. "Recon by fire" just isn't a good self-defense strategy. |
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I wouldn't. Window banging (and the large amount of girlish giggling in this instance) does not equal threat. Of course, we all know how deadly mutant cheerleaders with secret ninja skills can be. |
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Anyone who wants to stay out of jail. shooter |
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This is what happens when you don't have enough school spirit.
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He didn't fire at them until they drove off and then came back. If a group of people were attempting to break into my house (by banging through the windows), ran when I fired some warning shots, then turned around and CAME BACK, I'd think they had regrouped and assumed that they had superior firepower if they were returning AFTER they had been giving warning shots. How was he to know they were teenage cheerleaders instead of a group of thugs about to do a drive by on a house that had just fired warning shots at them? I would have handled the situation a lot differently, but I understand his thought process. |
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I don't know, I think that falls more into the idiot catagory. Nutjob, he avoids jail. Tj |
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I would not bet the family farm on that one. Shooting a teenage cheerleader in a car at random is "frowned upon" by most people. You might want to avoid shooting a neighborhood Grandma collecting for United Way also. Just some food for thought. |
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I wonder how different this thread would be if it was "black teens" instead of "teen cheerleaders".
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Agree. He violated a cardinal rule of shooting, you ID your target. Just shooting randomly into something is inviting disaster. In this case, he was lucky, no one died. |
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BRAVO!!! |
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quite different.... ...but his story would be different too...perhaps... ...who can say? |
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One thing is for sure. If this young "lady's" parents had taught her to respect others privacy and property she would not have been shot by that man that night. Of course the paris hilton generation does not learn those things.
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Careful pal, that's a conservative comment. Those are getting more rare around here or so I have read. |
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::cough:: She is 17 y/o. ::cough:: ETA: I guess he should have just put a fake deer in the road. |
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Nah, it didn't say he played football. |
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Shooting someone after dark banging on your door and windows is legal in TX if you think there were damaging your house (criminial mischief under cover of darkness). We have only their word she was shot in the car. More likely she was shot at the house and the rest is a story made up by teens when they realized the cops would be involved. |
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