Boy shot twice for walking across neighbour's lawn.
Holy crap, this guy shot his fifteen year old neighbour with a shotgun for cutting across his lawn, then walked over to the wounded boy and shot him again at close range, killing him. Deranged.
Printable View
Boy shot twice for walking across neighbour's lawn.
Holy crap, this guy shot his fifteen year old neighbour with a shotgun for cutting across his lawn, then walked over to the wounded boy and shot him again at close range, killing him. Deranged.
But if ya kill him, he won't learn nuthin'! :rolleyes:
i killed a mouse last night, then i put its head on a tooth pick and mounted it out back for the other mouses to see whats gonna happen to em if they enter.
Sounds like he had enough of the neighbours.
Sounds like he had enough of the neighbours. Maybe landmines would of been just as effective with half the hassle.
or maby just ya know buy a fence.
Maybe he was hunting for quail... I don't know how to explain the second shot.
I read about this the other day and all I can say is wow. First off the kid should have known not to mess with this old man. He is so obsessed with his lawn that he measures it with a ruler after mowing it to make sure that it is perfect. Besides that he had warned all of the neighborhood kids to stay off of it. One thing i've learned is to not mess with old people, they are crazy. That doesn't give the guy an excuse to shoot the kid but th kid did have fair warning and he kept playing in dangerous territory.
well something just as sick happened here somewhere the other day.
Some guy beat his daughter to death. BEAT his daughter to death. All because she had gotten her school uniform dirty.
You won the thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Genesis F5
With a shotgun?Quote:
Originally Posted by Genesis F5
do you know a better way to kill a bird?
2 shotguns, 1 in each arm.
that shouldnt have been dangerous territory, if you live in a suburb and have lots of neighbors all of them with children, they going to walk on your lawn.Quote:
Originally Posted by jasonsplace
this old guy needs to be killed as soon as possible. people like him make me sick.
yep -- same story on Guardian
What makes it even more sad in the same article:
Why the hell would you bring your gun to the workplace? This means more unnecessary tensionQuote:
Last year, Florida introduced a law giving its citizens the right to "stand their ground" and open fire, even in a public place, if they feel threatened, and the gun lobby is trying to pass a bill in the state that would allow workers to bring guns into their workplace with or without their employer's consent.
I used to work at a pre-press house where four people carried guns.
The owner was an ex-parol officer (from florida), had one in her desk.
The co-owner carried a leg strap,
the cooky southern girl who claimed to have been abducted (with a straight face) carried one in her purse, and a burnt out hippie we called "the sherrif" also had a leg strap.
Way too rational man.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
wow talk about bias and sloppy journalism... throwing in a bit from a florida law to a ohio story.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonytryout
There are all kinds of good reasons to bring a firearm to work, depending on where you work. Stateside crimes are more often stopped by armed citizens than pigs(police).
If you plan on gunning people down at work... you probably arn't to concerned about wether your place of employment allows guns or any laws concerning guns.
when I was a youngin' a friend and I used to play around in his old neighbor's huge backyard (without his permission). At one point I broke a branch off one of his trees and the old man came running out screaming. He told me next time I did that he would break that branch over my ass. That was enough for me to never step foot on his property again. I think getting shot would have been a tad overkill.
come on. thats not bias. that probably came down from the conservative higher ups.Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
I always wondered if there was any case that no lawyer would touch. "Sorry, sir. Nobody wants to go there."Quote:
His jailers said no attorney was listed for him.
Im sure someone is just stuck in traffic though.
That's what public defenders are for.Quote:
Originally Posted by indivision
I thought that even public defenders have the option to turn a case down if they want to. Is that right?Quote:
Originally Posted by lefteyewilly
Sometimes the judicial process just gets in the way. The guy admits to 911 that he just shot a kid. The kid wasn't armed and posed no immediate threat to the property owner. The kid was obviously down for the count with the first shot, even if he was posing a threat. The second shot was an intentional "shoot to kill," shot.
As far as I know, Ohio doesn't have Florida's same law about shooting someone, so this is an open / shut case, but no, we have to waste state / federal tax dollars on bringing this to court.
Some might argue "closure for the family," or "they need justice." The justice is in the punishment, not the process.
the guy measured his lawn with a ruler after he cut it. I don't there there is any issue of immediate danger or threats or anything like that. He is nuts, and needs to be removed from society.
I have often thought of shooting my neighbour... He vacuumes his lawn at 7am every sunday, takes him about 4 hours and my bedroom is about 2 feet from the side fence where he feels the need to rev the life out his little blower thingy...
but we arent allowed any guns here unless they are for sport on hunting (farms)
*cough* Penal Colony *cough*
Not sloppy journalism, just sloppy reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
If you read the article you'll see that the reference to the Florida law was part of a wider overview of how states are relaxing gun controls, the "stand their ground" law was an example of that.
he vacuums his lawn?Quote:
Originally Posted by CookieSnMilK
Yep... cant be any grass cuttings or little rocks on it, Gosh, no leaves either! ... I dont know if he measures it or not but i wouldnt put it past him...
I knew a guy once who would hand dye each blade of his grass to make sure it was all the same colour green...(my dads a landscaper, so we find a few lawn freaks around...)
True there was nothing sloppy about the journalism, but what does states relaxing gun controls have to do with the shooting in ohio?Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
relaxing gun controls leads to more homicides. obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
That's crap, if you outlaw guns then only criminals will have access to guns and the rest of us will be screwed.Quote:
Originally Posted by indivision
Look at Texas, they have the most lax gun laws in the union.....they also have one of the lowest crime rates. No one wants to rob the local liquor store when you don't know who in the store might be packing heat. Little old Granny just might have a .357 packed away in her purse.....
It's called journalism, you don't restrict yourself to only covering the events of the story, you put it in context. Would you cover the London bombings without putting it into the context of world affairs? Without mentioning the bombs in Madrid?Quote:
Originally Posted by TallGuyLittleCar
This article is for a British audience. You may take yet another deranged shooting in your stride but in Britain we look at the levels of gun violence in America with fascination and apprehension, since it seems to be spilling over to Europe. Thus the desire to put an extraordinary shooting like this into a wider context, a large section of that article deals with informing the reader about the levels of gun violence in America, over 80 people a day killed by them, etc.
I don't think that's too hard to understand.
um...aren't you in Canada?Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
My mom makes me vacuum the walls. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by sk8Krog
I agree 100%. The evidence supports this.Quote:
Originally Posted by EVPohovich
you can use context to imply a link between two things that are not necessarily connected. they could just as easily, under the guise of making it a "world affair" cited the number of cases crimes have been stopped by citizens using firearms legally.Quote:
Originally Posted by aversion
I've been scared off some old guy's property with a shotgun before, although I dont think he actually would have shot me, he did shoot it in the air though, they are a bit psycho.
People in Ohio (especially the Cincinnati area) have a special fascination with shotguns. The only time that I have ever had a gun pulled on me was in Cincinnati...and it just happened to be a shotgun. If his wife wouldn't have pushed it back along with the fact that he was really drunk and I ran away really quick I wouldn't be surprised if he would have shot me.
i thought that sleeping with another mans wife was against the code over there in Utah.Quote:
Originally Posted by jasonsplace