[Osborn F Enready]

I do too Chainer.....


The "innocent" KID, kept walking on THAT GUYS PROPERTY, which means he was indeed NOT innocent, just not SHOOTABLE.

The poor guy probably put up with the ignorant parents for the last 20 years, watched them spit out this kid who was generally a good kid, but as all kids, couldn't respect other people because he wasn't taught respect for his parents, much less other people. After dealing with it for many years, he probably came in after a hard days work on the lawn (his only hobby left I would bet) and here comes the kid from next door, for the 500,000th time walking right across his manicured lawn, AGAIN, after being asked, told and WARNED not too anymore.

I don't excuse the guy for shooting the kid, it was wrong. But I most certainly feel his pain, and can understand how frustration of this type gets to this point.

I have neighbors on both sides of our house, and our house sits on a lot that is 40' wide by 100' deep.
It is not much to ask for people to stay the fuck of the postage stamp sized property I have, is IT? You wouldn't think so, but just last year I was outside at 3am explaining to the FATHER of the house TWO DOORS DOWN, that he and his kids running around shooting pellet guns in my backyard at night almost cost them their lives. I heard noise outside, saw a guy creeping around with a pellet gun (which I knew was a pellet gun, but others may not have) outside the window at 3am, my first instinct is to slide the safety off the already locked and loaded .45 ACP. and go out and have a discussion about property rights with him. I get outside, and find a FATHER, his three kids, and a couple of "stay over" friends playing guns with plastic pellet pistols in the neighbors yards...... AT 3 AM!!!

I ask him exactly "What the fuck are you doing, in MY yard, at 3am playing with pellet guns?" He tells me to " relax, we are just messing around, we thought everybody was asleep." as if this made it ok to just run around willy nilly climbing fences, trampling gardens and flowerbeds, knocking over trash cans and making a general ruckus in OTHER peoples yards. THIS IS THE FATHER OF CHILDREN, teaching through example how to get shot by being an ignorant asshole with no responsibility and no respect for human error, or private property. I told him the next time he did it, not only would I press charges, but I might file a suit on him for being a bad father and get Child Services involved. (even though I despise that entity of government almost entirely, I know how well they ruin famillies so I thought I could let the governments failures work FOR me for once, instead of only costing me.)

If I had my druthers, I would have just physically "ejected" him from the premises, but in todays world that gets you a lawsuit, thousands of dollars in fines and some bullshit anger management course that tries your sanity, so instead I just show him the gun, let him know the property is "secure", and that he should learn to respect the damn property line or be willing to face the consequences.

I can't wait to get the hell out of the suburbs. Neighbors SUCK. I could write a book on my neighbors, but I won't. I have had good and bad, far more good than bad, but some bad ones make up for all the good and more.

Save the emotional crap Tiny, this was an over-reaction by the man, but brought on by the kid, and the gun played no role in the outcome except he chose it as opposed to a car, a bat, a sword, a butcher knife, or any other object that COULD be used as a weapon.

IS it more humane to be beaten to death, stabbed to death, choked to death, drowned to death, burned to death, gassed to death, than it is to be shot to death?

I have to say I would choose a nice quick bullet to any of the above, any day.

you know, in every pre-meditated murder I have ever seen someone has used their hands to do the killing, or to operate equipment or tools to do the killing. Perhaps we should make a law that requires all people have their hands sawn off, since they are used in too many killings?