Posted on 05/01/2016 8:55:53 AM PDT by 5150 FREEPER
Chris Gaither was home alone “petting the dogs” on Wednesday morning when he heard a noise upstairs.
The 11-year-old boy from Talladega, Ala., told NBC affiliate WVTM-TV that he was scared, so he grabbed a knife and steadied himself.
Chris said that a man appeared on the stairwell, but when confronted, he ran back up upstairs. When the man reappeared moments later, the boy told WVTM-TV, the individual was holding a gun.
“When he was coming down the stairs, that’s when he told me he was going to kill me, f-you and all that,” Chris said.
Instead of running, Chris told the station, he upgraded his weaponry, picking up a 9mm handgun that was in the home.
Chris said he threatened to kill the man and ordered him to get out of the house.
“I guess when I pulled the gun out on him he didn’t think it was a real gun cause he didn’t worry about it,” Chris told the station. “He just kept on walking.”
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I’m sorry...I thought you were talking about his parents and southerners in general...My mistake...
I misunderstood you... :o)
This 11 year old is not a child. He could have taken his girlfriend for an abortion and would not even have had to tell the parents. Plus all the good things he gets taught in school that parents don’t need to know about. My grandson is 7 and it reminded me that he needs to begin learning about guns.
What kind of title is that ... when an 11 year old was almost killed by an intruder. They are blaming the kid.
It happens, possibly I could’ve worded my comment more clearly. FRiends are touchy about right now, due to a primary which for once held some surprises.
I have probably heard too many times how guns are BAD and parents don’t take care of their kids etc...
In fact. from some of the stuff we hear, I don’t see how I lived through childhood...LOL
I think he fired 10 or 11 shots. The last shot struck home. That boy needs to hit the range soonly. I am very disappointed.
He had to shoot the laundry basket in order to save it.
“But what the hell - “child endangerment” for leaving an 11 year old alone home in their house? Is that serious? WTF?”
By that age I was a farm hand and quite used to being left alone in the field walking behind a plow or in the woods swinging an ax or doing some other chores, I had learned to handle a draft horse before I was eleven. When I wasn’t alone I was usually working with my brother who was three years older, we cut oak trees three feet and more in diameter with a two man saw and split the logs into firewood with axes. We also went hunting and fishing for meat to put on the table.
Luxury.
The 4 Yorkshiremen (Monty Python)
(Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. 'Farewell to Thee' being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.)
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Jones: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TJ: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TJ: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TJ: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TJ: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TJ: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
I’ve seen it, it is funny but it is a comedy routine. What I posted is simply the facts of my young life and I left out one hell of a lot! I went from high school to Navy boot camp looking for an easier way to live and I certainly found it. I do know however that some of my schoolmates had it even tougher than I did. I picked cotton in the fall AFTER school let out but some of them missed the first six weeks or more of school because their parents kept them out to pick cotton all day every day. They had to make it up somehow when they finally came back to school which might be Halloween. They did make it up too and were not held back, there was no “no child left behind” stuff going on then. Yeah, I know that sounds like more Monte Python but it’s all factual.
In CA the parents would be up for felony child endangerment and unsecured weapon charges in a heartbeat.
I was teasing you, sorry if it came across as harsh. We used to tease my dad about walking uphill to school both ways in a blizzard. Then I grew up and had rural friends who lived in an environment I only ever went backpacking in. Anyway, that’s why that Monty Python skit always tickled my funny bone.
No problem, I knew you were teasing.
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