"A's" don't ping people they are talking about. That is an FR unwritten rule.
Also, while traveling down our local highway, I had an egg thrown from an overpass at my truck. It hit mostly square down the center of the windshield and cracked my windshield. It is a wonder it didn't go through the windshield and kill me (no passengers were with me).
Egg throwing can kill... and if I could of got to them, I am not sure what I would of done with those kids (I assume they were kids).
When I was just 16 with my learner's permit, my father took me out to teach me how to drive. It was like the second time I had ever driven on a public street. Some boys waited until I drove under an overpass & dropped an old tire on the hood of our car. My dad saw them run off - I was busy trying to keep control of the car. It scared me to death and I hate to think what my dad might have done if he could have caught those boys.
No one is saying it was right what the driver did. What I believe is the relevant point here is that parents who CARE about their children teach them not to do things like that because pranks like that can have tragic consequences.
Who is to say that the driver of the SUV (if he was indeed the real owner) hadn't had problems with those kids before? Someone with anger management problems can just go off because of something like that. Not excusing it - but parents are doing a real disservice to their children by not teaching them better. To just say "kids will be kids" isn't good enough in today's world. There are dangerous people out there & you don't bring eggs to a gunfight.
That 14 year old was too young to drive, and probably had no idea of the possible consequences of throwing eggs at cars. He most likely thought it was just a cute prank, harmless in the main. He was wrong, of course, and that's why we have parents in charge of young skulls full of mush. The SUV driver who shot him can't claim the same ignorance. This was murder, plain and simple.