[Abathar]

Exactly the same thing that happened here in Indiana this year. I was amazed at the number of people who said the shooter had every right to kill the kid.

[JillValentine]

There's one of those right here, now.

The a**hole who wrote post #17.

[SteveMcKing]

"I was amazed at the number of people who said the shooter had every right to kill the kid."

To kill him? No.

To take woeful revenge against him in some form? Absolutely. That should not be a crime.

[jerryem]

The problem is, my friend, eggs today, and rocks off a bridge over the freeway tomorrow. I throughly agree with the shooter, make him a hero and cover the story nationwide on TV for the next year, and remember that those in glass houses should not throw stones ( or in this case eggs )

[ican'tbelieveit]

Have you ever been in a car that has been hit by an egg? I did, late one night, probably close to midnight, on a road under construction on my way home. I guarantee I thought I was in trouble.

I was shaking enough that I had to pull over check on my daughter, and compose myself. My immediate thought was I could see someone shooting back at that car or someone in the egged car losing control and having a wreck.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I agree.The shooter did stop the egg throwing kid before he progressed to tossing boulders off over passes.

May other such idiots benefit from this idiots experience on else meet the same fate, before some innocent traveler is killed by a boulder off a bridge.

RIP Sh*t head!

[ExSoldier]

When I was a wild youth, my buds and I used to toss water ballons at passing cars in our neighborhood. I was about 10 I think. Once we tossed a neat pair at this passing sedan. It was real dark. HIS balloon hit the windshield....and mine a moment later would have hit the side window...had that window been CLOSED. Things went rapidly downhill as the COP car immediately put on his overhead lights and spun in it's own length on that little neighborhood side street where the speed limit was about 20 mph.

We did what any self respecting 10 yr old would do...we HAULED A$$! Ran between two houses and broke out onto the nearby GOLF COURSE. Sprinted across the main fairway towards a green on the far side, when suddenly the ground just dropped away beneath us! We'd hit a sandtrap with the grass overhanging in a sort of "lip." There was no way to see it in advance. We instinctively rolled and came up runnin.' Pounded hard across and into a hedge near the trap.

The COP had followed us in his car between the houses (barely room enough) and onto the golf course. He was hot on our tails...headlights softly jouncing up and down over the terrain. Consequently HE couldn't "see" the sand trap either and when he hit that small lip, his car sailed into the middle of the huge sand trap and promptly sank up to the headlights in the sand. He got out of the car, cursing like I've not heard even a sergeant major curse....he was soaking wet, hair plastered down and shirt soaked. That guy would have killed happily at that point, I think.

We sat around after he radio'd for help. His sergeant rolled up and stood there slowly shaking his head while the tow truck TORE the green to pieces trying to manuever into to tow the car out without getting stuck himself. Then the neighbors showed up and the local news. After awhile we left the hedge and joined the crowd. Looked inside the car to see all his reports all stuck together and the ink smeared....

We felt pretty bad. I think that was the end of those days. The local constabulary was promising a full and complete investigation...but they never even started. The reign of terror came to an end...that night. In retrospect, after reading this sad story, I'm glad when I grew up in a time not quite so dangerous for our kids. It wasn't the gun (obviously), it was a mindset in a human being that allowed him to morally put vandalism into the category of a capital crime. I'm guessing with some accuracy I think, that had the gun not been there, this animal would likely have used the vehicle to flatten the kid. That's really sad.