Posted on 12/03/2006 7:54:15 AM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A 14-year-old boy who was throwing eggs at cars along with two other teenagers was shot and killed by someone who had been in a sport-utility vehicle that was hit, police said.
Danny Crawford was killed by a gunshot wound to his upper body, Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis said. He died in an alley on the city's west side early Saturday, authorities said.
The teens were throwing eggs at cars when an SUV that was struck chased them, Detective Tim Huston said. The vehicle stopped and several gunshots were fired, he said.
Police were looking for the shooter, who fled in the SUV, Sgt. Dana Norman said. The SUV believed to be involved was found a short time later near where Crawford died.
The other teens were not hurt, police said.
SUV manufacturers know that these vehicles are coming into the hands of criminals.
There is no right to own these assault vehicles!
Where are the common sense SUV laws?
Now Danny won't get to see the Buckeyes play for the National Championship.
An "asymmetrical conflict."
Does that include idiots flipping lighted cigarettes out of their windows that hit other vehicles? Some truckers seem to love to do that.
A similar event occured last year as well. Watch, a certain cadre of FReepers will revel in the shooting and call it justified.
Need to control these high capacity egg cartons. No one needs to eat eighteen eggs at time.
I'm speculating here, but I'm getting the sneaky feeling that the owner of the SUV was a homeboy, and egging his ride constituted a "diss," which is a capital crime in the urban jungle.
Pure bull sh&* Doctor Phil.
Based on the majority of responses here, it would seem that the right of juvenile delinquents to throw objects into moving traffic without consequences has become a conservative value.
I disagree. You unnecessarily initiate a physical confrontation, you don't get any sympathy from me if it escalates into more than you bargained for.
Never throw eggs at Gold Edition Escalades.
How do you justify the murder? Because the kid did something stupid? 95% of adults will say they did stupid things as teenagers, and the other 5% are liars. What reward would you give the murderer? A Congressional Gold Medal? A Senate seat? A Nobel prize?
In addition, this is very irresponsible firearms use. Guns are for self-defense, not for getting petty revenge against kids who piss you off.
I can't believe that you are capable of having any compassion for your hypothetical "another innocent child" when you feel no sorrow about this happening. You are nothing more than a cold-blooded sadist who has no respect for human life.
I definitely agree that there should be consequences. Not sure if murder should be one of them especially when there was no loss of life or limb in this case.
If this kid had thrown this object and the action had resulted in the death of a person, I would have joined you in calling for his head.
Not in this case though.
Shooting wasn't justified. Maybe some kind of good can come from this incident in that children can be taught from it that actions have consequences & they aren't always what you hope they will be.
If parents would use this story to illustrate that when you trespass on, or vandalize someone else's property - you might just be stirring up a hornet's nest. Obviously, when these vandals threw the eggs, they were hoping to get a reaction from the driver - they got a lot more than they bargained for.
Moral of the story: Be careful what you wish for.
Amen.
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Throwing objects into moving traffic is needlessly rolling the dice on killing an innocent party, no different than driving drunk or firing a rifle into the air in a developed area.
Waiting until you have a victim before doing something about the offender is choosing to ruin two lives later instead of one now. Bad exchange.
I just explained to my kids that people throw things to be funny. My brother was caught and punished for throwing snowballs at cars on a major highway--keyword is punished--by Dad. I told my kids that my brother was lucky no one was hurt, including him.
You don't who you are dealing with in life, be it at a store, an overpass, an alley, or even in cyberspace. Best to stay away from trouble.
Then I told them that this kid didn't think his actions would lead to his death.
It's a powerful lesson. A lesson I know is not taught anymore by virtue of this horrible story.
I thought protecting the life of a child was a conservative value.
If a kid eggs your car, confronting him and hauling him off to his parents, or maybe calling the police, might be more constructive ways to deal with the situation than murder. But hey, who am I to talk? I'm just expressing the opinion of someone who respects human life.
Hopefully, protecting the life of unborn children is still a conservative value, because children's lives after they're born don't seem to mean much to some of these so-called "conservatives."
The problem here is that we expect the auto driver to magically know it is just an egg or not some sort of bump/rob scam.
You take your plaintiff as you find him.
There have been many cases where road debris kills people.
Of course we have to wonder why the SUV was abandoned since it is so easy to track the owners down.
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