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Tough neighborhood. Glad to me a small-town dweller.
Kids always through rocks. I did ... now don’t lie.. of course you did. They didn’t deserve to be arrowed by some creep with a crossbow. What they needed was some good old parental dispensing of punishment... their rear end paddled and restriction for a few months etc. However, this is a different society and people are starting to cheer harming kids. I had a kid hit my car with a rock and I didn’t try and kill him. Sheesh people. Get real.
Moral of story, don’t bring a rock to a crossbow fight.
Good shot, the bastard need that!
The ‘boy’ sounds like he’s a teenager... 16 years old? AP put a pity-party headline on the story. For a second the lie works - and we imagine a 7 year old being hit with a crossbow. Then ahhh, it’s AP and the illusion - the lie - is obvious. An out of control teenager was throwing rocks at cars - maybe endangering lives - and someone fought back...
If I were on the jury that heard the case against the alleged crossbow shooter I would vote to acquit.
Wasn't aware that combustion plays a part in shooting a crossbow. RPG crossbow? (And where can I get one?)
I say it to this boy and I would say the same to my own son if it happened to him. "Welcome to the real world and thank God you are alive." Then I would promptly encourage him to find out whom were in the other cars that he hit and make amends and if he could not find them, I would sit down with him and research other groups or people that had been victimized by anonymous crime and have him pay amends/do service to the same amount of people as cars he hit--such as lawn mowing, anything that works for the victims.
Hopefully it will sink in real fast that crime does not pay in the end.
These two little Ernest T Bass Rockchucker inductees are lucky they only got shot an not moved out of the way in a more aggressive an simple manner. Bugs wash right off these bumpers.....
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Stay Safe....
“No one was arrested”......I love a happy ending!
Seriously. It seems like a lot of folks here are conflicted by this one, or at least have to caveat their support. It sounds like someone got a wakeup call. Hopefully he will heed it.
When I was a brain-dead youth, it never occurred to me to throw rocks at cars BUT my farm buds and I used to play an even more dangerous game. We'd sneak out late at night with a million candle-power spotlight and set up to the side of a blind curve or hilltop crossroads. When a car would come we'd pop up from cover and spot the driver right in the eyes. We had a good laugh when they'd scream and cuss and swerve all over the place. Then we'd move to a different spot and do it again.
By grace of God alone, none of our victims wrecked out. There were a couple near-misses, though.
This got to be a habit with us. So much so that we went out one night after a blizzard. The road was down to one lane. The first guy we "zapped" ran off into a snowbank. We thought it was great fun until he popped out with a rifle and drew down on us. We ditched the light and took off running like mad. I don't know if he fired (he was surely blind as a bat at that moment anyway). We were crashing through brush and making a massive racket. We broke into an open field and kept running. In our haste we forgot there was a fence ahead and we both hit it running flat-out. The next day we had a lot of 'splaining to do: what happened to dad's light and why were we both limping and what the heck gave us those cuts and bruises?? I don't recall the cock-and-bull story we spun, but we NEVER even discussed doing that stunt again. Looking back, I think we got off really light.
Is such a shooting legal self-defense anyplace?
