Posted on 01/23/2025 12:03:59 PM PST by Puppage
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A 12-year-old boy was shot while throwing snowballs Wednesday evening in Hartford, according to police.
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A recent story reported that some guy in Tennessee starting shooting at a family because they were sledding. I believe he missed.
My eight-year old self could have been shot!
I think this is the area:
The housing is “affordable” if you don’t mind a few gunshots now and then.
Lol.
Terrible. They shouldn’t be shot for throwing snowballs at cars; they should have their rear ends walloped though.
He should not have been shot but he shouldn’t have been throwing snowballs (ice balls) at cars. Where were parents?
Hartford is a dump.
Is East Hartford better?
I was going to say that maybe the driver mistook the “thump” of a snowball against his car for a gunshot, and he panicked. But the article said the driver looped around the block.
So cancel that theory.
Plus it’s Hartford and the residents have low impulse control.
The article doesn’t specifically say that they were throwing at the cars. They may have just been having a snowball fight, and one hit the car.
The bigger problem is with adults who can’t contain their rage and act out to this extent.
Please explain to me how you make a snow ball into an ice ball. You can have a sleet ball that is ice, in a day or much later in the day. Hand packed is not ice, it’s Snow packed. The a-hole neighbor was always fair game. His trees and bushes always turned white before the leaves fell. Be nice to your neighborhood kids. We also helped the nice ones to the stores and carried their groceries home. Expected by our parents, the other stuff they ignored as they knew who the a.. holes were. Enjoy karma!
That is flat out murder.
If you compress and melt the snow on the outside the ball becomes like ice and can do a lot of damage.
“Hartford is a dump.”
That is the good part of town.
Lol.
Not if he’s still alive.
Is it them again, Yogi?
When I was twelve a friend and I were throwing snowballs one evening from a garage roof. We were throwing at some friends, and always liked to targeted passing trucks and busses - and we also hit a car - which happened to be driven by the town thug and crazy tough guy who had been in trouble with the law, etc...
He chased us for about 45 minutes in his car and on foot, through backyards, alleys, etc...
it was the stuff of horror movies....
Bill Cosby - Revenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZe9YAYbUaY
Me too! I had to run for my life once. Lucky I was faster than the slowest one in our gang. Poor Leon got smacked good.
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