Neighbor twice called police over pranksters (teen prankster)

The Palm Beach Post ^ | Tuesday, October 28 | Dani Davies, Jane Musgrave and Pamela Pérez

[AppyPappy]

OK, was he shot in the back or not?

[eno_]

Anyone pulling stunts on my property at 1am will probably leave in a bag.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

As predicted.

Just an addition of chlorine to the gene pool as far as I'm concerned.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Pope John Paul students drove by, stopping there to pray intermittently. Seniors Brandon Fustanio, Sean Beckett, John Siikarla and junior Tyler Bloechinger wandered over to gaze at Levin's front door. All four said they felt angry that Levin shot their classmate over "a harmless prank."

"Everybody's done it," Siikarla said. "Something like this shouldn't have happened to someone like him."

Levin should have called police or fired a warning shot, they said.

Hows about praying that no one does anything so stupid ever again, and that the school actually start drilling in some notion of how to be neighborly for a change?

[lifacs]

I've only heard the family say he was shot in the back.

[CobaltBlue]

The article seems to suggest that the dead child was responsible for all the pranking, and that the homeowner was fed up.

But there appear to be a lot of kids in the neighborhood.

Our house has been egged a couple of times and tp'ed a couple of times, and I have no idea who did it. It doesn't really even bother me.

We have a lot of guns. It would never cross my mind to answer the door at midnight Friday with a gun. I'd turn on the light, and look out the window, and see if I recognized the person, and if I didn't, I wouldn't open the door. If I felt menaced, I'd pick up the phone and dial 911.

The guy who did this should fry.

[marktwain]

"Everybody's done it," Siikarla said. "Something like this shouldn't have happened to someone like him."

No, not everybody wakes people up at 1 am, then makes threatening gestures when they answer the door.

I never did.

Didn't this kid ever read a Lois Lamore novel? You know, where it is spelled out that you don't sneak up on someone's campfire without announcing yourself, because you might get shot?

It is a tragedy, but the young man clearly made horrible mistakes that led to his death.

[Agnes Heep]

In my opinion what happened is no different than the tragic consequences of any of a number of stupid, dangerous teenage pranks. A very unfortunate occurrence. Nothing more. Let's get on with life.

[laredo44]

At about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Drewes and a friend ended up at Levin's house, where they tied fishing line to his door knocker and hid in the bushes, a neighbor said.

"When Levin heard knocking, he armed himself with a handgun and answered the door," according to a sheriff's report.

Levin, 40, told investigators that when he opened the door, he saw Drewes standing there. He said he was frightened and thought Drewes had something in his hand that might have been a weapon.

Levin fired one shot, hitting Drewes, who ran into a neighbor's yard and collapsed in the grass.

What is wrong with this moronic newspaper? They're all over the place looking at this guy's driving record and the value of his house, but zero or the specifics of the event. And nothing reconciling huge discrepancies. The kid hid in the bushes. The kid stood on the doorstep. What a BS story.

[crz]

Read the article again would you? It said they had a line on the knocker. So what you would do is answer the door, answer the door, answer the door, answer the door because that is what these little shits would have you doing. AND it was one in the morning. The only ones fried should be the parents who left these kids run wild at ONE in the morning.

[AppyPappy]

One of my neighbors was shot answering the door. I always look from the upstairs window.

[AppyPappy]

Lois Lamore

I'm going to have to ask you to step outside, cowgirl.

[G.Mason]

"The guy who did this should fry."

Get a rope, big mouth, and head on down there.

[G.Mason]

"OK, was he shot in the back or not?"

What?!

Rumors and inuendo are sufficient here.

Don't be so smart!

[meyer]

School officials enlisted the help of a crisis management team to provide counseling for students.

Your tax dollars at work. Geeze, Louise - we probably lost 10 students in my class over the 3 years of High School and never was there any need to enlist a "crisis management team" to console students.

[Publius6961]

In an older, saner world, this would be called what it is: an accident, caused by a brainless kid with a set of even more brainless parents.
One am?

Sounds like the neighbors aren't far behind.
As for the other kids "mourning" the little Einstein, welcome to the world of 2003.

Not sure what I would do, I have no weapons, but I certainly would not not be inclined to go quietly into victimhood. The cops have already made it clear, everywhere, that they can't prevent harm to anyone, and calling repeatedly will just get you labelled a troublemaker or worse, a nut.

So what were the victim's options? The shooter, not the Darwin Award candidate.

[demlosers]

BUMP... for later read and respond to the Nonsense that will be said on this thread.

You are correctly accessing the situation.

[CobaltBlue]

Boca Raton News has it shortly after midnight. Whatever.

And I didn't say "answer the door," I said turn on the light and look out the window to see if I recognized the person, and if I didn't, I wouldn't open the door.

Since they had fishing line on the knocker, he couldn't see the person knocking, so the intelligent thing to do was to go out and kill the person with the fishing line.

Based on conversations I've had over the years, there's about 10-20% of the general population who likes to big mouth about how they'd shoot anybody who came onto their property late at night. Lucky for the general public, most of ya'll won't get your chance. If enough of the rest are fried, maybe ya'll will learn that it's against the law to kill people just because they piss you off.

[CobaltBlue]

I hope it never happens to your kids. And if it does, I hope nobody tells you how it was inevitable.