Neighbor twice called police over pranksters (teen prankster)

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

[CobaltBlue]

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.

Ding ding ding, I think we have a winner!

[Oztrich Boy]

Anything that puts a hole in your window is not "pranking."

The info about the fishing line incidates the toddler was probably holding it in his hand. He mades a strange move that was intepreted as threatening. The homeowner reacted,

No bill.

[Publius6961]

Evidently, you have never been a victim of the obsessions of one of the residents of the shallow end of the gene pool.
I have seen people like you scream for more guns, given enough "treatment", be is lack of sleep due to very loud wannabe music, repeated strange doings in the middle of the night, an endless string of phone calls at all hours.

Consider yourself lucky, not to have found yourself in that position.

Just out of curiosity, would you sort of keep track of where your 16-year-old darling is at 1 am?

[CobaltBlue]

So you automatically assume that the kid who shot the house with the paint ball is the same one that got killed?

Well, my automatic assumption is that the neighbor is a freak, and the neighborhood kids treated him like a freak, which eventually became unbearable to him, so he freaked out and killed one of them.

And I also automatically assume that about 10% of the population is sociopaths (this is based on psychological studies of the general population), and that sociopaths won't think it's wrong to kill someone who pisses you off.

Which just might make you a sociopath.

[CobaltBlue]

No, I've never been the neighborhood freak, but are you saying that you are?

Because if so, maybe I'd rather keep track of where you are at 1 a.m., since people who are the neighborhood freaks tend to be treated that way for a reason.

[Publius6961]

Evidently, you have never been a victim of the obsessions of one of the residents of the shallow end of the gene pool.
I have seen people like you scream for more guns, given enough "treatment", be is lack of sleep due to very loud wannabe music, repeated strange doings in the middle of the night, an endless string of phone calls at all hours.

Consider yourself lucky, not to have found yourself in that position.

Just out of curiosity, would you sort of keep track of where your 16-year-old darling is at 1 am?

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

That's tough talk on an internet thread. How many folk have you killed so far?

I hope that you are just venting and aren't really that callous.

[CSM]

"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."........in a threatening manner (added by me)!

If you don't think it is acceptable to eliminate a percieved threat on your own private property, then you can't think the 2nd ammendment is valid. What other portions of the constitution do you find invalid?

His private property had been damaged in the past, it is reasonable for him to assume that any prankster on his property after midnight are intending further harm to his property! To bad the teens didn't value private property rights, now, at least one of them, has paid the price for his disrespect.

[CobaltBlue]

Consider yourself lucky, not to have found yourself in that position.

The word isn't "lucky", it's "normal."

Normal people aren't harassed by their neighbors. Human beings are like animals, they harass the freaks, the sickos, the crazies, and the creeps.

And sometimes the freaks, the sickos, the crazies and the creeps pick up guns and blow their tormentors away.

I don't approve of harassing freaks, but I think killing a child who is pranking you is grounds for capital punishment.

[Tijeras_Slim]

His green aluminum mailbox had been smashed.

Dang, I thought it was only my family that did this as part of the grieving process.

[CSM]

"Because if so, maybe I'd rather keep track of where you are at 1 a.m., since people who are the neighborhood freaks tend to be treated that way for a reason."

It doesn't matter if he was the neighborhood "freak"! It was his private property, he has a right to be a freak when minding his own business on his own property. If his "freakness" was not breaking any laws what gives the neighborhood teens the right to violate his rights and harass him for being a "freak".

What is your definition of "freak"? At what level of "freakness" does violating a person's rights become acceptable?

[vaudine]

Yor tax dollars--in a private Catholic school?

And what is it with the "counseling" teams? Especially in a Catholic school where they have priests and teachers. Like NOBODY is prepared except the professional shrinks.

vaudine

[joan]

Since the shooting, Levin's home has become the focal point of a candlelight vigil and a steady stream of teenage mourners. On Monday, candles and crushed flowers littered the sidewalk outside of his home. His green aluminum mailbox had been smashed.

This is not right - especially about the mailbox being smashed. The teens could be messing up the crime scene and even causing vandalism that might be wrongly attributed to the shooting victim or others.

[Publius6961]

No, I've never been the neighborhood freak, but are you saying that you are?

No I'm not saying it, you are.
Thank you for giving us a clue about your psychological age.

Because if so, maybe I'd rather keep track of where you are at 1 a.m., since people who are the neighborhood freaks tend to be treated that way for a reason.

Most normal people are home minding their own business.
Do I detect a hint of sociopathic behavior in your responses?
How are things in the trailer park?

Have a nice day.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

One thing for sure, the vicious pranks against neighbors rate just went way down in that neighborhood. And of course, you know there weren't just the two reported episodes.

I went to an all-male Catholic high school in a neighborhood like this, and know the mentality. Pick on the crazy guy, vandalize his home, and its all a big yuck. The neighborhood dads just snicker about it.

A few years after I graduated, the crazy guy who had been taunted for years and who tried to keep a neat home finally killed one of the little buggers.

[steve-b]

[CSM]

"And sometimes the freaks, the sickos, the crazies and the creeps pick up guns and blow their tormentors away."

Considering that he has no criminal history that would indicate he is a sicko or crazy, what makes you think he was worthy of harassment by the neighborhood kids? Maybe because he was a loner, maybe because he never handed out candy on halloween, maybe because he didn't allow the kids to trample through his yart on the way to their friends or maybe because he suffered from obesity. Speculation is fun isn't it?

[FITZ]

Well, my automatic assumption is that the neighbor is a freak, and the neighborhood kids treated him like a freak, which eventually became unbearable to him, so he freaked out and killed one of them.

That's what I think. I guess none of the former kids on here ever did any pranks either --- they were always at home at age 16, sitting and studying, they always did whatever their parents told them, they were always with their parents at that age, in bed by 9pm. I remember doing some pranks and I wasn't exactly wild.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Normal people aren't harassed by their neighbors. Human beings are like animals, they harass the freaks, the sickos, the crazies, and the creeps.

Is your favorite book "The Painted Bird" or "Lord of the Flies"?

[Ditter]

Stupid kid, I'll admit that, but this guy had no reason to shoot. He had been victimed by kids several times before, he KNEW it was kids. Think about that, he KNEW it was kids playing pranks. No matter how mad those pranks made him, he KNEW he was shooting at kids.