Posted on 07/15/2005 1:39:35 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
That's the only thing I could think of...it's not as though the two shoved them into traffic. He didn't have to run into oncoming traffic.
In my estimation this is just another example of 'one of those things' that just happens. I believe it's called fate, or something. But, my gut tells me someone is going to get their litigation on!
The victim here is the 17-year-old girl who has to deal with having killed this brat.
The guilty parties here are the parents of the brats for letting them do this sort of thing (and after midnight!)
The stupid ones were the brats for not having planned a safer route of escape.
A moron did this in Atlanta and wrecked a tanker truck, causing an evacuation. The authorities need to give the guys an attaboy and drop the issue. The kid was a waste of skin.
Actually, there are several points to be made about the timing. Pierce County has a curfew, so the 12 year old boys were out past curfew in addition to what they were doing with the bottle rockets. The 17 year old girl was also either past curfew, or close to it (my daughter got a ticket for driving after curfew in Pierce, so I know it is enforced). Basically, the only people that had the RIGHT to be there were the 2 22 year old boys ... and they are the ones that the law will probably come down hardest on.
"Frankly, I cannot think of any charge against the victims of these delinquents that would get a guilty verdict from me were a juror on this case!"
I read your tag line. Go talk to your husband and then come back and revise your comments.
"Shot dead" implies guns, which Tyrone and Mario did not use. If they're that supposedly battle-hardened, do you really think they'd take their fists into a gunfight?
Just a couple of toughs who decided to take direct action. A kid died as a result. There's arrests and a trial, and whatever comes of that. The right things are being done in this case.
I've seen a bottle rocked shatter the glass in a storm door. They're not harmless.
Bottle rocket (Brooklyn-style): Thin foot-long stick with what looks like a fat firecracker taped to one end, fuse down. Stick is placed upright in a bottle (or can, or pile of poo),
and fuse is lit. "Rocket" can travel a couple of hundred feet, tho aim is imprecise. Firecracker-like explosion at end of journey.
OK...I don't care who ya are. That's funny right there!
</Larry The Cable Guy>
LOL! Glad nobody got hurt, but I'm betting you still chuckle about that.
Let me help.
Personal actions ALAWAYS produce personal reaction.
If one is blessed with the freedoms placed upon them, then one must understand the repercussions of interfering with the freedoms placed upon another individual even if the other's aren't placed at the center of the universe in one's own mind.
Busy day for idiots, isn't it!
The most likely people to over-react are always punks. So what's your point?
How close are we to the full moon?
Did someone gt beat up? If I chased the kid to catch him and haul is sorry butt back to his parents or the police, but he ran into traffic, is that murder?
Unfortunate, but I don't see any intent.
He was being chased by a guy whom he had ample reason to believe was going to beat him up. He trying to get away, and took a wrong turn. That's why there's a manslaughter charge against the guy who was doing the chasing.
"See how you would react if one flew through your open window while you were driving at that time of the night and exploded in your face ."
Tyrone and Mario simply suffered from bottle-rocket rage.
Wow!
I bet that was the last time you did that.
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