[Drew68]

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cracked under post-war stress early Saturday, responding with shotgun fire when someone threw a bottle through a window in his Lawrence home, his attorney said yesterday.

Um, I don't think he cracked under post war stress as much as he retaliated when thugs threw dangerous objects through his window. At any rate, this is Massachusetts so I expect he'll be made an example from.

Incidentally, I did a keyword search under "marine" and din't see this posted despite the fact it has appeared in several news outlets today.

Sergeant Daniel B. Cotnoir

[the invisib1e hand]

wait a minute. who's the guy in the blue jacket standing to the marine's right?

[the invisib1e hand]

wait a minute. who's the guy in the blue jacket standing to the marine's right?

[PAMadMax]

1.) Hit a 15-year old and a 20-year old? What the h**l were they doing out in front of a night club at 2:45am? Why di this group of human deitrius throw a bottle through his window?

[r9etb]

''People were saying hi to him, 'hey, how are you?' Somebody threw something at him," she said.

It's a little known fact that bottle throwing is the traditional way Bostonians say, "hey, how are you?"

[ElectricStrawberry]

Indiscriminantly firing a shotgun at a group of people (one of whom may have thrown something through your window) is not "self defense" under any legal definition of the word...and if it is in your state...lemme know which state you're in, so I can never go there....never hang outside a bar in a group of people.

[Egon]

Yep. "Playfully joshing" followed by throwing a bottle through his window. Nope, no media bias here.

[RexBeach]

Lawrence, MA is an s-hole and has been for years. It is full of very strange people and, as the old saying goes: "It's a great place to be from."

I think the marine should have lowered his aim.

[TigersEye]

It sounds like a perfectly appropriate response to a violent attack to me. What I don't understand is how a Marine, a veteran of combat no less, missed his target.

[veeceeque]

Devil Dogs are most dangerous when provoked.

Remember this and all will be well.

SGT C.

[billnaz]

The headline should have read "Individual Finally Has Enough of Noise From Punks Outside Window and Takes Appropriate Action After Being Threatened."

Another good reason not to live in Kennedy/Kerry Land.

[Clemenza]

Funny. I often felt like doing the same thing when the Dominicans on my block in Brooklyn would blast their infernal music out of their cars at 2:45 AM. I usually called the cops, and the club was eventually closed down. Things got quieter for a while.

[joesnuffy]

Note to self:

Do not throw bottles at Marines who have recently returned from combat or at their bedroom windows at 3AM...especially after you have been harrasing them for a couple of hours..

And they own shotguns...

They tend to react as though they have been attacked...

Also do not poke PitBulls with sharp pointy sticks...

You will not like either's reaction....to you messin' with them..

[Clock King]

What the hell is a 15-year-old girl doing coming out a club at 2:45AM?

[taxesareforever]

Daniel B. Cotnoir, a decorated Marine and military mortician, cracked under post-war stress

It's not post-war stress. Otherwise there are about 200 million people in this country who have never been in war who would have reacted the same way.

[JimRed]

Cotnoir fired "a warning shot" that hit a 15-year-old girl...

What is a 15 year old doing in front of a night club at 2:45 AM?

[Drew68]

''People were saying hi to him, 'hey, how are you?' Somebody threw something at him," she said.

People may have been saying, 'hey, how are you?' but I suspect that it probably sounded more like, 'what the f*** you lookin' at white boy?"

Just a hunch.

[boxerblues]

''He shot into what he thought was a safe area, but there was some ricochet effects that Mr. Cotnoir never intended," Kelley said. ''It was a military-type response to a threatening situation that was civilian in nature

How many sots did he got off for this "military-type response" from a shot gun?

[andyk]

''The piece in my leg, doctors said it's about the size of my thumb. They said it has to stay in there."

So, he fired a slug?