Posted on 10/31/2006 12:40:17 PM PST by Abathar
Teens Fire BB Gun At Hanged Dead Man
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho -- Authorities in Idaho said some teenagers out for a Halloween scare got a lot more fright than they bargained for.
According to Kootenai County, Idaho, sheriff's detectives, the group had been at a Halloween party in Coeur d'Alene Friday night when they decided to go "ding dong ditching," which means ringing doorbells and running away. While doing that, they noticed a house under construction. They thought it would be scary inside, so in they went.
When the teens entered the home, they saw what looked like bags hanging from the rafters in the unfinished basement, they shot some BB guns and threw chunks of lumber at it, according to the sheriff's department. One teen told investigators that when his BB hit the object, it sounded like it hit a coat or a pair of pants, according to The Spokesman-Review.
Then they left and came back with a flashlight to discover it was the body of a man hanging from the rafters.
They screamed and went back to the party, the paper reported, but nobody believed them. So they got someone to go back to the house with them. When they arrived the owner, 65-year-old Norman Giddings, met them with a machete and told them to get down on the ground while he summoned authorities. A report said Giddings told the teens "he would bust their heads open."
The paper reported that Giddings told deputies he was at his nearby home when a neighbor called to tell him that there were people inside the home he was having built. He told investigators that he took his daughter, and a machete "for protection" when he went to investigate.
Deputies said it's not likely any charges will be filed. Giddings told the deputies that he didn't want to press charges because the teens "had been through enough."
The chief deputy coroner told the paper that the man had hanged himself not long before the teens entered the home. She also said that there were no injuries to the man's body that would indicate it had been hit by a BB.
Well, sounds like they had a successful day "Thrill-Seeking".
Oh great, now the house will be haunted even before it's finished!...........
LOL!
Teens, corpse, man with machete.....There's a movie plot in there somewhere........
I wonder if that "discloser" thing includes a brand new house?
LOL - you probably could have tracked those kids from that house by following the trails of urine that they left behind!
Um, putting all the reported facts together, I think the police had better at least talk to these teens.
Or at least a 6 minute scene on '24'.
The opening half of a cheap horror movie.
BB's at most leave a welt -- and I assume on a dead person not even that swelling happens. And besides, I've had little "bb wars" in my childhood where you can get hit on clothing and not even notice. A pellet gun's another story, though.
Old man Giddings would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
And their dog.
you are right...I limit my home buying to ones built on Indian Graveyards only
Hmmmm....technically the house isn't finished, so it isn't a house, yet.............
The unsatisfied spirit of that suicide will be hanging around the new house just waiting to haunt the new occupants. Sounds like a Stephen King story, huh?
Geez. Teenage punks aren't what they used to be when Old Ben was a teenage punk -- I mean teenager.
I live down the road from a house that an entire family was killed in, 4 kids, the wife and the father then committed suicide. Only storage barn I know that has indoor plumbing....
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