Posted on 06/07/2007 7:59:37 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
11-Year-Old Arrested For Using Rubber Band Gun OCOEE (Florida), June 7: An 11-year-old Ocoee boy was arrested for playing with a toy gun. Police said the arrest was necessary, because it was a safety issue.
The boy was using a rubber band gun and his father said the kid did nothing wrong, but police said they take it as a serious threat and the 11-year-old is facing felony charges.
The crime isn't very common, but Ocoee police said it is serious. It centers on an 11-year0old boy and his toy short-barreled shotgun.
The incident started Sunday afternoon, when the 11-year-old was riding in his dad's pickup near Clarke Road and White Road in Ocoee. Someone driving nearby called police after they said the boy pointed what looked like a real gun out the window. The victim told police she was afraid for her life.
"With that type of behavior, it's hard to tell if it's a real gun or not, especially in their car," said Sgt. Randy Conyers, Ocoee Police Department.
But, according to the charging affidavit, the 11-year-old's dad said nothing was wrong with what his son had done and that he used to do it as a kid. The boy even told police he was pretending to be a cop and thought the victims were laughing with him.
The gun itself only fires rubber bands and was checked into evidence. Police didn't comment on the weapon's color or release any images. Still, the victims said they were frightened and, police said, toy or no toy, the charges are justified.
Eyewitness News spoke to the father of the suspect on the phone. He said his son is out of juvenile detention and that a judge told him the case would be dropped. He also confirmed that the gun was black, but that it looked more like a stick than a gun.
Looks to me as though some real common sense is needed here, from the “victim” to the cops to the kid’s dad, and to the kid. When we have adults all acting like spoiled little brats, (re: US House of Representatives and US Senate), society is not being served well, and it is way past time we have to keep putting up with this B.S.! They all NEED TO GROW UP, and soon.
In other news, Congress is quietly moving ahead with HR 1022, the new “assault weapons ban”. This one HAS no ‘sunset’ and pretty much includes 90% of all firearms in American law-abiding civilian hands.
The criminals and real terrorists (the ones screaming ‘admiral ackbar’) will still get to keep their full auto rifles/subguns as will the congress' private security forces (ala Fienstein). The rest of us, however, will be disarmed.
He can do some hard time with Ralphie who I believe is still serving time for being caught with that Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle.
Yep. If the lady 'victim' and Randy the Cop are in the majority in this country, we really do need Hillary elected to take care of us. Unbelievable!
I didn’t say the cop showed good judgment, I was commenting on the dad’s culpability. It was black, it was shotgun shaped, and the kid was pointing it at other cars in the new world of drive-by shooting. Maybe you’re not familiar with the crime reports down here but the locals are. The kid is lucky that some good old boy didn’t cap his arse or that some other driver catching the barrel of something pointed at them didn’t slam on their brakes and cause a multi-car pile up, perhaps with fatalities. But dad is laughing it off. I didn’t say punish the kid, I said punish the dad. I stand by that.
A common misconception but no, it does not.
There's certainly no value added by that comment.
See post 14 and kiss my arse
Idiots!
Or an anti-gun zealot would claim so.
Do you really believe 100 million American Citizens are just going to "toss `em in the truck" on collection day?
I don't.
“The victim told police she was afraid for her life.”
I fear for her life, too. She’s not in control of it.
Its clear to me the charges were because the father said it was no big deal. He copped an attitued, and they “showed him” at the expense of his kid.
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