“Don’t [BLEEP] with another man’s vehicle.”
Posted on 11/01/2010 10:06:32 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ATLANTA (AP) -- Authorities say a driver enraged because a 17-year-old boy egged his Mercedes on Halloween fatally shot the prankster in the neck and throat as he tried to run away.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones says the driver confronted the teen and fired 10 shots at him around 8 p.m. Sunday.
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Would an egg really call thousands of dollars of damage? Generally they just break and make a mess, and you can wash them off, or pay $20 and have someone re-detail your car if you are obsessed.
Kids egg houses and cars all the time. Not saying it’s right, but I would never expect to get shot over it.
The worst that happened to me as a kid was a group of young adults jumped out of a car, grabbed a tire iron, and chased us. But we were smart, were throwing from up a hill, and new escape routes through the back yards and into the woods.
Can’t outrun a bullet though.
“I take it you don’t have a Mercedes. I had a 1957 190SL convertible with a 1911 Colt 200 grn HP protecting it. Some things you just don’t egg.”
I agree. If the car in question was a late model SL65 AMG I might vote for justifiable homocide if I was on the jury. Just kidding. Now if some punk egged my Shelby GT500...............
Perhaps the fact the egger was RUNNING AWAY from the car was a slight hint (quite subtle, I admit) that car-jacking wasn’t the purpose of the egging?
The guy in the Merc would have saved TWO lives, and a pantload of money, had he just swallowed his pride and gone to a car wash.
As for what he’ll be swallowing now....
Insufficient data. What was the exchange between the driver and the egger?
Did the egger act like or imply he was armed to the driver? Reach for his waistband or pocket?
Not enough info to fly off the handle here yet.
As for 10 shots, if it’s a 9mm in a “B” zone the shooter can hit the target and not know he’s scored. You fire three, and the target is still standing there! Three or four more...then add a couple adrenaline misses, and you are at 10.
If it’s a .380 or a .25, it gets worse.
Yup, cheaper, too. Like I said above. I wanted revenge, but I didn't want anyone dead.
The yolks on you,tavaris.
OK, now that was clever.
On Halloween eve when I was 14 I was walking home from my friends house when a car came up from behind. I had a premonition and veered off the sidewalk toward someone’s front door looking for sanctuary. My premonition was correct and I was pelted with eggs from the passengers. It wasn’t just one - it was a half-dozen.
I reached down and grabbed a rock and pitched it, breaking the rear window of the jalopy. Then I turned and ran. They chased me for over an hour and at one point fired a gun at me. They never caught me and didn’t identify me.
But I knew the car and the driver. He was one of those stereotypical high school bullies - not much going for him but size.
Years later I ran into him at a bar in a neighboring town. He was onstage doing emcee work for the bands. I climbed onstage and beat the stuffing out of him. I got bounced and a permanent “86” from the bar.
I always considered it a fair exchange. ;-)
“Don’t [BLEEP] with another man’s vehicle.”
Did an egg really do more damage to your paint job than random birds pooping on it?
Personally, I find it funny when people spend so much time making their cars look so spotless that they are scared to death to drive them outside lest something bad happen to them.
Cars are utility tools. They are meant to be used, which means they get scratched, dinged, and otherwise dented up in the process. When people treat them like status symbols, start parking at angles across 4 parking spaces just to be sure no peasants ding them, and decide they should kill a kid for hitting their precious god-image with an egg, we have invested WAY TO MUCH in “things”.
Can, and did. Eggs eat the clear-coat and paint. If you're lucky enough to get to the egg quickly, then you can avoid it. In my situation, it did several hundred dollars worth of damage in 1980s dollars, and that was only to repaint the two spots where the eggs hit, not the whole car.
The article said they detained a driver of a GOLD Mercedes. But it didn’t make it clear whether they were certain THAT was the one that got hit.
I don’t care if you had a GULLWING. No car, or its paint job is worth another human’s life, especially for a minor prank that 11 minutes of effort and 0.02 worth of soap and water can erase completely.
If your car is so precious that you don’t wnt it damaged ever by anything, put it up on blocks in your living room, then hermetically seal the room from the rest of the house.
“Dry egg is SOOOO hard to wash off”. Then don’t be a MORON, and wash the thing asap if it’s THAT important to you. My first car was a ‘66 Mustang that had been egged, and the idiot that previously owned it let the egg sit until it ate through the paint.
Yes, the KID was wrong, and made a stupid choice.
Are you saying YOU have NEVER made a stupid choice, especially as a teen?
This kid may or may not have been trouble. We’ll never know, now, will we?
Years back I remember the kid who was shot for spraying a guy with a super soaker.
Yes.
and decide they should kill a kid for hitting their precious god-image with an egg, we have invested WAY TO MUCH in “things”.
Never said death was justified.
I invested my time in my car because it was what I had, and it was time spent with my dad as a teen. He taught me to work on it, and gave me a skill for a lifetime. It wasn't just a thing. It was also not something I feared driving. I didn't park it across multiple spots, but I did park it as far away from everyone else that I could.
Another aspiring rapper snuffed out before his time.
This is how I envision the events:
Punk throwing eggs at cars. Hits a gold Mercedes.
Punk defiantly stands there while said Mercedes driver stops and turns around.
(I’d be crapping my pants and running for the hills)
Punk and driver exhange words. Driver pulls weapons.
Punk then and only then starts running away. Too bad he passes away before he runs away.
There’s this really miraculous product out now that protects the finish on your vehicle from lots of things, including the soot that falls from the sky downwind of pulp mills, from birds’ butts, and those ovoid objects tossed by some kids on Hallowe’en.
It’s called WAX!
If you are so wound up about the finish on your car, and wax won’t protect it for the amount of time you need to get it washed, you probably buffed all that lovingly applied wax right off the thing. It may shine reassuringly, but you’ve burnt off all that wax and put a serious hurt on your expensive paint too, with your power buffer.
Ten minutes and the eggs had eaten through the wax and permanently damaged the paint? I call BS, hyperbole and utter nonsense.
Incompetent wax application by a DUmmie is extremely likely, too.
“This kid may or may not have been trouble. We’ll never know, now, will we? “
Well Don - Ask the Coroner or the funeral director if he’s in trouble, will ya ?
Snoot ;o)
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