Driver Shoots and Kills Man After Amish Pranksters Throw Tomatoes at His Car

AP ^ | September 2, 2003

[Graybeard58]

"Don't have kids? Never were a kid? Why don't we just have Sharia law here in this country and really make you happy"

You're right. I did worse stuff that this as a teenager. I'm glad no one saw fit to kill me because of it.

[Zetman]

Q.What goes clippity clop, bang, clippity clop, bang?

A. Amish drive by shooting.

Looks like they have progressed from "drive-by shootings" to "random fruitings"!!

[El Gato]

Cool...I gotta see that one.

You would love what they do with folks' privies. (AKA Outhouses) :)

[strela]

Holmes County, a rural area that has what is believed to be the world's largest Amish population, sees its share of pranks by young Amish people every fall, Chief Deputy Nathan Fritz said. "They'll steal their neighbor's buggy and put it on top of a building," Fritz said.

While this is a tragic story in that a death was involved, I couldn't help but laugh uncontrollably at this line.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

They lose a lot of their "charm" as they get close to you.

Can you explain in more detail?

[Pest]

We have a lot of them around here. They are looked upon as ignorant vermin. They lose a lot of their "charm" as they get close to you. One wonders why they never have defective or deformed children. Or needy old people. Or funerals?

Oh sure, pick on the defenseless Amish. I'll bet you wouldn't talk so tough if the Amish had computers! ;)

[jjm2111]

While using a shot-gun against vandals is not warranted, firing paintballs at someone is very wrong. You can blind someone with a paintball.

[annyokie]

I thought I was the only one hearing Weird Al while reading this!

[annyokie]

What's really a scream is that they have cellphones. I lived next to a large Amish community in PA and many were the times I drove past their farm while Mrs Yoder was sitting on her porch yacking it up on her cell phone.

[exile]

Hold on everybody. Paint ball guns? Amish brats with paintball guns! Won't their elders burn them as heretics if they find that technology on them?

[Pagey]

The Amish do not believe in modern conveniences such as electricity and automobiles.

Sure Sure Sure, but the young Amish do believe in acting in the exact same way as other minority youth ( that are fast becoming the majority in Calif BTW) who aren't Amish.

[kingu]

I don't condone the behavior of the driver (he should have called the police first), but I really don't condemn it either.

I'll condem it for you. The use of a firearm in this instance is not justified in the slightest. It was a leathal action against a non-leathal threat. This guy not only went past several times, but he reportedly exited his car and challenged the tomato throwers and paint ball shooters.

It's lunatics like this person who give the liberals a big fancy target for their gun control propaganda.

[kahoutek]

clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -

BANG!

clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -clop -

What an Amish drive-by sounds like.

[Diamond]

Kids throw stuff at cars all the time...rocks, snowballs. Its more human nature than popular culture, I think.

I guess these "Amish" kids like organic projectiles, or maybe they thought it would do less damage than a rock.

Good points. I have to confess, right here on national FreeRepublic that when I was about 8 I threw a rock at (and hit) a neighbor's car going down our street. That man screeched the brakes after the rock hit his car and man I ran like hell. I knew when the rock was being propelled foward by my right hand that what I was doing was wrong, very wrong, but somehow that didn't stop my depraved mind from acting on my impulse. I not only feel guilty; I am guilty of that assault. P.S. please don't tell anybody, even though someday I'm sure I'll have to answer for this deed. I must say that in spite of my ignorance and malice the man couldn't have shot me even if he had a gun - I was very fast in those days.

I don't know why I'm telling you this, except that it is a cathartic, cleansing experience to do so.

Cordially,