Teen Shot in Head at 'Haunted' House

ABC News ^ | 8/24/06 | JoANNE VIVIANO

[Teflonic]

[mtbopfuyn]

Hopefully he'll be made to exchange his mama as a roommate for a big dude named Bubba.

[2001convSVT]

Irresponsible gun owners like this hurt everyones right to self defense. Why would a jerk like this shoot randomly at a fleeing car that poses no harm directly to him? Prayers for a full recovery of his teenage victim.

[TomGuy]

Why?

When did we give us the right to defend our property?

It sounds as if these and other 'teens' have a pattern of harassing this man and trespassing on his property.

[Teflonic]

He looks a lot like Norman Bates, he'll likely get a better haircut in prison at least. People like this give gun owners a bad name, I hope he gets a maximum sentence.

[isthisnickcool]

Maybe the girls were doing some dumb stuff but it looks like the guy shot at the car which was on the street from his bedroom window? That's brave. He indicates he was trying to shoot the tires out? Look at the coke bottle glasses this guy has, I wonder if he had his glasses on.

I don't see where this bozo was in and danger at all. He had no business taking shots at cars on the street. Heck, even if they were on his property he had no reason to fire on them that I can see.

[frogjerk]

It sounds as if these and other 'teens' have a pattern of harassing this man and trespassing on his property.

Sounds more like a "I dare you to knock on the haunted house" teenage experience than "harrasment".

Yeah, a car full of cheerleaders is really a threat.

[frogjerk]

A car full of cheerleaders is a threat, don't ya know?

[frogjerk]

People like this give gun owners a bad name

Amen to that.

[proudpapa]

He's going to be single for a long time if he keeps shooting whenever a carload of young ladies comes to pay him a visit.

[isthisnickcool]

When did we give us the right to defend our property?

He apparently shot from a window at a car on the street. What's he defending? The street?

I have several rifles and shoot them at the range. I always know what I'm aiming at and I'll hit what I shoot at. Blasting away at a car on the street is crazy. He could have shot people that were not in the car.

If what this guy did makes sense then I suppose when Freepers were chanting in front of Al Gores "house" then it would be OK for Gore to go Mabbearpig on the Freepers and shoot at will?

[isthisnickcool]

Mabbearpig=Manbearpig

I'm super serial.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I'd give him a twenty on the basis of his haircut alone!

[mtbopfuyn]

When did we give us the right to defend our property?

When did we ever have the right to claim a public street our property?

[Ghengis]

It sounds as if these and other 'teens' have a pattern of harassing this man and trespassing on his property.

The neighborhood word on this case:
The local kids have been harassing this fellow and his mom for years. It seems that it was bad luck for these kids that their harassment was what drove an isolated, social outcast over the edge after years of mistreatment.

If a social outcast keeps to himself/herself and doesn't bother you, it doesn't pay to harass the outcast. And it is VERY unwise to pile on with more harassment when others have been doing the same for many years. All persons do have a breaking point.

That being said I feel that this fellow committed a criminal act and should be prosecuted.

[prion]

Barezinsky and two of her friends got out of their car parked near the home about 10 p.m. and took a few steps onto the property, Francis said.

Yes, he was clearly wrong to fire at the car in the street when it went around the block. It sounds like he got a lot of this, though. Basically, he's creepy looking and she's cute. If it were the other way around, the sympathy would be also.

[auntyfemenist]

You would think that he would go outside and hang out or something. In fact, he could have put a stop to the rumors and harassment by communicating and also by going out into the sunlight occasionally to remove the weeds. I remember there was a house like that in the neighbor hood when we were kids, there always is.

[weegie]

Ill bet hes got a really big spooky cellar that opens into a disused mine and had discovered that there was oil deposits under the old funfair.

He would have got away with it to if it wasnt for those pesky kids!!!

[TomGuy]

I suppose when Freepers were chanting

You apparently are reading a different story than I did. Those girls weren't out on the sidewalk chanting (as in protesting). They had previously trespassed that night, according to the story, and there has been a pattern of similar trespassing and harassing on other late nights.

[Teflonic]

Shooting with a video camera rather than a rifle would have much more effective if he felt harrassed.