Posted on 03/13/2014 12:11:59 PM PDT by Sopater
Edited on 03/13/2014 12:16:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Homicide investigators are gathering evidence after a father shoots and kills a teenage boy he found in his daughter's bedroom.
A spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff's office said Deputy constables from pct 4 responded to a 911 call around 2:20 a.m. about a shooting in the Bridgestone Lake Subdivision in Northwest Harris County.
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We have cell phones now, and I work at home, and way to miss the damn point completely. You sound like a retard.
Well, speaking as a father with 3 teenage daughters, if one wants to invite a girlfriend in the house when I’m not around, they don’t really have to call me. I mean... at 16, I let her drive. I figure if she wants to invite a girlfriend in to whatever it is they do, she doesn’t have to go hunt me down for permission.
So if a 16 year old girl wants to invite her best friend and next door neighbor in, she has to call you and ask permission? And I’M the retard??
then he would have made your daughter a liar culpable for the death of another mother’s teenager
happy family?
Well, I guess we have different rules, because if ANYONE was coming to my house, whether I was home or not, my daughters called me or my wife (since it really wasn’t all that hard to “hunt” us down) and asked permission.
Hell, my youngest daughter is 18, still lives at home, and she STILL asks if her friends can come over.
Some people roll differently than others, this doesn’t make them wrong, it simply makes them different.
This detail makes all the difference to me. Clearly, this man did not charge into his daughter's bedroom hellbent on killing the boy.
Well said. I pray that I never have to violently defend myself or my family, for any reason at all.
Agree. Preceded by a struggle, and it was at 2:30 am. I predict some tension at family reunions though.
Okay Mr. Hardass. I have 18 and 16 year old daughters, and trust them enough to invite a friend in without tracking me down for permission. If you don’t trust your late teenage children THAT much, and their judgement is that questionable, then good luck when they hit the real world.
But, your house, your rules.
Not celebrating as that is the act of knee-jerk liberals.
The father thought he was a rapist and he wouldn’t obey commands.
Are you defending this guy because this is something you are stupid enough to do?
I trust my children, but not other people’s children.
Yep, my house, my rules.
Oh, that’s funny!
You know the problem with you is that you seem to think that the only way you can make your point is to be an asshole. I thought we were having a a simple discussion. No need to call names and be such a smart ass. If you have a point, make it; no need to add the names and snide remarks.
I trust my children, I DON’T TRUST PEOPLE I DON’T KNOW! A GREAT case in point would be this situation on which we are commenting.
I am pretty sure that this boy ASSUMED that he knew this girl well enough that she would at least take up for him and admit that she knew him and help IF this situation arose. Instead, she said, “I don’t know him!” He trusted her with his life and unfortunately, it cost him that very price.
In my home I have valuables, spare keys, tools, guns, etc... I am not willing to allow my kids to put my family, our only home and all our possessions, some of which I use to make a living, at risk, just to prove that I trust them.
They have lots of friends over, my 18 year old had a sleep over with three of her friends (when she was 17) when my wife and I went to Galveston for a weekend. Of course, I knew all three of the girls she had over and I knew that nothing was going to happen, because I knew her and those involved. My girls had friends that had “expressed consent” to come over at anytime - after I got to know their friends.
So, I am involved in my daughters lives and that of their friends, I guess I am just too much of a dad and not enough of a trusting friend.
Well...my three oldest, who are out of the house, have seemed to make it quite well on their own through their up bringing, so I don’t think I did that bad of a job.
And, it is MY house (not theirs) and it is MY rules (not yours).
“Certainly the teenage boy should have been exceedingly polite, respectful, conciliatory, apologetic and obedient to the father.”
This is especially true if the 16 year old is pregnant through this escapade. Someone unthinking enough to do this probably took no other precautions either.
“I knew all three of the girls she had over and I knew that nothing was going to happen, because I knew her and those involved.”
Agreed. OTOH, if it went down as described, it was justifiable homicide. He'd be no-billed anywhere in Texas.
Sad for everyone, but the father is not at fault.
The way you put it, it sounds like evolution in action. There are times that stupidity can be lethal.
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