re: Argument over lake boat launch escalates quickly

Posted by nealnan8

Atlanta

Member since Oct 2016

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:05 pm to Proximo

If you watch the video, it's pretty clear.
Old dude "this boat launch is for residents only"
Teen - " my friend lives here (friend is part of his group)"
Old dude and teen start arguing with each other.

Does not matter how "disabled or not disabled" the kid was. The old dude attacked him. Case closed.

Posted by tigerbaiter

Member since Dec 2006

707 posts

Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:19 pm to ronricks

Agree. He should have stopped at the double slap though . Let the smartass kid’s embarrassment do the rest of the damage.

Posted by Breauxsif

Member since May 2012

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:26 pm to tigerbaiter

That boomer slap

Posted by boxcarbarney

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:27 pm to Bow08tie

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Young man seemed to be able to walk out of the water without crutches. Young man FAFO trying to mouth off to an older man.

His crutches are on the ground next to him when the fight starts.

Look, I don't like mouthy kids either, but I've never felt the need to drown one.

Posted by Lou Loomis

A pond. Ponds good for you.

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:43 pm to Proximo

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Biggest bunch of pussy friends I’ve ever seen. That ole man would’ve been napping with the fishes if he tried drowning me or a buddy

The only thing they had intentions of doing was filming it for views and a payday. This is just provocation entertainment that these frickers do now. Old man should’ve taken all three of them and put them in the lake where nobody could find them

Posted by tigerbaiter

Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:48 pm to Breauxsif

He got both sides of the hand.

Posted by UKWildcats

Lexington, KY

Member since Mar 2015

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 3:53 pm to boxcarbarney

I watched about half the video before the awful Yankee accents made me shut it down.

My assumption is this retiree got pissed off because these college age kids were riding their jet skis on a small private lake, probably in some small community neighborhood lake.

You obviously can't try to drown someone over that. Holy shite. But IF my assumption is correct, yeah, Id be annoyed too. You buy a lot in a neighborhood like that because typically you want space between you and your neighbors as well as the ambience + peace and quiet.

I don't know how to reconcile that statement with "well, what if one of the actual neighbors owns jet skis?". Tough shite I guess. Youve got nothing to stand on there argument wise. Move I guess if it bothers you that much.

But (again) IF it's a small private neighborhood lake closed to the public and kids are just coming and ripping and running that don't live there, yeah, I wouldn't be happy either.

But I'd call the police and have them trespassed, not go to the lakefront, argue like a jackass, get into a fight, and then try to drown someone. Holy shite.

This post was edited on 6/5/26 at 3:55 pm

Posted by Sam Quint

Member since Sep 2022

8978 posts

Posted on 6/5/26 at 4:13 pm to boxcarbarney

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Look, I don't like mouthy kids either, but I've never felt the need to drown one

Oh I’ve felt the need. Just having acted on it.

Posted by DRMPHD

College Station, Texas

Member since Jun 2018

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 4:17 pm to Sam Quint

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Posted by mdomingue

Lafayette, LA

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 6/5/26 at 4:18 pm to Sam Quint

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Nah frick all that nonsense. People like you and me are 100% Generation X. Same childhood as the technical Generation X. Latchkey kids, corded landlines, pay phones, no cell phones, etc.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow my friend, but we are millennials. Elder millennials or xillennials perhaps, but millennials all the same.

Gen X guys are the ones still wearing cargo shorts, chain wallets, and have goatees. We’re more evolved.

I'm a late Boomer(62), and my wife is an early GenXer(66). Neither of us feel like we fit the Stereotype of the generation we are classed in.

Generational classifications are generally kind of iffy at best, and lamenting the shortcomings of all the other generations is kind of dumb. But we all do it

Posted by CocomoLSU

Inside your dome.

Member since Feb 2004

156781 posts

Posted on 6/5/26 at 4:30 pm to Texjohnson

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Yeah not sure where I stand on this attempted murder

This thread is wild. Some of you are saying you aren’t sure about attempted murder.

What the frick else would you call it when you try to strangle someone underwater? “Attempted I was just going to teach him a lesson until he passed out”?

I can’t believe nobody did anything after that old dude open hand slapped that kid. That would’ve set me off.

And his friends suck for letting that shite go on as long as it did, especially the assault part. I'd like to think my friends are stopping that shite as soon as I’m being strangled and held underwater. That was ridiculous.

Kid was also an a-hole too. Begging a clearly pissed off old dude to shoot you is definitely an interesting strategy, I suppose. “Are the cops gonna shoot me?” being his first question when cops were brought up was also strange.

I did think it was hilarious that two separate people on the same page asked Volvagia if he was retarded though.