re: Man(71) accused of firing gun when he catches kids TP rolling his house (Welsh ,La)

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Next time use a double barrel shotgun loaded with rock salt.

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When I was a kid a buddy and I built a raft out of a piece of plywood and a bunch of empty plastic bottles (some kind of insecticide LOL). He lived on a sizeable farm and they had about a 5 acre tank on it. We had a hurricane stall out in the area and drop about a foot of rain in a day causing severe flooding...turned that 5 acre pond into about an 80 acre lake...just the thing for 2 9 years olds with a raft and an imagination. We set sail on that thing and wound up on their neighbors property. Floated right over the barbwir fence between them LOL. All fun and games until the old man next door came charging up in his truck screaming for us to get off his property. What he did not realize was that we had no way of directing or propelling the damned thing...we were merly sailing along wherever the wind took us. This did not matter, he was pissed off. Took an old pump gun out of the rack in the back window and unloaded on us....we bot hit the water and swam back to my friends side of the fence. This was in October by the way and it was pretty damned chilly. Anyway we made it to my buddies house and his mama asked why we were wet. We told her we fell off our raft. She asked what all that shooting was about and we said we didn't know, thinking we were gonna get our arse whipped. She kept on and got his dad in involved. His dad finally got us to admit we had floated across the fence and the neighbor had shot at us. We thought we was going to take a beating...instead his dad turned white as a sheet and started using the most colorful language either of us had ever heard....he put us in his truck, drove over to that man's house, called him out in the yard and when the man showed up he had a shotgun. The dad took it away from him and whipped his arse properly. My friends mom and the man's wife both called the police and they showed up and after finding that the man had shot at us told him he was lucky to be alive LOL. Poor bastard was beat no end and humiliated. Then everyone's attention turned to the 2 9 year olds who had caused all the ruckus. We were indeed whipped pretty soundly, me twice because my father whipped my arse when I got home....The man who shot at us swore to the police it was rock salt. He did not hit us so I don't know but he swore it was. The police did not seem to care if it was or it wasnt

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the chances of it hitting a person are about the same as winning powerball

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And yet there are power all winners all the time.

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frick rolling houses

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This.

I’m not saying that I never participated as an adolescent, but as an adult with a mortgage, etc. that shite pisses me off. I now understand why my dad would never let us so that out of his house as kids.

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Time have changed. When I was sixteen and stealing watermelons, the owner of the patch stepped out on the porch, fired off a 12 gauge and #6 shot rained down on us.

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Pre-everyone is a victim days.

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Actions have consequences

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No charges should be on him.


So the old man’s actions shouldn’t have consequences?

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It depends what the actions were. Providing the detail that he fired a gun is not enough information.
If his porch is within 50 ft of the tree and he could have just hollered at them, sure that was overkill. If this tree was a couple hundred feet out and all he did was fire a couple rounds into the ground, that's a bit different and still not necessarily a threat of violence to anyone.
There's a lot of variables that could play into a situation that make it go one way or the other.

YOU MAD BRO ?

If they were just rolling the guy house it’s flat out ridiculous to shoot a gun at kids now if they were egging his vehicle or house it’s a different story. If you think it’s justifiable for him to shoot at kids then we would all be shot at when we were kids that’s just stupid it’s harmless to toilet paper someone’s house.

His high school aged grandkids live with him kids aren’t just randomly rolling old guys houses lol

He should have robbed a CVS instead. Then the judge would have handed him an ice cream cone.

It’s a small school all the kids know each other you’re talking about a school with less than 300 kids