JohnG3
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If the father had been doing his job he'd have told the kid he got what he deserved for pulling the prank and the kid would have learned a positive lesson. Now he just learned he can blame others for his poor decisions.
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willald
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JohnG3 wrote:If the father had been doing his job he'd have told the kid he got what he deserved for pulling the prank and the kid would have learned a positive lesson. Now he just learned he can blame others for his poor decisions.
This is my thoughts exactly. This is EXACTLY what I would have told my son if he did a prank like this and got hurt doing it. AAMOF, another part of his body would be sore after it was over, too. And, after that he woulda got to go over and apologize to the homeowner for what he done.
Charges against the homeowner? LOL, if I was the kid's father, I woulda come over and personally apologized to the homeowner (as would my son), and I would then thank the homeowner for helping teach my son an important lesson about consequences of his actions (and for not shooting him).
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Good father example:
I hauled a teenage DUI to jail one night after he ran into a tree. He was non stop talking about his big time attorney father and all that was going to happen to me. Next day when I came to work I had a phone call waiting when I walked into the office. It was the boy and did he ever apologize for his actions of the night before. When he was through his father had his turn talking to me and thanking me for the contact and consideration given his son during the arrest.
"Sometimes" life is just good to a police officer.
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Liriope
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Not a bad kid, just another bad parent. As a father, I also would have told my kid that he was lucky he was not hurt worse and "suck it up and shut up, you got what you deserved." I would have then made him apologize to the home owner and assure him it would never happen again.
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Liriope wrote:Not a bad kid, just another bad parent. As a father, I also would have told my kid that he was lucky he was not hurt worse and "suck it up and shut up, you got what you deserved." I would have then made him apologize to the home owner and assure him it would never happen again.
Totally agree! Except, not sure that the parent is terrible. Great parents have kids that do stupid things and terrible parents have good kids. Don't think the justice system should be tied up for petty stuff like this.
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Consequences are; the kid(s) now knows he can do this with impunity. That particualr homeowner is now fair game for any little cretin with a "show-off" complex. With the charges against the homeowner perhaps resulting in him being found guilty by some stupid judge who will trot out that old canard "when they ran there was no more threat to you so you should have just sucked it up and let them repeat it tomorrow and the next day and...."; homeowner may very well find himself the victim of a lawsuit claiming damages to poor little Johnny's spyche! This is why little Johnny now likes setting fire to cat's etc..
By all means let's reward the little miscreants by giving them the 15 minutes of fame, with no negative repercussions, they never would have gotten otherwise thus encourageing them to move on to bigger and more outrageous schemes!
Dad sounds like the kind of mook who will milk this for all it's worth.
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Charges dropped:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/24/pro........s-eastern-ny-man-tackled-teen-prankster/
Someone in the DA's office went to work with some common sense.
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Deb and Ed M
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Kids don't "play" any more - they're inside in front of video games/computer/TV. So the homeowner who has someone beating on their back door at the same time someone is ringing their front door at 10 PM isn't thinking "what are those little rascals up to now?".... the kid is lucky he wasn't shot.
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traxtermax
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Pawz4me wrote:I place much more blame on the kid's father than on the system.... I don't think this "system" existed 40 years ago because in the '60's the kid would have taken his lumps, gotten reamed out by his father and a phone call made to the adult victim by the kid's father to apologize for the inconvenience his son caused to one of the "neighborhood elders". Teenagers don't have the right to disrupt another teenager's tranquility let alone that of an adult. Forty years ago I think the kid would have been in trouble, so in that sense, I think the system has changed. .
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And those of you jumping up to say how badly our system is working, can now retract your statements. It appears to have worked quite well in this case.. Sometimes rushing to judgement is not the best approach..
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