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Kids, aged 12 and 13, shot by driver after throwing snowballs at passing cars

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  1. AleksandarN

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    #1 AleksandarN, Jan 6, 2020
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    #2 Andre0087, Jan 6, 2020
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    Ya think?
     
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    What?

    Did your parents watch you every minute you were outside?
     
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    I said you have to factor it in, I didn't paint teens to be saints.
     
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    What are you factoring in?

    The fact that the parents let them out unattended?
     
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    As a kid(7 years old). I threw rocks at cars but only the ones that were speeding. I thought I was doing a good deed. The driver that I hit and my parents did not think so. I learned my lesson. It wasn't a fun learning experience. But it would have been less fun had I been shot.
     
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    I think being shot is lesson enough
     
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    The fact that a bunch of kids were out there being kids without an adult, yes.
     
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    Ok.

    So once again do the parents never let the teens go out alone?
     
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    Now that's funny.
     
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    #12 Rashmon, Jan 7, 2020
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    Why try to justify an obvious over reaction?

    Rocket River
     
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    Life in prison for the kids. Could have scratched the mans paint.
     
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    How did you know which were speeding? You had a radar gun at age 7?
     
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    I could see how fast most of the cars were traveling and which ones were going faster. I went for the ones that were going faster.

    I don't have radar gun now, but I can see when car is exceeding the speed limit by a significant deal now.

    I missed a lot of my throws. I hit only once. I learned my lesson.
     
    #16 FranchiseBlade, Jan 7, 2020
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    The kids' punishment should be no TV/internet and/or community service. The dude who shot at them should go to jail.
     
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    Were the kids african american?

    Also they lived, thank god.
     
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    Good grief.

    1) Throwing snowballs at cars is dangerous. I don't want to totally dismiss that fact.
    2) YOU SHOT KIDS FOR HITTING YOUR CAR WITH A SNOWBALL? Go to hell.
     
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    Yikes. People shouldn't do that.

    Too bad guns are so prevalent in our society.
     
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