Originally posted by: Zebo
The kind of community that realizes decent people snap when punk ass kids run all over them and a respected war vet- 2nd degree at best.
If you get someone like me on there - who thinks tresspassing should be a capitial offense - may not get a conviction at all.
The ONLY evidence that the boy OR his folks were bothering the man at all is the testimony of some lunatic who measures his lawn and shoots people who walk on it.
Sounds REAL credible to me. More likely, the kid went on the lawn once five years ago to get a ball, the man yelled at him, and the kids parents told him to take it easy. Five years later the kid touches the lawn again...presto! Five years of harrassment! Obviously worth shooting someone over.
Not to mention the kid didn't have much of a choice about where to walk...this is an area with no sidewalks! If he'd walked in the street, he would have gotten run over by a car, and you would have posted about stupid kids playing in the street.