so, my little sister's friends got killed playing ding dong ditch

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pontifex

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Sucks :(

I agree with others, I always played on foot, never knew people would do it with cars too...

What do you expect nowadays? Kids have cell phones and cars and expensive shoes. Why would they actually run somewhere when they can jump in a car. Kids today don't know what it is like to freely roam neighborhoods and be real kids. Now they have play dates and hang out at the mall. Man it' sad. I want my kids to be able to play outside and know that it's time to come home when the street lights come on. I want them to have the fun that I had as a kid playing baseball in the street, trekking through the creeks, going to the park without my parents. Riding my bike without 20lbs of protective gear on.

I did this kind of crap as a kid all the time. Though we used a different term for it. We also would hide under the creek bridge and throw handfuls of moss up in the air onto the road when cars came by. We stopped doing that after we hit a police car. :\

you can't do that these days because of all the fvcked up people out there. someone's either going to kidnap them, kill them, rape/molest them, call the child welfare on you or a combination of those things.
 

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jpeyton

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The game of Ding Dong Ditch didn't kill them.

Not wanting to own up to their actions killed them.

If you can 'ding dong', but aren't fast enough to 'ditch', then own-up and take your well-deserved verbal/physical ass-whooping. Don't drive so fast that you're putting your life in danger for a childhood game.
 

manowar821

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
The game of Ding Dong Ditch didn't kill them.

Not wanting to own up to their actions killed them.

If you can 'ding dong', but aren't fast enough to 'ditch', then own-up and take your well-deserved verbal/physical ass-whooping. Don't drive so fast that you're putting your life in danger for a childhood game.

Why would ding-dong-ditch merit an ass-whooping?

It's funny. Some old geezers need to lighten up.
 

PimpJuice

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Originally posted by: BigJ
Christ, if death was the punishment for doing something stupid as a teenager, we'd barely have any posters on this board at all. Oh wait, that's right. Nobody here has ever done anything stupid as a teenager.

nobody is saying that death was the punishment......death was the consequence of doing something stupid when theres plenty of other things they could have been doing. I hope it was worth it for them. If someone did that to me 3 nights in a row, I'd chase them too.....if they crash, so be it.
 

Beau

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Originally posted by: shadow9d9
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: wahoyaho
karma

Originally posted by: elmro
You reap what you sow.


Apparently ya'll believe that death is a suitable punishment for annoying teenage pranks? If that's the case, then where do i sign the ballot that endorses torture tactics for moronic bulletin-board posts?


Death can be the consequences of stupidity... you know that as a teenager. If you end up dieing as a consequences, you fully knew it going in.. why should we have sympathy?

Agreed that stupidity can cause death, but innocent pranks do not justify death as a consequence.
 

Juice Box

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Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: tfinch2
What the hell is ding dong ditch? I've never heard it called that.

Did you even read the OP?

It's explained perfectly there.

That, and I don't think that a game could be named anything more literal...
 

jpeyton

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Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: jpeyton
The game of Ding Dong Ditch didn't kill them.

Not wanting to own up to their actions killed them.

If you can 'ding dong', but aren't fast enough to 'ditch', then own-up and take your well-deserved verbal/physical ass-whooping. Don't drive so fast that you're putting your life in danger for a childhood game.

Why would ding-dong-ditch merit an ass-whooping?

It's funny. Some old geezers need to lighten up.
At the very least a verbal ass-whooping. It sounds like those kids hit up those houses multiple times.
 

foghorn67

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What the hell are people thinking when they are crying cruel punishment? They did it to themselves. Punishment would mean, an officer arresting them, a jury finding them guilty, and the judge issuing the death sentence.
 

Gooberlx2

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Originally posted by: foghorn67
What the hell are people thinking when they are crying cruel punishment? They did it to themselves. Punishment would mean, an officer arresting them, a jury finding them guilty, and the judge issuing the death sentence.

I think some people are confusing others' words as "punishment" when the intention was "consequence". OTOH, some people are using the phrases "reap what you sow" and "got what was coming to them", "deserved", etc... Which, while accurate - stupid pranks and mistakes can wind up killing someone - is a really sh!tty attitude about it.
 

foghorn67

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Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Originally posted by: foghorn67
What the hell are people thinking when they are crying cruel punishment? They did it to themselves. Punishment would mean, an officer arresting them, a jury finding them guilty, and the judge issuing the death sentence.

I think some people are confusing others' words as "punishment" when the intention was "consequence". OTOH, some people are using the phrases "reap what you sow" and "got what was coming to them", "deserved", etc... Which, while accurate - stupid pranks and mistakes can wind up killing someone - is a really sh!tty attitude about it.
It's not the stupid prank. It's the reckless driving. Sucks they died, but at least they didn't hit a minivan with someone else's family.
 

torpid

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Originally posted by: Beau
Agreed that stupidity can cause death, but innocent pranks do not justify death as a consequence.

Doing it three times to the same person goes beyond innocent prank to me. That is a pattern of harrassment. Not that it changes your point...

 

glutenberg

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Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: shadow9d9
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: wahoyaho
karma

Originally posted by: elmro
You reap what you sow.


Apparently ya'll believe that death is a suitable punishment for annoying teenage pranks? If that's the case, then where do i sign the ballot that endorses torture tactics for moronic bulletin-board posts?


Death can be the consequences of stupidity... you know that as a teenager. If you end up dieing as a consequences, you fully knew it going in.. why should we have sympathy?

Agreed that stupidity can cause death, but innocent pranks do not justify death as a consequence.

Would you feel so much sympathy for these kids if they had killed an innocent bystander, along with themselves, as a result of running from this innocent prank?
 

TheNinja

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People saying they deserved to die are total morons. Didn't you do stupid things when you were a teenager? We all flew around with our friends, played pranks, drove too fast, etc. but I don't think anyone deserved to die over it. They were playing a game, things got out of hand and someone died. It's tragic not "karma" or anything stupid like that.
 

Beau

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Originally posted by: glutenberg
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: shadow9d9
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: wahoyaho
karma

Originally posted by: elmro
You reap what you sow.


Apparently ya'll believe that death is a suitable punishment for annoying teenage pranks? If that's the case, then where do i sign the ballot that endorses torture tactics for moronic bulletin-board posts?


Death can be the consequences of stupidity... you know that as a teenager. If you end up dieing as a consequences, you fully knew it going in.. why should we have sympathy?

Agreed that stupidity can cause death, but innocent pranks do not justify death as a consequence.

Would you feel so much sympathy for these kids if they had killed an innocent bystander, along with themselves, as a result of running from this innocent prank?

You're missing my point.

They didn't deserve to die because of their prank. They died because an act of stupidity.

Originally posted by: TheNinja
People saying they deserved to die are total morons. Didn't you do stupid things when you were a teenager? We all flew around with our friends, played pranks, drove too fast, etc. but I don't think anyone deserved to die over it. They were playing a game, things got out of hand and someone died. It's tragic not "karma" or anything stupid like that.

Exactly.
 

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To clarify first: I do not think they deserved to die. I think the prank was probably pretty light. Very annoying, but not deserving anything more than a keyed car or talk with the cops.

But come on, they managed to play out ten shades of stupid doing this. Pissing off random, possibly unstable people, and expect no consequences?Also, they were right to run. I bet if the guy caught up, he probably would have killed them like the teenager who egged the wrong car a while back. Just cause they're teens being morons like lots of other people playing 'pranks', it doesn't make it right.
 

glutenberg

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Originally posted by: Beau
You're missing my point.

They didn't deserve to die because of their prank. They died because an act of stupidity.

Wasn't the act of stupidity the initiation of the same prank three times on the same person thus leading them into another act of stupidity which led to their deaths? All we've seen is that stupid things lead to stupid consequences.
 

thecoolnessrune

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Originally posted by: TheNinja
People saying they deserved to die are total morons. Didn't you do stupid things when you were a teenager? We all flew around with our friends, played pranks, drove too fast, etc. but I don't think anyone deserved to die over it. They were playing a game, things got out of hand and someone died. It's tragic not "karma" or anything stupid like that.

I didn't :p
 

TheNinja

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Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
Originally posted by: TheNinja
People saying they deserved to die are total morons. Didn't you do stupid things when you were a teenager? We all flew around with our friends, played pranks, drove too fast, etc. but I don't think anyone deserved to die over it. They were playing a game, things got out of hand and someone died. It's tragic not "karma" or anything stupid like that.

I didn't :p

well you were probably a very boring child and teenager then....enjoyed a lot of Pong or perhaps some Advanced Dungeons and Dragons huh? - They were quite safe. ;)