Teen shot when he enters wrong home

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Pantoot

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Weird, this exact situation was one of the examples from my CCW class on Saturday.
Know your target...

Drunk neighbor kid thinks he is sneaking into his own house late at night. As the instructor stated, whether or not charges are filed, how do you think that shooter's oatmeal tastes every morning?
 

Dirigible

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Troll on, brah.

Part A of my post was admittedly hyperbole. I'll restate.

A) The shooter should go to jail for a long time.
B) Guns should be abolished.

All the posters in this thread just fine with people killing kids are fucked in the head.
 

waggy

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Weird, this exact situation was one of the examples from my CCW class on Saturday.
Know your target...

Drunk neighbor kid thinks he is sneaking into his own house late at night. As the instructor stated, whether or not charges are filed, how do you think that shooter's oatmeal tastes every morning?


weird. this exact situation was in my "don't be a fucking idiot" class.

When getting drunk make sure you get into the correct house. I wonder how his oatmeal taste? probably like dirt?
 

Ns1

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Part A of my post was admittedly hyperbole. I'll restate.

A) The shooter should go to jail for a long time.
B) Guns should be abolished.

All the posters in this thread just fine with people killing kids are fucked in the head.

How do you know the kid wasn't there for nefarious reasons? You don't, so it is what it is.
 

waggy

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Part A of my post was admittedly hyperbole. I'll restate.

A) The shooter should go to jail for a long time.
B) Guns should be abolished.

All the posters in this thread just fine with people killing kids are fucked in the head.

only drunk kids that enter a house in the middle of the night. oh and through a window.


i been thinking adding grumpy old men too..
 

sourn

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The gene pool has improved? You two are fucking psychopaths. God forbid your children ever experiment with alcohol or maybe take some kind of hallucinogen. If you want to discuss the IQ of people that take mind altering substances then feel free to peruse the long history of people far more gifted that than you pathetic excuses for a human that have experimented with shit. Bill Gates has experimented with LSD, but apparently needs to be removed from the gene pool.

I've done plenty of drugs.. Yet I always managed to tell if it was my house or not.

A car would be understandable. A house.. Get fucking real.
 

Dirigible

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only drunk kids that enter a house in the middle of the night. oh and through a window.


i been thinking adding grumpy old men too..

"Get off my lawn!"

*BLAM*



Social Security is saved! Won't run out of money after all! :awe:
 

CLite

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Seriously? That father is blaming this on the window being unlocked?:rolleyes:

I imagine when your child is abruptly taken away from your mind would just dwell on all the possible things that could have gone differently. Note in the video they say the father in no way blames the shooter. This obviously is him just wishful thinking, clearly his first wish was that his son didn't go out drinking, or perhaps that he wasn't so hard on his son that he had to sneak through windows to come back late at night.
 

olds

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A) The shooter should get the death penalty.
B) Guns should be outlawed. All of them.

trollboat.jpg
 

CLite

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I've done plenty of drugs.. Yet I always managed to tell if it was my house or not.

A car would be understandable. A house.. Get fucking real.

I can't count how many times people in college ended up in the wrong dorm room or whatever after a night of drinking like retards. Also plenty of stories of people pissing in the wrong room (i.e. wrong turn and end up peeing in someone else's room). The video shows houses that look somewhat similar as well.

It's obviously very possible for some wasted 16 year old to have made the mistake of trying to get into the wrong window.
 

TallBill

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I imagine when your child is abruptly taken away from your mind would just dwell on all the possible things that could have gone differently. Note in the video they say the father in no way blames the shooter. This obviously is him just wishful thinking, clearly his first wish was that his son didn't go out drinking, or perhaps that he wasn't so hard on his son that he had to sneak through windows to come back late at night.


What the father thinks isnt law. Which is why bringing sandy hook parents in front of congress is absurd. Then again so was bringing MLB players in front of congress. Then again, so is a lot of stuff that they do.
 

GagHalfrunt

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The gene pool has improved? You two are fucking psychopaths. God forbid your children ever experiment with alcohol or maybe take some kind of hallucinogen. If you want to discuss the IQ of people that take mind altering substances then feel free to peruse the long history of people far more gifted that than you pathetic excuses for a human that have experimented with shit. Bill Gates has experimented with LSD, but apparently needs to be removed from the gene pool.

You might be a bigger idiot that that kid. I experimented with alcohol, decided to speed up my research and got enough funding to embark on a really ambitious project to drink all the beer, bourbon and tequila on the east coast. It didn't work, but it wasn't for a lack of effort. And in all that time I never once forgot where my house was and I never once climbed through ANY window let alone one that didn't belong to me. For that matter I've never even seen a person that was capable of walking and climbing being so drunk as to not recognize his own house. That level of incoherence is always accompanied by being curled up in a ball on the floor puking all over yourself.

Kid illegally broke into a home that wasn't his, kid got whacked. Tough shit. My only sympathy lies with the guy who was forced to kill a dangerous intruder.
 

JulesMaximus

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Yeah this is unfortunate. Wouldn't charge the shooter though. Kid fucked up, shooter has to live with it forever.

Pretty much this. Horrible thing to have to go through for both families.

Is this just because you know spidey and his self-defense views? And you are a gun-control liberal? :awe:

Well played well played.

Use the liberal shame tactic some more, only more passive aggressive and liberal-like.

I own 13 guns you halfwit.
 
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CLite

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What the father thinks isnt law. Which is why bringing sandy hook parents in front of congress is absurd. Then again so was bringing MLB players in front of congress. Then again, so is a lot of stuff that they do.

I'm confused..... I was just discussing a grieving father who has the fortitude and presence of mind to forgive his son's shooter and try to move on. I wasn't discussing law, obviously I don't think any charges should be pressed regardless of how the father took the situation.

Just a terribly unfortunate situation.
 

CLite

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You might be a bigger idiot that that kid. I experimented with alcohol, decided to speed up my research and got enough funding to embark on a really ambitious project to drink all the beer, bourbon and tequila on the east coast. It didn't work, but it wasn't for a lack of effort. And in all that time I never once forgot where my house was and I never once climbed through ANY window let alone one that didn't belong to me. For that matter I've never even seen a person that was capable of walking and climbing being so drunk as to not recognize his own house. That level of incoherence is always accompanied by being curled up in a ball on the floor puking all over yourself.

Kid illegally broke into a home that wasn't his, kid got whacked. Tough shit. My only sympathy lies with the guy who was forced to kill a dangerous intruder.

OK you're right, I am so dumb that I created false memories of what other people did in college.

You're such an internet badass for saying "kid got whacked. tough shit." Maybe you could use some of that badassness to make yourself not be such a miserable prick.
 

blankslate

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How the hell do you get so drunk that you go to the wrong place?

I've been so drunk that I couldn't get up the day after until well into the late afternoon and I've never failed to find my way to my own bed.
 

MaxPayne63

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OK you're right, I am so dumb that I created false memories of what other people did in college.

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You have to be trolling. There's no other explanation for equating going to the wrong dorm room with going to the wrong house.
 

Lifted

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The neighbor grabbed his gun before investigating the matter and shot the teen after he fired a warning shot
Warning shot? The neighbor is moron. Nice way to warn the intruder that you're armed and give them time to go for their own gun, if they aren't already holding it. First shot should have been to the intruders chest, second to his head.
 

CLite

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You have to be trolling. There's no other explanation for equating going to the wrong dorm room with going to the wrong house.

Yes, completely impossible when you've lived in your house for less than a year and they look similar.

article said:
Shawn Gordley says his son snuck out of the house Saturday night and went drinking with friends. They walked home from the party. Caleb went in through a back window, mistaking the neighbor’s house for his own. Caleb had lived in his home for less than a year, and the houses look similar.

http://newsone.com/2291223/caleb-gordley-virginia/

Video states he was two doors down and it pans and shows they look extremely similar (1:40 in the video)

google view aerial view (no street view)
 
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waggy

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