In fact, I think at the age of fifteen, I courted an older lady on someone's front garden. The only person doing the shooting was me. If you know what I mean.
In fact, I think at the age of fifteen, I courted an older lady on someone's front garden. The only person doing the shooting was me. If you know what I mean.
Sorry, but saying apathetic acceptance of these events by saying "it just is" is what has the USA where it is with regard to gun crime. Just how many people have to die in what bizarre and unforgivable circumstance before it does matter ???
I have the greatest sympathy for the victim, but I still mainintain that it is primarily symptomatic of culture which believes that guns are a reasonable and logical solution to human conflict and social failings.
I have certainly been a smart arse teenageer in my time but it's hardly a crime worth the death penalty.
Don't step on the lawn of a man inflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Honestly, if a man cares that much about his lawn, he must be mentally ill. It would seem the teenager was unaware and provoked the man thinking nothing would happen. Unfortunately there are no mental hospitals in America that offer long-term care. Many of the prisons have had to make accommodations for the mentally ill. It's demonstrated to be a lot less effective than asylums. PBS Frontline did a show about it, and it doesn't matter how much the guards, threaten, beat, or isolate the mentally ill, they will still resist, especially when they are paranoid schizophrenic.
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Don't step on the lawn of a man inflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Honestly, if a man cares that much about his lawn, he must be mentally ill. It would seem the teenager was unaware and provoked the man thinking nothing would happen. Unfortunately there are no mental hospitals in America that offer long-term care. Many of the prisons have had to make accommodations for the mentally ill. It's demonstrated to be a lot less effective than asylums. PBS Frontline did a show about it, and it doesn't matter how much the guards, threaten, beat, or isolate the mentally ill, they will still resist, especially when they are paranoid schizophrenic.
when i was 15 i was bullying some poor kids for their dinner money
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
Life term for killing teen who walked on lawn
Ohio man said boy knew how he cared for his grass and provoked him
BATAVIA, Ohio - A man who fatally shot a teenage neighbor because he walked on the man's carefully tended lawn was sentenced to life in prison.
Charles Martin, 67, must serve 18 years before he can be considered for parole, Clermont County Common Pleas Judge William Walker ordered Wednesday, adding that he would urge that Martin never be considered for parole.
The man was convicted last month of murder in the March 2006 shotgun killing of 15-year-old Larry Mugrage Jr., a high school student.
Martin told the court he was sorry the shooting occurred but said the teen knew how much Martin cared for his lawn and provoked him.
"He stepped on it and he walked 40 feet through it," Martin said. "I cared about it. I cut it every five days."
Prosecutors alleged Martin had confronted the teen earlier in the day when he walked into Martin's yard on his way to a friend's house, then loaded his .410-gauge shotgun and waited more than three hours for him to return.
When the boy stepped on the lawn again, Martin fired at him twice, according to testimony. He then called police, telling a dispatcher: "I just killed a kid."
Martin was tried on aggravated murder but convicted of murder, a lesser count, because jurors because could not agree the killing was planned.
If the teenager knew the guy was extremely proud of his lawn why did the annoying little twat have to walk over it? Shooting him and killing him was extreme, should have just mowed his nuts.
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Damn.
Damn.
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Don't step on the lawn of a man inflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Honestly, if a man cares that much about his lawn, he must be mentally ill. It would seem the teenager was unaware and provoked the man thinking nothing would happen. Unfortunately there are no mental hospitals in America that offer long-term care. Many of the prisons have had to make accommodations for the mentally ill. It's demonstrated to be a lot less effective than asylums. PBS Frontline did a show about it, and it doesn't matter how much the guards, threaten, beat, or isolate the mentally ill, they will still resist, especially when they are paranoid schizophrenic.
The show is available online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/
I just hope that somehow, people learn from this kid's tragic death and the actions of the man that killed him, so that this never happens again.
Things like this. Death like this, should not happen.
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..with a pretty lawn, and a shotgun.
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when i was 15 i was bullying some poor kids for their dinner money
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Because the man was obviously a dick and it's fun to wind up dicks.
Tie a piece of string around the end of your nob and tie the other end of the string to the blade of an electric fan - or a lawnmower. Easy! :cool: