Man sentenced to life term for killing teen who walked on lawn

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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    catefrances wrote:
    did you just make that up? cause it sure sounds like it.

    you know there's these neighbourhood kids who despite my protestations keep climbing a tree situated on my property. if i had access to firearms it would be tempting to shoot them off the branches like ducks in a row. but because my goverment grew some balls and toughened up the gun laws i now find myself negotiating with 9 year olds. you think iran and korea are hard to tlak to? think again. :D

    ha ha lucy, he called you dear. i think he thinks you wear a skirt. LMAO!! :D:D

    One of the reasons I leave my gender a bit of a mystery is cos it absolutely mkaes me laugh when guys patronise me like I am a female. It is a complete hoot, and proves that guys do it.

    I love being called dearie, it makes me fell all warm and fuzzy and protected.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    lucylespian wrote:
    One of the reasons I leave my gender a bit of a mystery is cos it absolutely mkaes me laugh when guys patronise me like I am a female. It is a complete hoot, and proves that guys do it.

    I love being called dearie, it makes me fell all warm and fuzzy and protected.

    i'd protect you little darlin' but i know you don't need it. :D:D
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm usually joking, too.

    Hell if I know what the hell is going on in Austria.

    well it'd certainly help if you actually knew which country you were trying to defame. :D:D
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    catefrances wrote:
    i'd protect you little darlin' but i know you don't need it. :D:D

    I'd say you are making me giggle, but I have been chatised by Kat already this week for going off topic, so I better stop.

    BAck on topic, I nthink we all fantasise about frocibly resolving our conflicts by shooting 9 yr olds off tree branches at some time or another, but being forced into alternative behaviour is probably better in teh long run.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I remember when I was 15 I was at a street party and I stepped on some fellas lawn and he got up and grabbed me by the throat and slammed me up against a lamp-post in full view of everyone. He he! What a tough guy. I wonder if he ever found out who it was that bricked his windows almost every week for the next 6 months?
  • Rushlimbo
    Rushlimbo Posts: 832
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I remember when I was 15 I was at a street party and I stepped on some fellas lawn and got up and grabbed me by the throat and slammed me up against a lamp-post in full view of everyone. He he! What a tough guy. I wonder if he ever found out who it was that bricked his windows almost every week for the next 6 months?

    That was YOU ?!! You little bastard (shaking my fist) !!!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I remember when I was 15 I was at a street party and I stepped on some fellas lawn and got up and grabbed me by the throat and slammed me up against a lamp-post in full view of everyone. He he! What a tough guy. I wonder if he ever found out who it was that bricked his windows almost every week for the next 6 months?

    oh snap! i remember being 15 and being grabbed by the throat. but i was slammed up against a wall, not a lamp post and it wasnt for stepping on some bloke's lawn, i can tell you. :;D ;):p
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I remember when I was 15 I was at a street party and I stepped on some fellas lawn and got up and grabbed me by the throat and slammed me up against a lamp-post in full view of everyone. He he! What a tough guy. I wonder if he ever found out who it was that bricked his windows almost every week for the next 6 months?

    You did? I'd have bought a fucking gun.


    ;)
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I remember...being 15,
    and

    finally getting laid.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    gue_barium wrote:
    I remember...being 15,
    and

    finally getting laid.


    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.


    Anyway, topic integrity, and all that.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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.


    Anyway, topic integrity, and all that.

    Damn.






    Damn.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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.


    Anyway, topic integrity, and all that.

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    lucylespian wrote:
    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.

    The show is available online
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    How on earth did this become about MILFs? :confused:

    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.
    NOPE!!!

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    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/

    There's no-one more dangerous than a remote psychoanalyst.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    There's no-one more dangerous than a remote psychoanalyst.

    ..with a pretty lawn, and a shotgun.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    he must have been in some form of Lawn Militia..

    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.
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Throw in a rocking chair and you got some good ole stereotyping there. :D
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    keep off the grass.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    SuzannePjam wrote:
    wow, I'm just speechless. What a sick fuck.

    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.
    Jesus.

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