Teen doorbell pranks gets homeowner arrested

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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Albeit a harmless, stupid act by kids, the fact that the kids got no reprimanding and somehow the old guy did is just ass backwards. Our society has really lost it's mind when it comes to children and parenting.




    The kids were having fun, its a prank, lighten up. I did it when i was that age.




    Sometimes kids just have fun and sometimes old people are scared republicans and think they are in serious danger....nobody needs to be charged. But maaybe the homeowner went a bit far tackling and holding the kid till the cops came...might have been a bit much don't you think?


    Why should the authorities been involved at all?
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Commy wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Albeit a harmless, stupid act by kids, the fact that the kids got no reprimanding and somehow the old guy did is just ass backwards. Our society has really lost it's mind when it comes to children and parenting.




    The kids were having fun, its a prank, lighten up. I did it when i was that age.




    Sometimes kids just have fun and sometimes old people are scared republicans and think they are in serious danger....nobody needs to be charged. But maaybe the homeowner went a bit far tackling and holding the kid till the cops came...might have been a bit much don't you think?
    Why should the authorities been involved at all?
    ...
    Also, the adult is a Pharmaceutical executive. I am guessing he is in a position at his company where he has to make strategic and tactical business decisions as his job as a company executive... yet, he decides to go after some punk kid that rang his doorbell and ran?
    And I am hoping the cops in his city have nothing more critical to deal with than enforcing the Ding-dong Dash statute. Because it would be a shame to tie up the resources of a night patrol officer if there are more critical crimes to deal with... possibly, getting a drunk driver off of the street.
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    I'm not saying the authorities need to be involved for a "punishment" so to speak, but that's how people learn... by lessons. And albeit it's just kids doing something stupid, they deserved what they got and I assure you they won't do it again. Also, since when is it ok for kids to pester others (even as a joke), and everyone has to tolerate it? Several talk about the responsibility or lack their of, of this old guy chasing them down, etc, how bout the kids parents or even the kids?? Seems like a lame way to pass off blame because the situation was escalated when its unnecessary to begin with. Kids being kids doesn't make it ok or solely because no one was in serious danger, doesn't make it acceptable or mean it should be tolerated. And I'm sure the old guy just called the cops to scare the kids, not to actually expect them to be arrested or something similar.
    Commy wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Albeit a harmless, stupid act by kids, the fact that the kids got no reprimanding and somehow the old guy did is just ass backwards. Our society has really lost it's mind when it comes to children and parenting.

    The kids were having fun, its a prank, lighten up. I did it when i was that age.

    Sometimes kids just have fun and sometimes old people are scared republicans and think they are in serious danger....nobody needs to be charged. But maaybe the homeowner went a bit far tackling and holding the kid till the cops came...might have been a bit much don't you think?

    Why should the authorities been involved at all?
    CONservative governMENt

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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    All I know is that the 14 year old he caught must be the last kid picked in gym class... A barefoot middle aged man should not be able to catch a running 14 year old.
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    pandora wrote:
    murphyJammer wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    This is what we teaching are kids. They can do things like this, get away with it and somebody else will get in trouble. And people wounder why there are so many problems with the way kids are turning out these days.


    Are you serious? This is why our society has problems? Are you a ninety year old crank?
    I think you missed the OP's point. It was a disrespectful thing to do, it invaded someone's privacy and trespassed on their property and into their peaceful domain. Silly prank yes, but meant to piss someone off, to disturb them and annoy. If ones family isn't going to teach them how to respect others then the law should. The fact that the boys had absolutely no repercussions from their acts is not teaching them what they did was wrong. You don't have to be old or a crank to see these kids should be taught some manners and to respect others property and privacy.
    Yeah, maybe I wasn't clear about my POV, sorry. I'm looking at how the cops dealt with the situation. They charge the home owner but let the kid off scott-free. The kid wasn't exactly innocent but the law is teaching him that he can continue to piss off on his neighbors and get away with it. That kind of attitude can lead to more issues as he grows older thinking he can do whatever he wants - let alone disrespecting people - and get away with it, too.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I just want to mention that this happened locally. And so we don't just judge the kid as an innocent kid and the homeowner as a grumpy old man (although he could be), here's more info to the story.

    http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 584905.php
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    blackredyellow wrote:
    All I know is that the 14 year old he caught must be the last kid picked in gym class... A barefoot middle aged man should not be able to catch a running 14 year old.
    ...
    That's what I was thinking... either he is a 14 year old Jonah Hill... or when he was being chased by an adult, he did what a lot of 14 year old kids would do... freeze up.
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    After reading this further - the kids should be punished in some fashion and the guy let off with nothing done to him. Imagine you're home with your family and this happened?? With a wife and 2 kids under 6 you wouldn't have done something similar? Completely understandable and ok in my book.
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I just want to mention that this happened locally. And so we don't just judge the kid as an innocent kid and the homeowner as a grumpy old man (although he could be), here's more info to the story.

    http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 584905.php
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    FiveB247x wrote:
    After reading this further - the kids should be punished in some fashion and the guy let off with nothing done to him. Imagine you're home with your family and this happened?? With a wife and 2 kids under 6 you wouldn't have done something similar? Completely understandable and ok in my book.
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I just want to mention that this happened locally. And so we don't just judge the kid as an innocent kid and the homeowner as a grumpy old man (although he could be), here's more info to the story.

    http://www.timesunion.com/local/article ... 584905.php
    ...
    Agree. Information is a powerful pursuader.
    Take the kid to Civil Court and work out a deal where he (and his punk friends) pick up trash for a month or something along those lines.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,975
    Cosmo wrote:
    Commy wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Albeit a harmless, stupid act by kids, the fact that the kids got no reprimanding and somehow the old guy did is just ass backwards. Our society has really lost it's mind when it comes to children and parenting.




    The kids were having fun, its a prank, lighten up. I did it when i was that age.




    Sometimes kids just have fun and sometimes old people are scared republicans and think they are in serious danger....nobody needs to be charged. But maaybe the homeowner went a bit far tackling and holding the kid till the cops came...might have been a bit much don't you think?
    Why should the authorities been involved at all?
    ...
    Also, the adult is a Pharmaceutical executive. I am guessing he is in a position at his company where he has to make strategic and tactical business decisions as his job as a company executive... yet, he decides to go after some punk kid that rang his doorbell and ran?
    And I am hoping the cops in his city have nothing more critical to deal with than enforcing the Ding-dong Dash statute. Because it would be a shame to tie up the resources of a night patrol officer if there are more critical crimes to deal with... possibly, getting a drunk driver off of the street.


    So, now we are blaming a waste of resources on a guy that had kids ring his doorbell and run....hmmm...root cause analysis...what could have been done to keep him from calling?

    Oh that's right, don't ring the doorbell. Ding and ditch is a gateway crime.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    cincybearcat wrote:
    So, now we are blaming a waste of resources on a guy that had kids ring his doorbell and run....hmmm...root cause analysis...what could have been done to keep him from calling?

    Oh that's right, don't ring the doorbell. Ding and ditch is a gateway crime.
    ...
    Are you the scary old man on the block that all the kids are afraid of because they think you eat children's brains?
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,997
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??
    ...
    That's how Usama Bin Laden got his start.
    ...
    Him and John Gotti.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,975
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??


    Yep. Then comes pooping on your neighbors yard. Pretty soon, they'll be shooting up drugs and other gang members.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,997
    cincybearcat wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??


    Yep. Then comes pooping on your neighbors yard. Pretty soon, they'll be shooting up drugs and other gang members.
    and this is all based on what??? :?

    i am sure there are hundreds of thousands of people who have harmlessly knocked on a door and ran away at some point in their lifetime and have not graduated to pooping in the neighbor's yard, shooting up drugs, or anything or anyone else...

    are you joking or are you being serious?
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    cincybearcat wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??


    Yep. Then comes pooping on your neighbors yard. Pretty soon, they'll be shooting up drugs and other gang members.
    ...
    I can kinda picture Bin Laden, pooping on someone's lawn... Gotti and Jeffrey Dahmer... not so much.
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  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    cincybearcat wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ding and ditch is a gateway crime???

    gateway to what.....prank calls with heavy breathing??


    Yep. Then comes pooping on your neighbors yard. Pretty soon, they'll be shooting up drugs and other gang members.

    Dman cincy, sounds like there’s a meth lap near someone’s neighborhood. Hell, you gotta love those bikers, even when they crap on your lawn.
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,975
    Man....gateway crime....of course I was kidding. :)

    Still, there is no way the homeowner should be charged with a crime and at the very least the kid should have been taken to his parents house in the cop car.

    Look I did the same things when I was a kid...I just knew that if I got caught, I'd get in trouble. We are babying kids these and then end up being entitled adult babies.
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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Seems like the teenager's prank was pretty harmless but if you decide to mess with someone and piss him off don't be surprised if they retaliate. As kids we used to do daft things like this and accepted it if some irate guy gave us a smack. Today we'd be encouraged to sue him.

    Surely the police and courts have better things to do than deal with a guy running around in his jockeys.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,997
    i would be scared if it was this guy....

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