Teen Shot While 'Ding Dong Ditching' In Neighborhood

[n2doc]

PRYOR, Oklahoma - A 14-year-old Pryor boy is out of surgery after being shot several times by his neighbor who has not been arrested.

Police said the teen and two of his friends were ringing doorbells and running off early New Year's Day when the homeowner came out to his front yard and started firing.

The case has been handed over to the district attorney who is looking into whether the shooting was justified.

The call went out as a home invasion, but when police got to the scene they quickly heard a different story. Police said the three boys did not try to break into the home.

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http://www.newson6.com/story/30866853/police-pryor-teen-shot-while-pulling-prank-in-neighborhood

[exboyfil]

1. He was not immediately arrested

What is wrong with this country?

Read the posts. A significant number are even justifying the shooting based on trespassing.

[RKP5637]

2. There is so much wrong with today's US. IMO it's become hostile nationally and

internationally. I can't imagine this place if an all republican win in 2016. There will be far better places in the world to be. Nations go through peaks and valleys. IMO we are descending rapidly into a deep valley. And common sense no longer rules.

[Warpy]

8. Cops are a skeered to arrest any white guy with a gun, I guess.

The local NRA might be mean to them or something.

The jackass who thought the answer to a bratty kid was to shoot him in the back as he was running away should have been taken into custody on the spot and held without bail, all his guns confiscated since he can't be trusted to own them. There's also the little matter of discharging a firearm in a crowded residential district, we're not talking farm country here, it's a suburb.

I'm beginning to realize there are no good guys with guns, just a bunch of potentially bad guys who can't manage to cope with life without owning deadly weapons, at least in cities and suburbs.

Whatever happened to asking your neighbors where the kids lived and then talking to their parents so they'd be grounded for a month?

Oh, right, it's just easier to use that gun that's been burning a hole in your pocket since you bought the damned thing.

[Downwinder]

9. Ringing a doorbell is trespassing?

[exboyfil]

11. A guy was charged for shooting a salesman

in a posted yard.

http://www.koco.com/news/police-salesperson-shot-on-oklahoma-city-property-with-no-trespassing-signs/25776876

http://www.courtrecordslisting.com/courtrecord4.php?id=310224


Of course ringing a door bell can get you killed as well. In Louisiana the guy walked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori

This guy in Georgia got a fine

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-latino-22-year-old-pulling-wrong-driveway-gets-500


We are simply insane as a country.

[exboyfil]

3. This reminds me of something that happened with my wife (who I was just dating at the time)

I was a new college graduate, and she was a sophomore. Her friend lived at a motel run by her father. They got it in their head to go behind the hotel and mess around (look in rooms - I don't know what). I was trying to stop them when a very angry man came out of the room holding a very large pipe wrench. I am very lucky that I talked him down. He could have killed me. All three of us were adults, and a stupid decision almost led to a battery with possible serious or deadly injuries. My wife and her friends were adults, but they were also young and stupid.

If the guy had a gun, I could just as easily been dead.

[Person 2713]

5. You were a young adult and could have been looking in the windows to steal what you saw in a rooms

Not really the same as ding dong ditch by 14 yr old

[exboyfil]

6. I did not say it was the same

I admit my associates (and I by association) were far more invasive of privacy than this young man and should have known better. I only shared the story as it reminded of something that happened to me. I did not do it myself, and I would never do it, and it is not typical behavior of my wife or her friend.

I share it to emphasize that resorting to violence except in the immediate evidence of a threat is always wrong. I would go further, and unless you are someone is in danger of immediate physical harm, it is never justified to use force (let alone lethal force) on someone trespassing on your property. The law in most states does allow you to use force to prevent theft of property, and it is a felony for a thief to resist that force. I still would never do it. I own absolutely nothing (except my dogs) that I would be willing to defend with force.

[Person 2713]

4. 14 ringing doorbells prank justifies shooting . Now that is freedom

[mountain grammy]

7. Because someone with a loaded gun

has a strong desire to shoot someone with it. This will continue on and on. It will happen to someone you know or a relative. No one is immune. Guns are made to kill and kill they will.

[LiberalArkie]

10. He more than likely bought it to protect himself due to the pending "Race Wars".

And they are pissed that it never happened. They have tried so hard to start it but "them uppity "nig234" never did have the courage to come out and fight like men".

I hear the "race war" crap all the damn time.

[Runningdawg]

12. Pryor OK

where the entire school band only plays one instrument - banjos.