Ohio Teen Shot Dead After Egging Cars

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Ohio Teen Shot Dead After Egging Cars

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414545,00.html
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus teenager who was throwing eggs at cars as part of a late-night prank was fatally shot, police said Sunday.

Police said 16-year-old Garrett Burton was with at least one other teenage boy Saturday in the backyard of a home when someone shot him in the head just before 3 a.m. Police have no suspects.

The band at Westland High School, where Burton was a student, played the school's alma mater in memory of him at Saturday night's football game.

Another Columbus teen was killed in an egging incident in December 2006. Fourteen-year-old Danny Crawford was shot after a group of boys he was with threw an egg at a car. No one has been charged in that case.
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While I obviously don't approve of shooting those who are egging cars, or any other form of petty vandalism, I also can't muster up a whole lot of sympathy. Maybe I'm just a cold, uncaring, stonehearted sonofabitch.

Oh well. I've lived this long with a heart of stone; can't see it changing anytime soon.
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Aegis wrote:Maybe I'm just a cold, uncaring, stonehearted sonofabitch.
Jobs already filled buddy. :mrgreen:


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Hmm... maybe TX isn't the only state where "criminal mischief at night" justifies lethal force... Although, given the circumstance, I suspect it's more a matter of trashing some 'banger's car...
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HTRN wrote:
Aegis wrote:Maybe I'm just a cold, uncaring, stonehearted sonofabitch.
Jobs already filled buddy. :mrgreen:


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I think there are multiple instances available... as long as you two are in different states. I got the gig in Texas. 8-)
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The moral of the story is: "Don't throw eggs at cars, you will live longer."
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Aglifter wrote:Hmm... maybe TX isn't the only state where "criminal mischief at night" justifies lethal force... Although, given the circumstance, I suspect it's more a matter of trashing some 'banger's car...
My brother was charged as a juvenile with throwing a deadly missile at a vehicle for throwing a small piece of fruit at a school bus...

an egg could be just as deadly to someone that was driving down a road, so lethal force could be justified.
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We did that when I was growing up in the 70's, along with using water fire extinguishers, water-balloons (with and without launchers) - the whole Animal House bit. Back then if you got caught, you got the shit smacked outta' you, or had to do community service, besides clean up your mess (possibly pay for any damages and/or work it off), AND APOLOGIZE too.

It's MUCH different today. Things have gotten WAYYYY too far out of control. You don't know if someone just hit your car with an egg or a 2-pound rock that could kill. Nobody was dropping bowling balls (or cinder blocks) off overpasses onto traffic passing below. There was no thing such as drive-by shootings (except the mob doing it in movies), and everyone was genuinely sad if someone even got hurt when monkeying around. Although people pulled pranks and were mischievous, there was always respect for people's lives. My brother and I had to clean eggs off my parent's cars and our house more than a couple of times from people getting us payback.

Now-a-days there's little respect for human life. It's always "be hard", "be mean, go gangsta'" "Don't be dissin' me or I'll cap yo' ass!". Reading the article, that what it sounded like, someone walked up and shot him in the head.

It's a whole different world now, and if I was a kid now, there's no way I'd be doing the crap I used to pull.
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A big part of it is that the old, at least in BFE, TX, cop saying of "Boys, GO HOME NOW OR I WILL TELL YOUR FATHER WHAT YOU WERE DOING!" doesn't have quite the same effect...

It also helps when everyone in town knows exactly how to reach your parents, at just about any hour...
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