Boy throws rocks at car and gets shot by crossbow - Page 20

On August 31 2011 15:16 Fission wrote:


Rationalize what? The fact that I find it funny? I don't need to rationalize that - I simply find it so.

On August 31 2011 15:16 TwoToneTerran wrote:


The problem is the people in this thread -- and there are plenty -- going "The kid deserved what he got!" and applauding the man's decision to attempt to murder a child. Stop trying to rationalize it. Laughing at a guy using a crossbow for anything because you're disconnected from the situation is okay. Rooting for this kind of thing to happen is not.

PS: he wasn't travelling at highway speed, read the article.

On August 31 2011 15:18 iCanada wrote:
At first, I laughed really hard... the story is just so absurd. Then I felt like a horrible person, because I just laughed at two incidents that could kill people.

Then I read that no one was injured, and felt better about myself.

On August 31 2011 15:16 Mr. Wiggles wrote:
How does a crossbow change the morality of siding with the shooter? What if he had a sword? A machete? A switchblade? A pistol? What if he had gotten out of his car and strangled the child with a rubber chicken?

There were plenty of people in this thread saying things like "The kid got what was coming to him", or that he "deserved" it. The absurdity of the weapon, or humour that you find therein, doesn't change the fact that the shooter assaulted a minor with a deadly weapon. Siding with the shooter has nothing to do with what weapon he used, as he still meant to cause grievous harm and possibly death to the child.

There were plenty of people laughing that the kid was injured, and arguing that it was right and commendable that he was injured, and that the shooter should be lauded for his efforts. His choice of weapon doesn't change his actions, and doesn't change what people represent when they side with the shooter and commend him.

(I'm also not commenting on the people who find the situation absurd, or funny. I don't really care about them. I'm talking about the people I was arguing with, who in fact did applaud the efforts of the shooter, whose actions remain the same, regardless of weapon)

On August 31 2011 15:17 TwoToneTerran wrote:


Going to murder someone with silly string, I hope I have everyone in this thread's support.

On August 31 2011 15:19 overt wrote:


Have a crossbow bolt stuck into your abdomen after it was projected from a moving vehicle is most definitely an injury. Probably a very painful one too.

On August 31 2011 15:17 HereticSaint wrote:
The response from "people like you" would be exactly the same if he went and beat the shit out of the kid. You're wrong and yes, if there was a kid who was constantly throwing rocks at my car and the parents weren't making serious progress to stop it and paying for any and all repairs to my car including potential time lost from work and having to deal with that bullshit I would beat the snot out of the kid.

Also, a child with a gun is still a person with a gun just like a child with a rock is still a person with a rock. Maybe he shouldn't be using weapons, or would it have been better if I started chucking rocks back at his head?

On August 31 2011 15:04 towers wrote:
Vigilante justice is wrong, crossbow or rock.

And honestly if I had to choose between the two wrongs, I would rather be neighbors to a kid who throws rocks at cars then be a neighbor to an adult who shoots kids with a crossbow.

Get some perspective people.

On August 31 2011 15:22 Slaughter wrote:
Crazy story, I mean its just weird as hell....A crossbow? Really who has that just sitting in their car. I guess its the same kind of crazy person who would shoot at a freaking kid for throwing rocks. Damn people are crazy. I know the kid was being an asshole for doing that (plus it could cause a crash) but seriously? Way to crazily overreact. I'm just thinking "why?" Why throw rocks at cars (seriously even as a kid I knew that doing that was both assholish and dangerous) and Why would it be worth possibly killing someone over? The kid deserved a scolding/punishment from his parents not a crossbow bolt to his chest. WTF is with people I know we like to think we are more "civilized" then people of the past but we really aren't. We just have greater technology but human behavior will always comedown to careless disregard for others (when you look at humanity as a whole).

On August 31 2011 15:19 RajaF wrote:


Well, if you're gonna talk about intent, what motive did the kid have to throw rocks at moving cars? Did he not know what he was doing? Or maybe the kid was trying to cause grievous harm and possibly death to his victims.

On August 31 2011 14:54 Mr. Wiggles wrote:
In general, people aren't trying to absolve the child from any sort of guilt. He is an idiot for throwing rocks at a car, and would hopefully get charged for doing something illegal. Stating that the guy who shot the child with a crossbow is despicable and grossly over-reacted is not the same as saying that the child shouldn't have gotten in trouble for throwing rocks.

On August 31 2011 15:28 Bobgrimly wrote:
Its funny. If you do something wrong and suffer a consequence it is funny to other people. Doesn't matter how severe the consequence, other people like to see wrong doers suffer.

If the kid hadn't been doing anything wrong no one would be laughing. Moral of the story. Do wrong things and when it backfires people will laugh.