Law enforcement at its best

Posted by: bonzi

Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 13:22

Do you find something wrong with this:

An 8-year old Californian pelters an 11-year old with water baloons, she returns with a stone (cutting the boy's forehead slightly). Police intervenes with three patrol cars and a helicopter, but the girl "escapes jail time on an assault with a deadly weapon charge" when lawyers reached a deal that only adds six months of "informal probation" to "five days in juvenile hall and a month under house arrest"...

Well, when I was a kid, this would result in a bit of tongue-lashing and, perhaps, a week without ice-cream or something, provided, of course, that parents of any party did find out about the incident in the first place.

Source.
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 13:37

Good thing it didn't happen in Texas... She'd be on death row!
Posted by: Robotic

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 13:38

A shame that the police and courts must be applied where parenting is lacking.
If only a licence to breed were required! Seems they give the right to just about anybody these days.
Posted by: JeffS

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 13:46

Yes, for some reason my friends and I used to think that pelting each other with rocks was a good idea . . . I'm glad the police never found out about that- imagine my life of crime that they would have prevented.
Posted by: Dignan

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 14:00

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A shame that the police and courts must be applied where parenting is lacking.
If only a licence to breed were required! Seems they give the right to just about anybody these days.

I don't see a lack of parenting here. Kids do little stupid stuff like this all the time. The parents find out about it usually, and the kids get scolded.

I'm a bit confused, I'm wondering how this got escalated to that level. Did someone call the cops? What did they say over the phone that had three cars and a helicopter at the scene? I'm missing something here...
Posted by: andy

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 14:49

This sounds slightly less of an over reaction when you realise that the "stone" weighed 2 pound. I wonder how much damage a properly aimed rock of that weight to the head could do ?
Posted by: JBjorgen

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 16:01

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I wonder how much damage a properly aimed rock of that weight to the head could do ?


Fezzick (Andre the Giant) from the The Princess Bride somehow comes to mind.
Posted by: andy

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 17:08

Inconceivable
Posted by: pgrzelak

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 17:11

I wonder if the police should start arresting baseball pitchers that try to hit batters. Same thing - assault with a deadly weapon. Certainly more deadly than a rock thrown by a child...

I am starting to wonder if we are all just doomed...
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 17:13

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Inconceivable


You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Posted by: JeffS

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 17:22

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I am starting to wonder if we are all just doomed...


Well, at least the vendor is "superapologetic" . . .
Posted by: tonyc

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 17:23

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I am starting to wonder if we are all just doomed...




DOOOOMED!
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 19:15

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

You keep using that comma. I do not think it goes where you think it goes.
Posted by: webroach

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 19:18

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You keep using that comma. I do not think it goes where you think it goes.


<sniff> Atrocious grammar...I'd bet my life on it.

Posted by: Foz

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 21:00

ROFL, ouch

-- Gary F.
Posted by: JeffS

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 04/08/2005 21:14

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You keep using that comma. I do not think it goes where you think it goes.
Ah, that was refreshing to read . . . it's been far too long since I've seen anyone get Bitted- I've been missing it.
Posted by: jmwking

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 05/08/2005 10:28

What I get for grabbing the quote from a quote page without proofing. Mea culpa.

-jk
Posted by: canuckInOR

Re: Law enforcement at its best - 09/08/2005 03:35

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Yes, for some reason my friends and I used to think that pelting each other with rocks was a good idea . . .

Ban the Bible! All that talk of stoning people is an evil influence on children!