Swedish homeowner faces fine for taking revenge on egg-hurling kids

[Praxius]

Swedish homeowner faces fine for taking revenge on egg-hurling kids | News.com.au

SOME might say they got eggs-actly what they deserved.

But a Swedish man faces a hefty fine for chasing after delinquents who hurled eggs at his house and smearing one of the makeshift missiles in a boy's face, Expressen reported today.

The exasperated Gothenburg resident took matters into his own hands after the mob targeted his home during a trick-or-treat prank last Halloween. He cornered one culprit, took the remaining eggs out of his backpack, then smeared one in the boy's face.

Justice served sunny side up, many would say - but it seems Swedish authorities do not agree.

The 35-year-old resident, whom the paper did not name, was charged with harassment and this week ordered to pay a fine of 11,400 kronor ($1800).

"To make it worse the youth was allergic to eggs and got very red eyes," prosecutor Per Lind told Expressen.

The official admitted, however, that some residents might feel a twinge of sympathy for the homeowner, since trick-or-treating pranks have been on the rise in Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, in recent years.

"Many readers will probably feel sympathy with the perpetrator in this case," said Lind.

If the idiot was allergic to eggs, maybe he shouldn't have been screwing around with them.

And they charged him with harassment...... what did these punks get?

They created the situation and now it seems the courts deemed they're the victims of the situation they created, and ended up charging the real victim.

Interesting.

 

[taxslave]

Typical of socialist nanny state mentality. No one is responsible for their own actions. The homeowners real problem was that he took the law into his own hands, justice was delivered appropriately and in a timely manner. His crime was in taking away a union police officers job and all the social workers that the court would have forced the kid to see.

 

[shadowshiv]

Swedish homeowner faces fine for taking revenge on egg-hurling kids | News.com.au



If the idiot was allergic to eggs, maybe he shouldn't have been screwing around with them.

And they charged him with harassment...... what did these punks get?

They created the situation and now it seems the courts deemed they're the victims of the situation they created, and ended up charging the real victim.

Interesting.

Instead of smearing the eggs on him, perhaps he should have been allowed to hurl the eggs onto the kids(they could still wear goggles to protect their eyes of course). And I agree with Praxius. If you are allergic to eggs, why the hell would you be stupid enough to even carry them around? Eggs are quite fragile and they could have easily have broken in his hands.

I think too many of the wrong people are given the "victim" label nowadays.

 

[SLM]

These kids should have been charged and if the court was really looking to send a complete message, they would have been.

However on the other hand, we are still talking about a 35 year old grown man who got into a physical altercation with a child. There were other options he had when he caught up with the kid-he could have gotten the kid's name and confronted the parents, he could have reported the vandalism and named the perpetrators, hell he could have even dragged the kid by the scruff of the neck down to the police station himself.

The courts were wrong not to charge the kids in this case with vandalism or nuisance, but I don't necessarily disagree with charging and fining the man in this situation.

 

[Praxius]

These kids should have been charged and if the court was really looking to send a complete message, they would have been.

However on the other hand, we are still talking about a 35 year old grown man who got into a physical altercation with a child. There were other options he had when he caught up with the kid

Indeed, he could have dragged him over his knee and smacked the tar out of his arse.

It seems adults are not allowed to engage in any type of confrontation or situation that involves children these days, even when the children are stabbing you in the chest, setting your house on fire or tossing your dog off a bridge in a burlap sack...... keep in mind that these punk's parents are "Grown" adults too, yet does your above view apply to them as well?

Children are supposed to learn from those who've come before them..... and if we're supposed to leave them completely alone to do as they please without consequence, guess how they're going to turn out.

-he could have gotten the kid's name and confronted the parents,

How would you propose he get a "Real" answer with a "Real" name?

he could have reported the vandalism and named the perpetrators,

If he actually got their names in the first place.....

hell he could have even dragged the kid by the scruff of the neck down to the police station himself.

That could be considered forcible confinement or even some level of assault equal to what he already did.

With all these ideas of what he should or could have done, after the fact, I award you the following:

The courts were wrong not to charge the kids in this case with vandalism or nuisance, but I don't necessarily disagree with charging and fining the man in this situation.

It's the 20-10's..... Eye for an Eye is in this season..... bureaucratic justice is soooo 90's. *flicks wrist*

 

[petros]

Kid's like those will just grow up to soap fountains.

 

[SLM]

Indeed, he could have dragged him over his knee and smacked the tar out of his arse.

It seems adults are not allowed to engage in any type of confrontation or situation that involves children these days, even when the children are stabbing you in the chest, setting your house on fire or tossing your dog off a bridge in a burlap sack...... keep in mind that these punk's parents are "Grown" adults too, yet does your above view apply to them as well?

Children are supposed to learn from those who've come before them..... and if we're supposed to leave them completely alone to do as they please without consequence, guess how they're going to turn out.



How would you propose he get a "Real" answer with a "Real" name?



If he actually got their names in the first place.....



That could be considered forcible confinement or even some level of assault equal to what he already did.

With all these ideas of what he should or could have done, after the fact, I award you the following:

It's the 20-10's..... Eye for an Eye is in this season..... bureaucratic justice is soooo 90's. *flicks wrist*

Eye for an eye might be "in" but that doesn't make it right.

Eye for an eye might be "in" but that doesn't make it right.

And how does smashing an egg into a kid's face teach him anything?

I never said the kid's should be allowed to do whatever in the hell they please, but an adult is supposed to be an adult.

 

[Corduroy]

Harassment? Sounds like assault to me.

 

[petros]

They are lucky it was in Europe. Here the cops would have tazered both of them. Twice.

 

[Unforgiven]

Turn on the camera, call the police.

The little buggers sure deserve something for egging the guys place.

The guy prolly didn't even give them candy like he should have.

He deserves something for making them eat eggs.

What a sordid little town this must be in Sweden.

 

[taxslave]

kids have to be taught that there are consequences to their actions. Even the stupidest kid must know that it is wrong to throw eggs at someones house. The punishment was appropriate. The kid got off lucky.

 

[Praxius]

Eye for an eye might be "in" but that doesn't make it right.

Right & Wrong are subjective.... you may think what he did wasn't right..... and I don't think what they did to him and these kids not getting any form of punishment for their actions was right.

And how does smashing an egg into a kid's face teach him anything?

It teaches someone that they can't just do whatever they damn well please and expect nobody to do anything about it..... that there are consequences, sometimes unforeseen, for every action.

If you can't or are unwilling to accept the possible consequences for your actions, then don't perform the action...... it's pretty simple.

I never said the kid's should be allowed to do whatever in the hell they please, but an adult is supposed to be an adult.

Indeed..... he was an adult.... if he was a child, he would have probably got his friends and go egg their houses.

Ever had your house egged before?

I remember my high school being egged and because some of the eggs hit spots that couldn't be easily cleaned, they began to rot and that area of the school smelled for months.

I'd be pissed if that happened to my own home. So what do you do?

Call the police and tell them someone egged your house?

Ok, so who did it?

Don't know??

Well then that's as far as it goes. If you do know who it was, you then have to prove it and even if you do prove it, they're usually a minor and won't get anything worse then a stern talking to by their parents and chances are, they'll either do it again or do something worse because you "Ratted" them out.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Anyone hear just how "kid-like" the "Kid" that was caught was? Are we talking a
eight year old....or an eighteen year old? That will have a huge bias on an opinion
for me in this situation.

 

[SLM]

Right & Wrong are subjective.... you may think what he did wasn't right..... and I don't think what they did to him and these kids not getting any form of punishment for their actions was right.



It teaches someone that they can't just do whatever they damn well please and expect nobody to do anything about it..... that there are consequences, sometimes unforeseen, for every action.

If you can't or are unwilling to accept the possible consequences for your actions, then don't perform the action...... it's pretty simple.



Indeed..... he was an adult.... if he was a child, he would have probably got his friends and go egg their houses.

Ever had your house egged before?

I remember my high school being egged and because some of the eggs hit spots that couldn't be easily cleaned, they began to rot and that area of the school smelled for months.

I'd be pissed if that happened to my own home. So what do you do?

Call the police and tell them someone egged your house?

Ok, so who did it?

Don't know??

Well then that's as far as it goes. If you do know who it was, you then have to prove it and even if you do prove it, they're usually a minor and won't get anything worse then a stern talking to by their parents and chances are, they'll either do it again or do something worse because you "Ratted" them out.

You're right, actions do have consequences and kids more often than not do not comprehend this fully. I, personally, fully expect that an adult should. If you park in a no parking zone and get a ticket, then suck it up and pay the fine. If you lay hands on another human being, which in the vast majority of cases would be classified as assault, then you have to pay the consequences. This guy is a victim of vandalism, but he is also a perpetrator of assault.

The fact that the kid's are not being charged with vandalism is on the courts/legal system and, in my opinion, they are wrong in that. Dead wrong because now they (the kids) are not learning that they have to accept consequences for their actions. Will this particular kid learn that from what the guy did? Maybe. Or maybe he'll just learn that might makes right.

As far as right and wrong being subjective, I'm not so sure that it really is. Or maybe it is, but it shouldn't be, in my opinion. In my opinion, you make the assertion of what is right and wrong first, then apply that standard to different situations. But just because what these kids did was wrong does not make what the guy did right. Two wrongs do not make a right, never have, and never will in my opinion.

 

[cranky]

if this was just a case of eggs broken on a kids face, then I would be in favor of the authorities looking the other way.

However, a worse case scenario happened, and the kid ended up being injured, so now this a case of assault that can not and should not be ignored.

 

[petros]

if this was just a case of eggs broken on a kids face, then I would be in favor of the authorities looking the other way.

However, a worse case scenario happened, and the kid ended up being injured, so now this a case of assault that can not and should not be ignored.

"To make it worse the youth was allergic to eggs and got very red eyes,"


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