Actually this is in my town. In fact, the guy who found the kid has been in the news before. I'm not sure I even believe him, honestly.
It's really strange but the teenagers here seem to get in more weird trouble than other towns. It was here the drunken teen drove a stolen car into someone's living room. It was here the two teens drove their car down the public school halls. List goes on.
I blame the boy's parents. The kids here are allowed to drink and often times the parents are buying the booze for the kids. The whole idea of "well, they are safer here than outside." Hmm, well outside they wouldn't have been able to get a stocked liquor cabinet to help themselves to. We were lucky to split a six pack between the four of us when we were sixteen. We didn't have parents buying us a 2-4 since we are in their basement. (the kids can get out of the basement).
I worry that these are my kid's friends. I worry that some sixteen year old is being egged on to drink by someone's drunken idiot parents. Peer pressure is hard enough without parents doing it. (seen it with my own eyes). My kid drinks and is "supervised" by his buddies mom and dad. My kid was so drunk that he almost got his faced kicked in at a chaperoned party. Like wtf? There is never booze in my house and I have always told him I don't want him drinking and he really learned alot at that party, so he's ok now.
But think of it this way. Suppose this kid wasn't used to drinking (he's only SIXTEEN), suppose he was totally wasted because of the booze that was given to him by some dickhead parent, suppose he honestly got the houses mixed up because he isn't used to the booze. We're going to kill him, kill him dead, no I'm sorry from the kid, no nothing, just dead and bleeding on your floor. He's crouched down behind a washing machine probably already so frigged up he doesn't know what he's doing and you're going to come along and blow his brains out.
Tell me, what threat is someone crouched down, wimpering and shaking behind a washing machine?
Plus maybe the guy is being charged because every time the police turn around he's carrying someone bleeding and half dead around? Feel free to lock your goddamned doors.
Life has very few what if scenerios, unless we lived in hindsight.
What threat? You are in my cave, I do not know you, I do not know your intentions, you therefor are a target for my righteous retrobution.
The original reports stated he jumped up when he saw Shaxon, that in its self would have received a first strike, by me, that would have made Bush's "Shock and Awe" look like a small towns fire works. No to mention, he didn't just walk in an open door, he broke in through a window.
The term "A mans home is his castle" is a slowly dying ideal in this country, sadly and thanx to the Liberal hug a thug mentality. But in my case, as was his, this is not only MY cave, but my FAMILIES cave, this is our place of safety, our refuge. To breach that is to sign your own death warrant. I could careless about your blood alcohol level, your friends pear pressure, whether or not you had a ruff life or day, or if you just screwed up. Let it be known, people have paid dearly throughout time, for their mistakes. Teach kids that, they may live longer and pay closer attention, to whos house they break into.
We don't lock our doors here, because there are more people here, that think like Shaxon and myself and the kids know it.
