How pathetic are so many of our youth today?

[biggestal99]

@Eagle-Keeper

I don’t ever recall the game which involved damaging people’s property?

i will be the first to admit.

i did really stupid and dangerous stuff to people and things when i was a child.

i was an insane kid. lucky i wasnt killed or maimed.

and none of my victims suffered any permanent damage.

Allan

[Toll_Collector]

@SixFoot

I have no idea. It sounds pretty damn dangerous though, but I too am getting old. lol

It’s a challenge. Knock and run is not a challenge, it’s a prank. Kicking the front door of an armed citizen is a true challenge. But it’s a dumb challenge. All risk, no reward. It’s like saying bloody Mary in front of a mirror 3 times. The best case scenario is nothing happens. Which is the same as if you did nothing. Why do it in the first place? Any challenge that is all risk is a stupid challenge.

[floydefisher]

I want to hear all this when it’s your door getting kicked in by a kid, and you can’t even file a claim on your homeowners since the deductible covers it.

[Nemesis]

Rare instances, i suspect if someone is kicking on your door and you response is immediate response is to shoot, you would have a difficult time claiming self defense because you were in feaf of your life, now if the door started to splinter and cave in that I would say is different.

[Guvnah]

@FreeAndClear

Mailbox baseball ran into the 90s

I worked a college summer job (in the 70s) at an air systems plant. (They did all sorts of metal work for vents and such.)

The shop steward kept getting his mailbox run over by hit-and-run kids. So he had some of the guys make a mailbox out of quarter-inch steel, welded to a steel 4-inch pipe. He installed the pipe filled with concrete.

Within a week, a kid totaled his car on the new mailbox.

[FreeAndClear]

Yeah i have read and heard these stories before. Always my favorite when home owners get revenge

[Guvnah]

@DougBH

A kick at the door in the middle of the night can be mistaken for a dangerous home invasion and be reasonably met with a shotgun blast.

The latest fad is not just kicking the door. It’s “turn-around-and-give-a-mule-kick” that often breaks the door.

Damned straight, it can easily be mistaken for a violent break-in.

[SixFoot]

@Nemesis

i suspect if someone is kicking on your door and you response is immediate response is to shoot, you would have a difficult time claiming self defense because you were in feaf of your life

Not even a little difficult.

[gooddad409]

@SixFoot

@Nemesis

i suspect if someone is kicking on your door and you response is immediate response is to shoot, you would have a difficult time claiming self defense because you were in feaf of your life

Not even a little difficult.

Especially in TX and other red states.

[gooddad409]

@Guvnah

@FreeAndClear

Mailbox baseball ran into the 90s

I worked a college summer job (in the 70s) at an air systems plant. (They did all sorts of metal work for vents and such.)

The shop steward kept getting his mailbox run over by hit-and-run kids. So he had some of the guys make a mailbox out of quarter-inch steel, welded to a steel 4-inch pipe. He installed the pipe filled with concrete.

Within a week, a kid totaled his car on the new mailbox.

I have a sister who had a problem with some old man in that rural area running over mailboxes.

She sawed off a small cedar tree and put her mailbox on that.

Next time the guy tried to run over it the car stopped so sudden it threw him up on the steering wheel.

Made him mad he backed up and tried it again then was spinning his tire like crazy trying to topple it.

She went out on the front porch and was laughing at him.

[FreeAndClear]

I think the Tide pod challenge was much more stupid.

Along with the bleach challenge and the ivermectin challenge

[Nemesis]

Honest question - so a delivery driver could come to my door, kick the door several times as a way to let me know a package is there and I could shoot him through the door and claim i feared for my life and walk away free and clear?

Whats to stop me from just killing anyone at my front door and saying i feared for my life?

I thought the castle doctrine states tbe person must have forcibly entered your home or be in the process of entering your home forcibly. Does kicking it rise to that defintion ? I have no idea

[Guvnah]

@FreeAndClear

I think the Tide pod challenge was much more stupid.

Along with the bleach challenge and the ivermectin challenge

Harm to self, versus harm to others. I think that’s the point in this thread.

But yes, those are stupid too.

[Guvnah]

@Nemesis

Honest question - so a delivery driver could come to my door, kick the door several times as a way to let me know a package is there and I could shoot him through the door and claim i feared for my life and walk away free and clear?

This:

@Guvnah

The latest fad is not just kicking the door. It’s “turn-around-and-give-a-mule-kick” that often breaks the door.

If the delivery guy really kicked that hard, the company he’s delivering for would soon get sued by multiple customers.

[FreeAndClear]

I have never had anyone kick my door after a delivery. Is that like an Indiana thing? Lol

[biggestal99]

@Toll_Collector

It’s a challenge. Knock and run is not a challenge, it’s a prank. Kicking the front door of an armed citizen is a true challenge. But it’s a dumb challenge. All risk, no reward. It’s like saying bloody Mary in front of a mirror 3 times. The best case scenario is nothing happens. Which is the same as if you did nothing. Why do it in the first place? Any challenge that is all risk is a stupid challenge

because kids are stupid.

Allan

[Nemesis]

Lol

[Eagle-Keeper]

Here’s something else that seems a lot more prevalent today, more and more teenagers involved in crime:

MSN

[Eagle-Keeper]

@tnt

@Eagle-Keeper

@tnt

@Eagle-Keeper

How is trying to kick a person’s door in not dumber and more dangerous especially if an armed homeowner is on the other side?

Well, I guess I was just dumber and more reckless than you in my youth.

Where do I imply that in this post?

Because in looking back on my youth, I can think of a few things I have done that are dumber, more dangerous and reckless than kicking on someone’s door in the middle of the night.

You seemed to think not for you.

How about things like this:

MSN

Seven children have been officially charged for the viral November attack of a young mother and her son in Chicago.

According to NBC Chicago, three 10-year-old boys, a 10-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, and a 13-year-old girl were each charged with one or more misdemeanor counts of battery causing bodily harm. Each child was referred for counseling services and then released from custody.

So when you were between the ages of 10-13 years old did you ever assault a mother and her child?

[Guvnah]

@Eagle-Keeper

How about things like this:

(snip article)

So when you were between the ages of 10-13 years old did you ever assault a mother and her child?

A lot of this extreme stuff is minority-on-minority thuggery by fatherless kids. Libs will do all they can to downplay the societal and cultural foundation of the problem with our young generation. This isn’t going to improve any time soon.