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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. -- A 13-year-old Jefferson County boy says he knows what he did was wrong, but says it was an accident and he never intended to hurt anyone when he shot his toy airsoft gun at a friend, who was hit in the eye.
His parents say their son deserves to be punished, but believe juvenile felony assault charges go too far.
http://www.kdvr.com/kdvr-jeffco-boy-facing-felony-charges-over-airsoft-gun-20110127,0,3080168.story (http://www.kdvr.com/kdvr-jeffco-boy-facing-felony-charges-over-airsoft-gun-20110127,0,3080168.story)
Man we shot each other with BB guns when I was little, and the taxpayers are gonna put up with this shit?
Byte Stryke
02-03-2011, 18:38
Think we need to go down to the Jeffco DAs office and see how many Jobs we can cut.
Because it sure seems to me that they are looking for things to do.
beast556
02-03-2011, 18:48
Nothing suprises me any more. Glad I didnt grow up in jeffco, I would be in prision along with every friend I had. I guess kids cant be kids any more.
clublights
02-03-2011, 19:03
and the other kid IS FINE..
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME ???????????????????
hell I think i STILL have bb's in my ass from when we were kids....
DeusExMachina
02-03-2011, 19:06
What a great way to ruin a kid's life.
StagLefty
02-03-2011, 19:25
2 boys screwing around with airsoft guns and it turns into this !!! WTF is happening ? The stuff we did when I was a kid would be electric chair stuff nowadays. [Rant1]
clublights
02-03-2011, 19:31
Hell ,
how we used to determine who the toughest kid on the block was how many "pumps" you could take at 25' or so and not cry.
I'd still be in prison if we did that kinda stuff nowadays it seems.
I could understand if the other kid had lost his eyesight( well understand it a but more but not completely) but since he is A-OK ....
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Hell ,
how we used to determine who the toughest kid on the block was how many "pumps" you could take at 25' or so and not cry.
I'd still be in prison if we did that kinda stuff nowadays it seems.
I could understand if the other kid had lost his eyesight( well understand it a but more but not completely) but since he is A-OK ....
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THIS^^^^100%
All common sense has left America.
Scott Storey's shop, goes after old men and little boys with a heavy-hand, what a puss.
Byte Stryke
02-03-2011, 20:48
I Just find it difficult to believe that the crime rate is Jefferson county is so low that the DA has nothing better to do that to pursue little kids that are playing with legal and safe toys.
what next? a sexually assault suit filed against a toddler for kissing the girls in his head start class???
gnihcraes
02-03-2011, 20:49
FYI. I know this kid, and other family members know his mother really well. The father is a POS, no matter what you're seeing on the news. The kid was good at one time, but has gone bad due to the mother/father relationship going bad over the last few years. The kid has become a bully in many other situations, and has bullied my son in the past. Read the details of the police reports and other documents if they are available online, it doesn't appear to be an "accident" with the air soft gun.
I do believe the DA's are going overboard on this though, and the father figure here isn't helping the situation out at all.
I'm waiting to see Peter Boyles (sp) go out to the county courthouse with toy guns and simulated weapons, I doubt the law will find any humor in the event.
spittoon
02-03-2011, 22:22
and to think this da is from California send him back[Bang]
gnihcraes
02-03-2011, 22:49
I have to add this though, I was involved with a criminal case, and Scott Story and his crew were doing the investigation. I am glad they dug deep and got all the facts, it proved a lot of people innocent in the ordeal, especially me. They filed appropriate charges and were going to make them stick. As for this kid, I'm not sure its warranted to go this far with it.
We'd hang out in the garage and make guns out of PVC that we could use to shoot bottle rockets at each other. More than once my hair caught on fire.
I still remember my buddy running through a field with a green fuzzy from a roman candle stuck in his hair. He got me back with a shot right to the chest that left a target-shaped bruise; the middle was burned and a bruise ring around it.
good times... goooood tiiiiimes....
srhcustom
02-04-2011, 12:28
You know, there are plenty of adults that take all their airsoft gear out to hunt each other down and shoot at each other.... Maybe Jeffco should go out and arrest all of them for attempted 1st degree murder.
Inconel710
02-04-2011, 12:45
FYI. I know this kid, and other family members know his mother really well. The father is a POS, no matter what you're seeing on the news. The kid was good at one time, but has gone bad due to the mother/father relationship going bad over the last few years. The kid has become a bully in many other situations, and has bullied my son in the past. Read the details of the police reports and other documents if they are available online, it doesn't appear to be an "accident" with the air soft gun.
I do believe the DA's are going overboard on this though, and the father figure here isn't helping the situation out at all.
My guess is they're throwing the book at him to get a plea deal and avoid court. Hopefully they can scare this kid straight, but I'm not holding my breath.
God we used to get all camo'd up and use the neighborhood as our battlefield.. BB guns a blazin!
We'd build launchers out of pvc too.. man there were some grand battles.. only ONCE did a kid come close to losing an eye.. he was fine though.
WTF is gonna happen when these pussy kids have to go to war?
Think we need to go down to the Jeffco DAs office and see how many Jobs we can cut.
Because it sure seems to me that they are looking for things to do.
No shit.... ............While Airsoft guns are outlawed in my town, I have no issue with my son and his buddy's hittin the numerous field's we have around here for a round of GI-Joe, I only mandate they all wear eye protection and respect the area around them. Oh wait, perhaps its better for my son to sit on his ass in front of the TV playing Wii or X-Box, while pounding down Doritos and soda.
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hollohas
02-04-2011, 16:57
Another story with Airsoft pellets. This time a kid shot them out of a pen tube (like spit wads). He was expelled from school for the whole year and is facing 3 assault charges.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/03/virginia-teen-expelled-facing-criminal-charges-shooting-plastic-spitballs/
The family of a Virginia teen suspended for the remainder of the school year for shooting plastic "spitwads" at students in the hallway is targeting the school district's zero-tolerance policy, claiming that it's "criminalizing childish behavior."
Andrew Mikel II, a freshman honor student at Spotsylvania High School who also is active in Junior ROTC, is filling an appeal to be reinstated and have his record cleared after school officials suspended him for using what appeared to be the hollow body of a pen to blow small plastic balls at three students during his lunch period last December.
The 14-year-old initially was hit with a 10-day suspension, but the Spotsylvania County School Board later voted to extend the punishment for the rest of the school year, citing the Student Code of Conduct's requirement that a student found with "any type of weapon, or object used to intimidate, threaten or harm others" be "expelled for a minimum of 365 days" unless "special circumstances exist."
The district also referred the case to the Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office, which charged him with three counts of misdemeanor assault.
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Scott said those victims, two females and one male, complained of feeling a "pinch" or "sting" when they were hit with the pellets and one even had a welt on her arm as result.
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Mikel says he thinks detention probably would have been more fitting.
"My son did an infraction and he deserves a just punishment but this is like cutting someone's hand off for stealing a piece of cabbage," he said. "If my son, instead of shooting a spitball, went up and punched a student right in the face he would only have gotten five days suspension and even if he'd drawn blood the school resource officer said police still wouldn't have gotten involved."
"It takes four state agencies to go after someone with a spitwad: It takes the sheriff's department, the commonwealth attorney, the school board on various levels and the department of juvenile justice … what a fine use of taxpayer resources," he added.
The kid sounds like kind of an immature dick, after all he did hit a girl with the pellets and when asked to "stop" and "why are you doing that" he responded "Cause I want to."
But I think detention and a good swift kick in the ass from his dad would be a better punishment. The Dad is right...seems like a waste of time and tax payer money. [Bang]
BPTactical
02-04-2011, 17:07
Certain official entities are doing everything they can to ensure the males of the future are a bunch of Pussies.
hollohas
02-04-2011, 17:17
Certain official entities are doing everything they can to ensure the males of the future are a bunch of Pussies.
Could not agree more. And it is more than official entities; they have many parents on board too. Saw it happening when I was in high school as a member of our State Championship bound FB team. Parents always calling "Why are you making my boy run so much in practice?", "My boy got hit too hard in practice, save it for the game", "Why isn't my boy playing more. That's not fair." Cause we want to win idiots.
And you can't even find any toy cap guns in the stores like you used to. What happened to encouraging boys to play cowboys and indians or cops and robbers?? Heaven forbid we let our boys be boys...
Makes me sick. Grow a pair people.
There have been NO parental mentor/alpha figures in childrens lives since the 60's. All the parents now days must learn to raise, discipline, feed, help, and learn to talk to their kids by watching the IDIOTS on the news.
And the neighbors across the street must learn that if your kid gets hit, whacked tripped, shot etc by another kid then you MUST press charges it is the American way.
Fuck this countries PC shit I have had enough and glad I grew up when people had a brain and could think for themselves.
You know, there are plenty of adults that take all their airsoft gear out to hunt each other down and shoot at each other.... Maybe Jeffco should go out and arrest all of them for attempted 1st degree murder.
I don't know about airsoft, but paintballing sure is fun.
Could not agree more. And it is more than official entities; they have many parents on board too. Saw it happening when I was in high school as a member of our State Championship bound FB team. Parents always calling "Why are you making my boy run so much in practice?", "My boy got hit too hard in practice, save it for the game", "Why isn't my boy playing more. That's not fair." Cause we want to win idiots.
And you can't even find any toy cap guns in the stores like you used to. What happened to encouraging boys to play cowboys and indians or cops and robbers?? Heaven forbid we let our boys be boys...
Makes me sick. Grow a pair people.
+1
hollohas
02-04-2011, 18:01
I think what we're getting at here is that shooting at each other is damn fun. We'd just prefer to live another day to do it again so us "responsible" people use airsoft, paintball, bb guns, bottle rockets, roman candles, etc. rather than real guns. [UZI]
DeusExMachina
02-04-2011, 18:03
Airsoft is cooler because the guns look real. [Coffee]
There have been NO parental mentor/alpha figures in childrens lives since the 60's. All the parents now days must learn to raise, discipline, feed, help, and learn to talk to their kids by watching the IDIOTS on the news.
And the neighbors across the street must learn that if your kid gets hit, whacked tripped, shot etc by another kid then you MUST press charges it is the American way.
Our (at the time, 6 year old) little girl was almost expelled from school for defending herself against an older boy on the playground. She had come home a few times complaining about the boy picking on her. She knows a little on how to defend herself but wanted to ask us what to do. So, I told her to tell her teacher and any other grown up on the playground, if they don't do anything, defend yourself. Another weeks goes by, daughter still complaining (I have called her teacher at this point also) and finally one day, we get a call from the school "your daughter is in the principals office for hurting another child on the playground". I knew what happened. In the end, she was let go with nothing happening to her and the parents of the other boy took him out of her school because they believed my daughter should have been punnished. The boy was pulling her hair so she turned around and decked him (not one of those windmill types of punch either), then he grabbed her and tried to take her down (from what she and the other kids that were watching said). "Then", she said, "he was close enough to head butt like you taught me" which did the most damage by getting his nose to gush, from what I saw.
Fuck this countries PC shit I have had enough and glad I grew up when people had a brain and could think for themselves.
Airsoft is cooler because the guns look real. [Coffee]
Ya, the realism is a big factor I would guess. Don't have to clean up really either (paint).
DSB OUTDOORS
02-04-2011, 19:39
Airsoft is cooler because the guns look real. [Coffee]
I agree. But paintball adds the fun of the pain and the Bruising that you can talk about for days with you're friend's!! [LOL]
Limited GM
02-04-2011, 22:13
Certain official entities are doing everything they can to ensure the males of the future are a bunch of Pussies.
Thats sig line worthy right there.
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