Jeffco boy facing felony charges for Airsoft accident

[Mtn.man]

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

Man we shot each other with BB guns when I was little, and the taxpayers are gonna put up with this shit?

[Byte Stryke]

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]

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]

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]

What a great way to ruin a kid's life.

[StagLefty]

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.

[waxthis]

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.

[hollohas]

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...tic-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.

[BPTactical]

Certain official entities are doing everything they can to ensure the males of the future are a bunch of Pussies.

[hollohas]

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.