Not knowing all the facts, all I can say is that it's a mighty thin pancake that doesn't have two sides.
I've lived in rural areas most of my life. Years ago, my wife and I were out of town overnight and our 17-year old son was left home alone to watch the house, feed the stock, etc. A little after midnight, he was awakened by our dogs barking outside. When that happens, you can almost bet the ranch that something is going on...fox in the hen house, cougar prowling around the corrals, ad infinitum.
Anyway, he pulls on his Wranglers, grabs his shotgun and flashlight, goes out on the front porch and racks one into the chamber while he's trying to determine what it was that was causing the ruckus.
All of the sudden, he hears someone shout, "He's got a shotgun!" and a bunch of kids scatter like bb's on a hardwood floor, leaving rolls of toilet paper in their wake.
He realized it was a harmless prank gone awry and he went back to bed.
Now, twenty-some-odd years later, we still live in a rural area. When the doorbell rings after nine o'clock p.m., I always go to the door with a handgun. It's just standard operating procedure out here. I certainly don't plan on shooting anybody for ringing my doorbell, but nowadays, you just have to plan for all unknown situations.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who are either paranoid or just plain scared of the way things are going in society. Was the old guy in the OP's story one of them? Who knows?
Like Old Bear stated, I sure hope the guy has a smart attorney who is willing to work cheap, because it'll probably cost him a pretty good chunk of change to get pulled out of this mess. And you know for a fact that the prosecuting attorney will paint the kid as simply going door-to-door selling Scout-O-Rama tickets.
I've lived in rural areas most of my life. Years ago, my wife and I were out of town overnight and our 17-year old son was left home alone to watch the house, feed the stock, etc. A little after midnight, he was awakened by our dogs barking outside. When that happens, you can almost bet the ranch that something is going on...fox in the hen house, cougar prowling around the corrals, ad infinitum.
Anyway, he pulls on his Wranglers, grabs his shotgun and flashlight, goes out on the front porch and racks one into the chamber while he's trying to determine what it was that was causing the ruckus.
All of the sudden, he hears someone shout, "He's got a shotgun!" and a bunch of kids scatter like bb's on a hardwood floor, leaving rolls of toilet paper in their wake.
He realized it was a harmless prank gone awry and he went back to bed.
Now, twenty-some-odd years later, we still live in a rural area. When the doorbell rings after nine o'clock p.m., I always go to the door with a handgun. It's just standard operating procedure out here. I certainly don't plan on shooting anybody for ringing my doorbell, but nowadays, you just have to plan for all unknown situations.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who are either paranoid or just plain scared of the way things are going in society. Was the old guy in the OP's story one of them? Who knows?
Like Old Bear stated, I sure hope the guy has a smart attorney who is willing to work cheap, because it'll probably cost him a pretty good chunk of change to get pulled out of this mess. And you know for a fact that the prosecuting attorney will paint the kid as simply going door-to-door selling Scout-O-Rama tickets.
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