Geeez Louise!
What happens when some kid accidentally throws a ball into you guys' back yards.p
I kindly grab the ball for them, hand it back, and ask them if they play ball in school or on any teams, generally shoot the breeze if I'm not terribly busy.
If a kid purposely threw a ball
at my home, then it's a different story. Time to let the police handle the little vandals if talking to the parents first does not help. And I'd be confiscating the ball until I spoke with the parents.
In this story, no one accidentally threw a cap-gun wielding kid into this guy's yard. The kid willfully trespassed onto private property and did something completely stupid.
The other story was not about some kids' bottle rocket going astray and accidentally screaming off onto the roadway either. You cannot equate the two, and even in trying to do so, you are not making your point very well anyway.
Are you a liberal by any chance? Because it would explain why you seem to hold the opinion that the little booger-eaters should be able to do as they please, running amok in the nieghborhood, trespassing, shooting bottle rockets at people and such without reprimand, because, after all 'they're just being kids'. If parents cannot accept the reponsibility to raise their children right, to stay out of people's property and not vandalize or be a punk, then when he comes into my property, they've just made it my problem. One that will be dealt with, either by the parents themselves after a nice long talk, or by the police in juvy hall if need be.
But maybe I am reading you wrong?
Oh - wait. I know...
You put on your ninja suits, grab your kitanas, strap on a 1911 and then go outside, hide in the shadows and lop their heads off when they violate the sanctity of your holy domains! Yeah that's it. That's the ticket
Now no need to be an idiot. I'm a mall ninja because I don't want your kids on my property? How about I let my dogs crap in your yard then? I didn't nail your wife, I am not raising your kids.
