Teen fatally shot

[jacksmar]

Teen fatally shot when he mistakenly went into wrong house

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/teen-fatally-shot-mistakenly-walked-wrong-house-163650001.html

A 16-year-old who lived in Loudoun County, Va., was shot and killed when he accidentally entered the wrong house.

Caleb Gordley, a popular athlete who had been living in a brick house with his parents and sister for about a year, sneaked out of his house to go to a party with friends after he'd been grounded for not cleaning his room.

When he returned around 2 a.m. he slipped into the house he thought was his. Friends said he had been drinking and mistook his neighbor’s similar house two doors down for his own and climbed in through the back window.

When the burglar alarm sounded, the homeowner treated Caleb as an intruder, and shot and killed him.


The real story: Ubama unable to determine if he had a son, that he would look like Caleb Gordley

[sadaist]

and climbed in through the back window.

When the burglar alarm sounded, the homeowner treated Caleb as an intruder, and shot and killed him.

well, he was an intruder.


But we don't know how much the homeowner called out for a response in the dark or what happened. Maybe he flipped on the lights and the drunk kid was surprised and lunged at him? But yeah, sad story. My mom snuck late when she was young and my grandpa almost shot her. But he called out first..."is that you Bonnie?" and she replied. I wonder if these neighbors knew the boy. I lived in my last neighborhood about 10 years and only knew a couple of my neighbors.

[ELVIS]

If I thought someone was in my house in the middle of the night, I'm not going to be calling out for any response...

[DLR Bridge]

If I thought someone was in my house in the middle of the night, I'm not going to be calling out for any response...

You wake up at 3 am, your wife isn't next to you in bed and no lights are on in the house. You'll be calling out for a response.

[ELVIS]

That's different...

[DLR Bridge]

A rumbling noise is a rumbling noise.

[jhale667]

Teen fatally shot when he mistakenly went into wrong house

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/teen-fatally-shot-mistakenly-walked-wrong-house-163650001.html

A 16-year-old who lived in Loudoun County, Va., was shot and killed when he accidentally entered the wrong house.

Caleb Gordley, a popular athlete who had been living in a brick house with his parents and sister for about a year, sneaked out of his house to go to a party with friends after he'd been grounded for not cleaning his room.

When he returned around 2 a.m. he slipped into the house he thought was his. Friends said he had been drinking and mistook his neighbor’s similar house two doors down for his own and climbed in through the back window.

When the burglar alarm sounded, the homeowner treated Caleb as an intruder, and shot and killed him.


The real story: Ubama unable to determine if he had a son, that he would look like Caleb Gordley

It's a tragedy, and you using it to try to make a lame Obama joke? Pathetic.

[FORD]

People do occasionally walk into the wrong house. They don't even have to be drunk.

A few years ago I was standing in my kitchen cooking dinner when this kid just walked in the back door. He saw me and just about shit his pants on the spot. Turns out he was the little brother of the guy who lived next door at the time.

Now, I had a sharp knife in my hand at the time. If he hadn't explained himself, and been so obviously scared shitless, I may well have considered my options, and gutted him, if it were necessary. Fortunately, it was very obvious that there was no threat, and nobody got hurt.

Now if I had been a trigger happy gun-nut and shot the poor kid before he opened his mouth, he would be dead, I'd probably be in prison, and it all would have been over a really silly mistake.

Just a little perspective for y'all.......

[chefcraig]

You wake up at 3 am, your wife isn't next to you in bed and no lights are on in the house. You'll be calling out for a response.

Unless you happen to be this guy. In that case, you pick up a gun and start shooting at the bathroom door...

[vandeleur]

This isnt a comment of Pistorius guilt or otherwise .

I caught a part of an interview with the south african rugby player Rudi Visagi a couple of days ago .
The guy shot his daughter by accident some time ago, He thought his car was being stolen and shot into it to discover his daughter in it.

He painted a scary almost unbelievable scenario where people with money or influence had to lock themselves in at night in compunds to protect themselves from a basically lawless state .
His discription of locking up compounds/safe houses was more the omega man than nipping down to check on the front door.

He explained that if you were in you car at any point in the evening you couldnt slow down or stop for red lights in fear of being murdered .
In some respects it echoed some of what people said during the initial pistorius case, in that a culture of shot first or the bogey man will get you had entrenched its self in curtain sections of the south african public.

As I said this is more a comment on south africa than pistorius.

[sadaist]

If I thought someone was in my house in the middle of the night, I'm not going to be calling out for any response...

You grab your gun, aim in direction of intruder, and say "whos there?"

Not that difficult and you might be sparing the life of a family member, friend, or just some drunk stupid kid that doesn't deserve to die for getting drunk.


Rule #1 is always...KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOUR TARGET IS


If you just blindly fire into the dark in the direction of noises chances are it's gonna end badly.

Pulling the trigger should be a last resort. Absolute last resort. Louis L'Amour is dead and he isn't gonna write about you, so you might as well use caution when firing off that lead.

[SunisinuS]

If I thought someone was in my house in the middle of the night, I'm not going to be calling out for any response...

Is that you Pistorius?

[Nitro Express]

Identify your target before destroying it. Simple as that. It doesn't matter what weapon you have. A police flashlight, a baseball bat, an axe, a gun, a cast iron frying pan, a rolling pin. That way you don't take uncle Charlie out when he's crawling in from a late night bender.

[Nickdfresh]

Not that difficult and you might be sparing the life of a family member, friend, or just some drunk stupid kid that doesn't deserve to die for getting drunk.


....

Only Elvis is allowed to do really stupid shit when he's drunk.

The cliche is that the people who hate smokers the most are ex-smokers. I think that it's even more true for non-practicing alcoholics like Hareslutt...

[Nickdfresh]

I can't imagine just opening fire without warning, that's pretty fucking cowardly actually...