Thursday, May 22, 2008

I Think Shooting a Kid is Probably Over-rated

Man five months since my last post... That is sad.

I was reading a message board this morning and came across a post by a long-haul trucker who'd claimed to have caught a kid trying to syphon gas from his rig last night. This fella claimed to have taken the kid - the son of a neighbor - back to his parents at shotgun point.

The overwhelming sentiment was that of regret that the trucker didn't blow the young man's head "smooth off" - though this feeling was tempered with the knowlege that blasting a punk who desereved it would undoubtably have resulted in manslaughter charges or some similar B.S. entanglement with Jonny Law.

There were also a considerable number of posters who shared their fantasies about confronting vandalizing, theiving teenages with various lethal armements and who looked forward to the day when they would be afforded an oportunity like the trucker's. The detail of these descriptions was quite elaborate and colorful.

I don't care much for teenagers, but I don't think I'd care much for shooting one either. Perhaps I am missing something.