16-year-old killed when teens wearing body armor take turns shooting each other

[patrikky]

Darwinism

Natural Selection.

 

[OldBroad44]

I shot mine with an AirSoft.

Once when I was at an SF writers workshop in a home in EUgene some of them started freaking out and calling for someone to stomp this huge spider that turned up. I went over and picked up the spider gently in my bare hands and carried it gently outdoors.

I had no idea whether the spider would bite me. And I don't recommend picking them up with bare hands. Especially when you don't know what species the spider is, which I didnt. Normally I would use a piece of paper to relocate the spider. But I got carried away by the presence of the audience and went for the dramatic. Fortunately the spider cooperated. I'm a lot older now and wouldn't get so seduced by the desire to show off. But I'd still relocate a spider rather than killing it.

 

[cigars]

A Florida boy who will never get to be a Florida man. Darwin says..."here's your sign".

 

[po18guy]

Some things go beyond words.

 

[salmon creek gary]

I choked in amazement at seeing 10 thumbs down (!) to the insightful comment, " . . . found a way to fix stupid."

 

[ilostmypswrd]

I don't even know what to say, so much stupid, also very sad for the the dead kids family.

 

[Yarome]

. . . found a way to fix stupid."

This!

Mythbusted the bubblegum out of that old adage!

 

[Stomper]

Once when I was at an SF writers workshop in a home in EUgene some of them started freaking out and calling for someone to stomp this huge spider that turned up. I went over and picked up the spider gently in my bare hands and carried it gently outdoors.

I had no idea whether the spider would bite me. And I don't recommend picking them up with bare hands. Especially when you don't know what species the spider is, which I didnt. Normally I would use a piece of paper to relocate the spider. But I got carried away by the presence of the audience and went for the dramatic. Fortunately the spider cooperated. I'm a lot older now and wouldn't get so seduced by the desire to show off. But I'd still relocate a spider rather than killing it.

Yeabutt the spider didn't have gun, so you weren't THAT foolish.

 

[308]

We kept stabbing the X button
But he wouldn't respawn


I'm giving it 1-Star on Amazon

​

 

[Andy54Hawken]

So after events like the OP the cry of :
"Something needs to be done ! "
Is often heard.

I would agree.
That something should be :
Teaching your children respect for life ...
And safe firearm handling practices.

No law , ban or restriction will keep you safe from the dangerous misuse of firearms.
What you do when handling firearms can keep you free from harm.
Andy

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Are these guys members of the Crowe family?

 

[Lennie]

I have empathy for the families and friends of those young men. Yes, this was stupid and yet it ranks right up there with many of us when we sometimes say, here hold my beer-I have an idea.

 

[deerbandit]

16-year-old killed when teens wearing body armor take turns shooting each other in Florida, police say

A 16-year-old boy was killed when he and another teen took turns shooting at each other while wearing a form of body armor, according to police.

www.clickorlando.com

They call them Darwin awards for a reason. Only in floriduh though.

 

[Rkangel]

If only...

 

[nammac]

I have empathy for the families and friends of those young men. Yes, this was stupid and yet it ranks right up there with many of us when we sometimes say, here hold my beer-I have an idea.

Difference between sarcasm (here hold my beer, as you say) and stupidity (here put these vests on we'll shoot at each other)…

 

[Rkangel]

Difference between sarcasm (here hold my beer, as you say) and stupidity (here put these vests on we'll shoot at each other)…

Yep. It's a lot like the two meth-heads that broke into a local power sub-station to steal copper wire off of live transformers... Police found one guy hanging on the fence across the yard with massive burns all over his body. Emergency workers found the charred remains of his buddy on one of the transformers. Can't say these levels of stupidity warrant much sympathy.

 

[Capn Jack]

Once when I was at an SF writers workshop in a home in EUgene some of them started freaking out and calling for someone to stomp this huge spider that turned up. I went over and picked up the spider gently in my bare hands and carried it gently outdoors.

I had no idea whether the spider would bite me. And I don't recommend picking them up with bare hands. Especially when you don't know what species the spider is, which I didnt. Normally I would use a piece of paper to relocate the spider. But I got carried away by the presence of the audience and went for the dramatic. Fortunately the spider cooperated. I'm a lot older now and wouldn't get so seduced by the desire to show off. But I'd still relocate a spider rather than killing it.

Kind of like a snake, it depends on where I find them.

 

[OldBroad44]

Yeabutt the spider didn't have gun, so you weren't THAT foolish.

Right. And had it been a black widow, one of the few really serious poisonous spiders, and one I can identify, I would have just killed it.

Black widows can create colonies of thousands of babies. And having such a colony in your yard or garden where you work with bare hands isn't helpful. I had such a colony in, on, and near my mailbox for a while.

 

[The B]

very sad. if we had tougher teenager laws this might not have happened.

im guessing the vest was actually a flak jacket.. or maybe even just some home made bullshît?

 

[Boboclown]

I disagree with the statement of phones making people stupid. Just made it easier to find out who is being stupid.