Comments on: Life For Killing Boy Who Tread On Lawn

Ohio Man Sentenced In Shooting Of 15-Year-Old Who Crossed His Yard

[mjm117]

Everyone has dealt with punk kids. Doesn't mean they are all that way. Maybe the old man was mean and harrassed the kid every day just for being a teenager? Still doesn't justify his action. Kids are kids. It's not like kids were saints "back in the day". Kids in every generation have had their issues.

[wadyaknow]

Oh ADD my A S S.
I've known punks my entire life.
We had one in recent years who actually would stand at the end of your driveway and not let you get out. He also kicked a 90 year old man.
He went too far a couple years ago and stood in the street and was run down. We celebrated.
This old man was probably very lonely. He took pride in something and the smartass punk tormented him. Maybe the old man had ADD. I am sick of the punk kids always getting away with things and I have felt that way since I was a kid.

[phuong77-2009]

I read a few people defended the old man action... Please put yourself in this kid's parents shoe, and think how would you feel if someone murder your kid?

[mjm117]

What the hell is wrong with you people? Does anyone deserve to lose a life over stepping on someones grass?? I confront kids weekly for cutting through my yard to get to the next neighborhood. Never once have I even entertained the idea of sitting there for 3 hours with a loaded shotgun for them to return. This old man deserves every day he sits in jail. And to even bother speaking about the kid being a "punk" or "brat" without knowing him or even being able to hear his side of the story is ignorant. He is dead. A life is lost because some old man had a stick up his rear. It's grass people. Who doesn't mow their year every 5 days?

[processor2]

I had a little neighborhood brat (aka teenager) that always tearing up my fence.

But I didn't shoot the kid

Instead, I just put poison ivy all over my fence.

Problem solved

...

[processor2]

I had a little neighborhood brat (aka teenager) that always tearing up my fence.

But I didn't shoot the kid

Instead, I just put poison ivy all over my fence.

Problem solved

...

[missingamerica]

What makes me think this guy's neighborhood was zoned "no fences"...

[noplace2poop]

The ole man and the little brat were both doing something wrong. Maybe they should have read and believed Davy Crockett's statement when he said, "Always be sure you're right, then go ahead."
Or believed Jesus when he said, "You'll never overcome evil by doing MORE EVIL! But you'll certainly overcome evil with good!"

This advice from Jesus and Davy must be true! It's obviously true! See this--- If either one of these people would have taken this advice, the old man would not be in prison and the brat would still be walking around after school.

Whether you're a believer or not, you'll agree that Davy and Jesus were telling the TRUTH!

[mdc76082]

sandy19731, I couldn't agree with you more. I take care of my acrage not for me & my family to enjoy, but for everyone to enjoy. We always say hello, wave and could care aless if the kids cross it to retrieve their baseballs, frisbees, etc. They are always polite when asking to do so, because we are polite to them. This guy was just a cranky, mean, hateful, spiteful old geezer. I knew many of his type while growing up. They hate everybody, everything, and they are never at peace. To kill a person, especially a child over a blade of grass...you've got to be the meanest, sickest, most hateful, crankiest, SOB this side of He_ll. He got what he deserved. Let him become Bubba's 67-year old love machine. Out-of-control anger and revenge are never the resolve, unless a nice stiff prison term is worth it to you.

[mitywhity]

This old son-of-a-ditch should be gut shot with his .410 and left on his precious lawn to bleed out and die! "I cared about it..." speaking of his lawn. I believe him and I think that his corpse should fertilize it!