Floriduh

[ZiprHead]

Florida man took his son on paintball ‘drive by,’ police said. The boy, 10, ended up shot with a real gun.

As Michael Williams drove past a gathering in the yard of an Opa-locka, Fla., home on Sunday night, police said, his 10-year-old son fired a barrage of paintballs into the crowd from inside his father’s van.

It was the 10-year-old’s idea, police later said: He’d asked his dad if he would take him on a “drive by shooting” with his paintball gun, and Williams, 26, allegedly said yes.

But as the paintballs peppered the crowd, at least one of the victims thought the gunshots were real. So the man pulled out his own gun and fired a single bullet at the van — wounding the young boy and sending him to the hospital.

Stupid, stupid, stupid...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Wow, that is incredibly stupid, from start to finish. The boy gets shot, falls out of the vehicle, and is run over by the car he was in... and then the father puts him back into the vehicle, drives him to the hospital back home... where the mother calls 911. And it is possible, though not stated, that all of this happened while sober.

You couldn't script that, it is that stupid, well maybe Eastbound and Down.

 

[untermensche]

Don't blame Florida. Stupidity is everywhere.

Is somebody who storms the Capitol because Trump wanted it smarter than that father?

Is somebody who thinks a sitting president can't get evidence into the proper courts smarter than that father?

That father was stupid.

Part of a big club all over the US.

 

[Politesse]

You must admit Florida, as a state, manages to generate an unusual number of these types of stories.

I could easily imagine this happening in my hometown, though!

The big story last week down in Southern California was a road rager who gunned down a six year old on the roadside. Last I heard, the murderer is still at large.

 

[untermensche]

Someone would have to do the statistics.

But not all crazy behavior ends up getting people seriously hurt.

Some just comes close.

But when you ask people about reality and ask them about something like the last election the craziness is almost all Republican. It is not just from Florida. It is from everywhere.

Qanon members are now world wide.

 

[Politesse]

Someone would have to do the statistics.

But not all crazy behavior ends up getting people seriously hurt.

Some just comes close.

But when you ask people about reality and ask them about something like the last election the craziness is almost all Republican. It is not just from Florida. It is from everywhere.

Qanon members are now world wide.

The statistics confirm that Florida is pretty damn violent, as a state, though certainly not without competition; indeed, you're more likely to die from a firearm crime or accident if you live on the Bayou, Southern Piedmont, or in the rural West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state

 

[marc]

on the positive side, good that this kid did it now with a paint ball gun, rather than when he was a little older and could get a real one. And getting shot will probably mean he won't try that stupidity again.

Could have been worse, with a double Darwin Award winner.

 

[Jarhyn]

You must admit Florida, as a state, manages to generate an unusual number of these types of stories.

I could easily imagine this happening in my hometown, though!

The big story last week down in Southern California was a road rager who gunned down a six year old on the roadside. Last I heard, the murderer is still at large.

The sunshine laws make it a lot easier to access police reports and see the crazy. Combined with minimal educational infrastructure and a significant portion of the state being literal swampland, everything is in place to allow the reputation to grow legs and take off on its own.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Who said kids don't get out enough?

Two children in Florida ran away from a group home, broke into a house and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement officers responding to the scene, authorities said on Wednesday.

A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl found guns inside a home they broke into in Enterprise, Florida, and fired on sheriff's deputies, the Volusia County sheriff's office said in a statement.

They found an unsecured handgun, rifle, and AK-47, and lots of ammo.

Both survived though the girl was shot.