Every couple of years we hear about another person who thinks it's funny to drop things from bridges onto the highways below. I had some douchebag kids drop 2 bricks on my car the other night... my car's $3000 to fix and I lost about 6 hours that night with stopping there, then going to the hospital (because one brick came through the windshield and hit me). The kids had done it the past couple of weekends and were about to do it again on Monday night... they had stolen some more bricks from a construction site, packed them into the car, threw some at a house (whose owner called the police and that's how they got caught), then drove to a bridge and were stopping and turning off their lights when the police caught them. So they had no intention of stopping. Then the other day they went to juvi and denied they did anything... and covered their faces when they walked in. The one's this scrawny little kid with this long greasy hair... and the other one plays a lot of sports.
2007-03-29 18:39:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I just can't understand why anyone thinks this is a good idea. And then they can't even have the decency to admit they did it and they were wrong. And they're going to end up with some short sentence and be back out before they're 30... after doing this repeatedly and damaging 40 cars and injuring a couple of people... It's not even like they only did it once... they did it repeatedly... it wasn't bad enough that they did it the first weekend, but they thought it was so cool that they came back and did it again the next weekends. They were never sorry. They were just complete morons who our society should never have to deal with...
One guy on a message board on the news said we should put them in a car and have them drive under some bridges and we get to throw things down at them... and whatever happens happens ;o)
2007-03-29 18:46:42 · update #1
one of the kids' dad was on the news and said the boy had always been at school or work, and played baseball, basketball, and football... the guy was shocked the kid had any time for brickthrowing.
Honestly, that's not the type of person I expected when I got hit with the bricks... and from what the dad said, i don't think I can really blame him... I was really busy in highschool and was always there. I told my parents what practice I was at all the time, but they didn't come check on me or anything... I'm not sure we could really expect this guy to know what the kid was doing... I'd like to think that I could trust my kids to go be at their practices without me constantly checking on them... this is scary because it can be any kid... even the ones who are the most popular and most well behaved.
2007-03-29 19:02:27 · update #2
Your lucky to be alive.I don't think I've ever met anyone who thought it was funny,either as a child,nor an adult.I think it's because of a lack of supervision and a lack of things for kids to do to stay out of trouble like this in most larger cities and towns.
I just read your updates,and agree with why you're upset.If I had it my way,these kids who find it a joke should be locked in rooms with the victims and their families for at least 30 minutes,no holds barred.
BUT... maybe seeing the pictures and films of the devastation they caused could make them think about what really happens...
2007-03-29 18:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was in the news in GB a few years back, that someone had threw a brick at a lorry windscreen from a motorway bridge. The driver managed to pull over safely before a heart attack put him out of action, but what would have happened had he just lost control?
2007-03-30 12:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, it all comes down to spanking being child abuse and stupid nonsence like that. Personally, I think kids have gotten worse, and not only should the parents have to pay for it, there should be manditory sentences for the parents to spend time in jail as well, and I also think there should be stiffer laws for persons 12 to 17. This stuff shouldn't be exponged from their records when they turn 18.
All kids do stupid things for many reasons, but there should be a line, something like a juvanile misderminor, and juvanile felony.
2007-03-30 02:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by pyledriver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to hear about that happening to you--i read somewhere some kids did it with a jar of acid, burned some poor womans face up badly.. why they think its funny is beyond me, but i agree with you..put them in a car, and let people throw stuff down on them. id launch a bowling ball and maybe a couple bricks.
2007-03-30 01:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by red77chevy350 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're lucky to be alive. A couple of the local shitbags were caught after dropping a large rock off of an overpass that killed a woman when it came through the windshield and hit her. They (and their idiot parents) couldn't understand why they were convicted of 2nd degree murder (as adults) and sent to prison for 25-to-life.
2007-03-30 08:10:37 · answer #5 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of young kids do stuff like this. The parents should have to pay.
2007-03-30 07:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Trump 2020 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those kids should have to pay for all the damage that they did. and not with their parents money either. if they don't have the cash then they should have to do some kind of community service type thing. D-BAGS!!
2007-03-30 01:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by purpledeucegirl06 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋