Idiotic use of markers and the fatality involved

[BeaverEater]

IM glad he chased them down, but he went way to far by hitting them. Should of just gotten their plates and called the cops.

[jdev]

I'll go ahead and say the kids deserved it.

i will go ahead and agree with you, even if you are kidding.

hate to say it, but, they got what they had coming to them. end result is a little tragic, however, they must have realized that their actions wouldnt go consequence free. that, and there are this type of loonies (the ones who chase you down in vehicles) out there that do this. im sure the guy who hit them is in a boatload of trouble.. eh.

All you losers who think that kid deserves what he got think about all the stupid things you did when you were a kid. You are still alive aren't you. Write all those stupid things down and give me your address. I have a 9mm and some justice to serve.

the kid got what was coming to him. i suppose the rest of them are lucky, for 1, wearing their seatbelt, or 2, the guy didnt pull out a gun instead of give chase. maybe at the age of 19, the driver would have had a little more common sense to know that this was a bad idea. he had to have known there would be consequences to the actions. I doubt he thought it all the way through to this.. I gurantee you, he will be regretting driving that car the rest of his life, having been responsible for the death of his younger brother. i mean for christs sakes.. the kid was 3 years older than his brother. should have set more of an example.. now, cant set any example for him.

I have just one thing to say " What if it was your kid? " now shut up

i would have raised mine to know better. flawed arguement, based loosely on the fact that if it was my 19 and 16 year old boys, the 19 year old would be joining the 16 year old. that outta teach him to eff around with my kids.

[RiddalinJunkie08]

But,

Fleeing the scene and driving at speeds capable of flipping a vehicle is a criminal offense. Is it not?

Those kids endangered the public when they decided to flee at dangerous speeds. I'm more thankful that nobody else got hurt than I am saddened that the kid was killed or enraged that the idiot who pursued them took the law into his own hands.

It didn't say that they fled at dangerous speeds. Surburbans are very top heavy and if they were to say, go into a ditch at a normal speed could easily roll. I think it is going a bit far to say that they deserved to die for shooting cars and people with paintballs.

Beaver, I have had my plates written down. Since there was no police officer at the scene (I assume) they can do nothing except say "Ok sir, we will look into it..." because there is no proof. I could be wrong though since paintball guns were involved and there would be proof they were shooting (welts and broken paint)
-Mark

[XSSPL]

no one deserves to be shot by a paint marker by some kids "joyriding"... no one has the right to use a vehicle as a weapon and most of all... NO ONE DESERVES death in such a circumstance.

This "should have been wearing a seatbelt" or "had it coming", etc = bull****

there is no place for any of it in a civilized society. it's idiot kids that make it hard on the responsible marker owners and it's road raged morons that makes it harder on you and I to get insurance and end up getting people killed.

That was someones child - period. They could matured and become a gene scientist, the guy that finds a cure for whatever... could have been a complete **** up, whatever, but no one deserves death in an incident such as that.

[thorn]

and to think it happened in my own town.

i think that the kids did not deserve to die, but they deserved to be hurt. this is coming from me, the guy who says dont touch me to the kids at school, and the hardly poke me, and i punch them in the face and scream at them if you ever do that again ill beat the living )(# out of them. (hence the little thing beneath my name: dont poke me!)

anyway, i hate this, and im glad because even my advisor in school who is a mom and a teacher recognizes that paintball is a sport, and we talked about it alot cuz it happened to close to us. even the girls who occasionally go paintballing were mad bcuz then there parents wouldnt let them maybe.

see in texas, everyone loves paintball.

i would have just got the license plate, called the cops. plus..umm has that guy never heard of car insurance? he could qipe the paint off and have the garage do the suction thing to get the minor dents out. and i thought that i had anger problems.