“That driver just leapt out on the spot and could be seen already a block away, chasing the kid and waving a tire iron.”
That’s exactly the same way I was cured of the habit of throwing snowballs at cars at the age of 13 or so. If we hadn’t been on home turf on a hillside covered in deep snow, I do believe he might have caught us.
Throwing anything at a car, especially a rock that could go through the window, is life threatening. The crossbowman may get off for self defense if he can convince the jury he ws in fear the kid would throw another.
at the same age or younger, we were out en force just after a storm. Several of us scored fastball direct hits. As the driver jumped out, one of our crew threw a sky ball. The guy was in his third sentence of screaming at us when thump - the sky ball hit in the middle of the windshield. We laughed until we cried, then cried some more when the guy found our parents. No matter what we said, we just could not convince anybody the the sky ball was thrown before the guy got out. That was the end of my throwing stuff at cars career.