Posted on 11/21/2005 5:58:45 AM PST by Drawsing
Number 8 shot should work. Just remember to lead him.
Sounds like a kid to me.
"How can you shoot women and children!?
Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much."
What kid knows property lines or pays attention to them?
I'd let your neighbor know this kid was climbing his tree. If he has a problem with it than he can watch for the kid.
"How can you shoot women and children!?
Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much."
LOL. I kept thinking of that line when all the liberal refugees were talking about fleeing to Canada after the election. The mental picture of Dick Cheney yelling that over his shoulder gave me a giggle every time.
You signed up in 1998 just to post this? (just kidding! :-) )
Well, that is weird. I'm guessing that you had not seen this kid before, since you didn't say you had. I guess I would just make a point to watch closely for him, and try to observe him without being seen. Try to gather a little info about him - where he actually lives, etc. You said he gave you his name. If he gave you the last name, you might try "anywho.com" to see if a nearby address pops up.
With a kid that age, it really could be anything, running the full gamit from worst case jr. domestic terrorist to merely a hormone crazed, love-struck punk who is trying to spy on the little "hottie" acros the street.
Good luck.
If real, contact his family. If fake, tell the cops and have them fill out a report.
One of the things that frequently happens when someone is being harassed and it goes to court is the harasser gets treated very lightly because the judge's attitude is: "You said this guy was bothering you for a while, but you never contacted the police until last week."
Get the paperwork done so if the kid gets more out of hand it's all documented.
If the name he gave is real, wait until you talk to the family. If the family are unresponsive when you contact them, go to the cops and have the paperwork done.
It sounds ridiculous to go through this, but the kid clearly has attitude/mental problems and as we know, 13-15 year olds can be as dangerous as adults or more so if they have a grudge and a weapon.
Also check the law and see what kind of action in defense of your property the law in your state authorizes.
Normal kids apologize when they are caught pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable.
I would have to assume the kid is a time traveler from an earlier time, say the forties where I grew up. Maybe my neighborhood was weird or maybe it was normal for the time, but every kid in that neighborhood behaved exactly as the kid you mention, except for the lying of course, that was not allowed.
The homes with the best climbing trees put up with the most kids-that's where we gathered often and enmasse.
Personally I don't believe the kid is a threat of any kind or will seek retaliation in any way. Just my opinion.
Hey, Mikey Skakel got his start this way.
Is this a joke? Please tell me it is.
BTW - if you haven't already, ask your boys if they know him. If he does indeed live that close, he may go to the same school, and/or ride the same bus. They might be able to give you some clues.
Sounds to me like you were the Nazi Germans, and he was way out over enemy lines, and merely scouting you out, or at least that's how I would have thought at 8 or 10 years old.
When I was an 8 year old, the whole neighborhood was my yard. I didn't are about property lines, just finding the best spot for collecting acorns, or following my dog. The place was kind of Leave it to beaver-ish, with all the moms home and keeping an eye out for each others kids and all, but it was no big deal to climb someone elses tree, or hop in their pool if they were on vacation.
I knew everyone in the neighborhood. Most of them were my customers on my paper routes, or I nowed their lawn or blew theior leaves off in the fall or shovelled their driveway in the winter.
Why is it such a big deal if a kid is in another neighbors tree? Why would you even care. He wasn't doing anything especialy wrong. He was probably on a super important spy mission, or hunting terrorists in his own way. The imagination of a boy knows no bounds, especially some stupid arbitrary ( to a kid, anyway) property line.
If there were people in my neighborhood who got eggged on halloween, it was the busybody people who did what they could to stifle the development of a kid, and who had real wussy kids themselves. That's not to you are that way.
true that
Just don't play golf at midnight with the kid.
A normal adult doesn't go into a panic when a kid acts like a kid.
If 14 year old kids are capable of committing mass murder in today's society - and we both know they are - anyone who insists on the "Leave It To Beaver" approach is a fool.
I'm sure the Columbine mutants and the two teen psychopaths who chopped up that couple in VT were considered to be just kids being kids until the bodies piled up.
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