Posted on 11/09/2009 8:36:17 AM PST by Dallas59
Like his neighbors, Jonathan Bird had grown tired of hearing tires squeal on the street outside his Wylie home.
When the 28-year-old confronted five teens about the annoyance just before midnight Saturday, they responded by beating him to death on a neighbor's lawn, police say.
Four of the five suspects charged with murder are 16 years old. Their names are being withheld because they are minors. The fifth suspect is 17-year-old Ethan Dorris of Wylie.
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Poor Mr.Bird. He should have taken the “Clint Eastwood-GranTorino” approach when he came out on his lawn to protest.But since he didn’t,these punkasses should get the death penalty.
And as typical these kids’ parents were MIA.
It’s Dallas, and he doesn’t have a gun?
That's how it starts and that should be a clear warning to the parents and the authorities.
Remember the first thing Mayor Rudy did when he decided it was time to clean up The Big Apple? He went after the small things, by cutting the future law breaker at the beginning of the chain instead of the other end he had remarkable success.
These kids are everywhere these days. Their parents buy them new cars while they are still high school students, they have cell phones, Ipods, laptops, etc. They have everything, except the attention of their parents to know where they are are with whom they are doing whatever at a time when high school kids should not be on the street.
It truly saddens me that we will spend thousand and thousands of dollars a year to keep these punks incarcerated for a length of time and when they are turned loose on the rest of us they will be worse than they are today.
Our whole system is broken. We are increasingly unable to protect the innocent or punish the guilty.
He's a better man than me. I would've confronted them only if armed and wouldn't have hesitated to shoot if they were trying to kill me. Poor guy.
Ethan Dorris
I suspect meth.
In my neighborhood, I used to have problems with a neighbor behind us playing extraordinarily loud music. Every time he did it, I'd call the cops, and they'd shut him down.
droogie
Hmm, a gang beat-down that results in death... I don’t know the Texas Criminal Code that well, but I recall seeing something about those circumstances adding up to an “aggravated” crime, the same as using a gun or knife. It may swing these minors over the line to be tried as adults, too.
Looks like he was out enjoying some ultraviolence.
He needs to enjoy a rope.
Good advice. Also, people like that love confrontations and getting into arguments.
In my neighborhood, I used to have problems with a neighbor behind us playing extraordinarily loud music. Every time he did it, I'd call the cops, and they'd shut him down.
Good strategy. If you confront them they can end up calling the cops on you, and they'll probably play the music louder and more often just to annoy you.
An American version of “A Clockwork Orange.”
Why would anyone confront youths without a gun? Just insane. Did he value his own safety so little?
Fortunately, I live in a small city just outside of Houston. Basically, it’s a subdivision-sized city. The city does not want the residents to condone boorish behavior, as it drives down real-estate values; so they encourage us to call and report disruptors.
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