A sad, constant bid for attention

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Your friend/group leader couldn't out run some old man? Was it his sister you eventually married?

This was always one of the many inconsistencies that made we wonder if there had been some type of conspiracy surrounding these events....... as for his sister, much like with your wife, while I consummated the relationship many times, I never made our children legitimate.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Well then, you and your friends in high school sound like assholes. No offence.

Less is confusing High School with Junior High School. In Junior High School Less and I were total jerks and threw all sorts of things at cars. In High School we were too busy chasing skirts to indulge in our pyromaniac and vandalistic tendencies (at least most of the time).

[Spanky]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Mov to the 'burbs where they throw kids in jail for that shit.

We lived in the burbs but luckily we never got caught.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Less is confusing High School with Junior High School. In Junior High School Less and I were total jerks and threw all sorts of things at cars. In High School we were too busy chasing skirts to indulge in our pyromaniac and vandalistic tendencies (at least most of the time).

Actual fashion question: growing up in SF area were many girls wearing skirts? i would have thought more army fatigues/cargo pants. wouldn't skirts have highlighted the unshaven legs?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Spanky
Less is confusing High School with Junior High School. In Junior High School Less and I were total jerks and threw all sorts of things at cars. In High School we were too busy chasing skirts to indulge in our pyromaniac and vandalistic tendencies (at least most of the time).

I, too, was a little prick in junior high school. Egging, tp-ing, pounding passing cars with snowballs, pouring a line of gasoline across the road and lighting it (don't know how I'm still alive), BB gun/roman candle wars, two-hour crab apple fights (those things hurt), mailbox baseball (that must have been in early HS), etc.

So, on behalf of me at 13, I am sorry, ncs.

[bold_n_brazen]

Aaron Eckhart, where have you been all my life?

[nononono]

Originally posted by Spanky
Less is confusing High School with Junior High School. In Junior High School Less and I were total jerks and threw all sorts of things at cars. In High School we were too busy chasing skirts to indulge in our pyromaniac and vandalistic tendencies (at least most of the time).

Has anyone read Hairstyles of the Damned? It's an easy read; I'm most of the way through it now. Set in early high school, south side of Chicago, and it's all about the twilight between these phases of life, sort of.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Aaron Eckhart, where have you been all my life?

He's hot. Thank *him* for being smokin'.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
So, Mr. Man and I were walking home tonight in our neighborhood when we heard a *pop* and a woman 5 feet in front of us (standing at a valet stand) was hit with a paintball that was shot from a car. My question: is there anything that makes high school punks from Brentwood who drive around shooting paintballs out of cars any less reprehensible than gang bangers in Compton who drive around shooting real bullets?

In any event, it was not a particularly pleasant experience to see someone shot right in front of us. A bit of a buzzkill.

I suspect you already know why someone who goes around shooting paintballs (which, although they hurt like hell, are in fact designed to be shot at people without causing permanent injury) is less reprehensible than someone who goes around shooting real bullets (which have a different purpose and effect). But if you do not, there is a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that touches on these issues:

State v. Coauette, 601 N.W.2d 443 (Minn. Ct. App. 1999)

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
True story, and potentially outable.......

As a youth in the burbs my posse engaged in lots of prankish behavior. One year, around Halloween time we were out egging houses, shitting in milk boxes etc etc et al. At one point we scatter when a homeowner comes out with a rifle and shoots it into the air (i.e skyward). We regroup a short while later at the appointed spot behind some trees off the side of the road in a wooded area. All of sudden a old tan Olds Delta 88 pulls up and slams on the brakes. Someone jumps out. We scatter into the woods, screaming. As I am running away I hear a crashing smashing sound (like Gallagher hitting a watermelon with one of those giant hammers) and all of sudden my crew's leader screams out in pain. We stop and turn around and see the Olds 88 peal out. Our comrade is on the ground writhing in pain. Turns out someone jumped out of the car and threw a whole pumpkin at us and hit him in the knee.

Translation: My crew's leader was slow.

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I suspect you already know why someone who goes around shooting paintballs (which, although they hurt like hell, are in fact designed to be shot at people without causing permanent injury) is less reprehensible than someone who goes around shooting real bullets (which have a different purpose and effect). But if you do not, there is a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that touches on these issues:

State v. Coauette, 601 N.W.2d 443 (Minn. Ct. App. 1999)

Although paintballs are perhaps not designed to be lethal, there is an example of a similar projectile not designed to be lethal [pepper spray projectile] that the Boston Police used during the World Series for crowd control, that killed a young Emerson student. Any technology like that has potential to go awry if mishandled.

Although, I note in such situations when faced with lethal, or non lethal paintball guns or real guns I highly suggest *not* taking Nicole DuFresne's approach by saying "So what are you going to do, shoot us?" She I note was from Minnesota.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I suspect you already know why someone who goes around shooting paintballs ............State v. Coauette, 601 N.W.2d 443 (Minn. Ct. App. 1999)

outable?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Although paintballs are perhaps not designed to be lethal, there is an example of a similar projectile not designed to be lethal [pepper spray projectile] that the Boston Police used during the World Series for crowd control, that killed a young Emerson student. Any technology like that has potential to go awry if mishandled.

There is a lot I could say in response to this post. But because I am nice, I am simply going to note that your example does nothing to persuade me that I am wrong in thinking that it is less reprehensible to go around shooting people with a paint gun than it is to go around shooting people with a real gun.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
There is a lot I could say in response to this post. But because I am nice, I am simply going to note that your example does nothing to persuade me that I am wrong in thinking that it is less reprehensible to go around shooting people with a paint gun than it is to go around shooting people with a real gun.

I wasn't making a case that it is less reprehensible. I was just pointing out that sometimes, techonology intended to be non lethal is harmful in certain instances. That is all.

Also, PLF that is the first time you did not totally pick apart my sentence structure as babbling incoherence. Or, perhaps that was part of you being nice.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I suspect you already know why someone who goes around shooting paintballs (which, although they hurt like hell, are in fact designed to be shot at people without causing permanent injury) is less reprehensible than someone who goes around shooting real bullets (which have a different purpose and effect). But if you do not, there is a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that touches on these issues:

State v. Coauette, 601 N.W.2d 443 (Minn. Ct. App. 1999)

Doesn't the answer really depend on the people involved?