Ding Dong Dixie, that's what we called it, and no one ever shot us....

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Ding-Dong-Ditch Shooting: Michael Bishop Of Louisville Charged With Shooting 12-Year-Old Over Prank

A Kentucky man has been charged with attempted murder after he shot a 12-year-old boy in the back for ringing his doorbell during a game of Ding Dong Ditch.

Jason Eberle of Louisville, was playing the game, which involves someone ringing a doorbell and running away, on Monday night with friends. The New York Post reports that after the kids rang 56-year-old Michael Bishop's bell he came out onto his porch armed with a shotgun and opened fire, hitting Eberle in the back and shoulder.

Bishop was arrested and has been charged with attempted murder. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that he was released Tuesday night after posting $10,000 bail.

Eberle was hit in the shoulder and the back and suffered two collapsed lungs in the incident. He is currently being treated in hospital where his condition is described as "improving".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/ding-dong-ditch-shooting-kentucky_n_877711.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2|70903

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[Edweird]

1. Shooting someone over a harmless prank is not only incredibly petty and assholish,

it's also a crime. A guy here in Florida did the same thing a few years back. Total dick move.

[Zanzoobar]

4. It probably wasn't the first time.

Two or three bell ringings would drive a person to this.

[TheMadMonk]

7. No two or three ringings, you pull the batteries and if you must lie in wait...

...you do it with the fucking garden hose.

[Zanzoobar]

9. A stream of water from a garden hose cannot draw blood

Duh!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. Well, most people who chose to get back at ringers use hoses instead of guns.

You disapprove of that?

[Name removed]

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Fourth.

[Zanzoobar]

23. 1st

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. No, not really.

You didn't attack anybody.

4th.

[Zanzoobar]

25. What we have here is a failure to communicate.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Good.

[reACTIONary]

2. Hope he does time (nm)

[MadMaddie]

3. This is what irrational fear does

I am glad the child will live.

[csziggy]

5. I could see getting frustrated but never using a real gun to get back at the pranksters

I'd be more likely to fill a high powered water gun with indelible pink dye. Harmless, but certain to leave a mark.

[TheMadMonk]

6. Um, whoever it was that wanted cites/examples the other day.

How's this? A gun owner who thinks it's perfectly fine to shoot a kid in the back over a fucking prank. Not even a departing Playstation to be seen here.

[provis99]

8. shooting this kid is legal in Texas.

[valerief]

11. In Texas? Really? Of course. Why would I even need to ask? nt

[patrice]

13. That doesn't make it right. nt

[provis99]

14. It's right in Texas.

I've earlier posted the relevant subsections of the Texas self-defense statutes allowing Texans to kill trespassers.

[idiotgardener]

16. For it to be trespass

do you have to have a "No trespassing" sign?

[valerief]

10. It's just gahroovy that guns are sooooo handy dandy for moody folk. nt

[Skip Intro]

12. This was a way over the top reaction, but people should not fuck with other people's property.

Especially their homes. It's fucking dangerous, for starters...

[MattSh]

15. Ringing a doorbell is fucking with other people's property?

Who'd have thought?

:shrug:

[idiotgardener]

17. I made the mistake of reading some of the comments after the article

People claim the kid was harassing the man. If he did it repeatedly, OK... but one time is not harassment.

[hfojvt]

18. I bet some people wanted to

"Let me give you a little tip. When a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun."

[eridani]

19. Jeebus. Hasn't the dipshit ever heard of SuperSoakers? n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Why even have a fucking doorbell, if you're going to shoot anyone who rings it?

Shit, why even have a door?

[quaker bill]

21. I guess he reserves the AR15 and grenade launcher

for groups of kids TP-ing his house... One must use the appropriate weapon for "self defense". (sarcasm)

[BOHICA12]

29. 56 years old??? Did he forget rock salt? nt