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March 25th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
According to the article, the family of the teen who was shot and the man whose house he broke into lived 2 houses apart and didn’t know each other. I doubt that had any direct impact on this specific case, but as a general principal I believe we’d have fewer problems in society if we were all a bit more neighborly.
The article also says the teenager had never been in trouble. I’m fairly certain I’ve never met a 16-year-old who’d go out drinking until 2 am but had never been in any trouble.
March 25th, 2013 at 6:13 pm
Even if the teen was intoxicated, and entered the house by mistake, does not mean that the homeowner was not in danger.
A few years ago when I was living in a an apartment, one of my neighbors got drunk and exited the elevator on the wrong floor. He was very angry that his key no longer worked in the lock of “his” apartment, and started yelling that he was gonna make me sorry if I didn’t open the door immediately. Luckily the concierge arrived and calmed the man down, then led him to his unit.
March 25th, 2013 at 9:02 pm
Odds are you have, you just didn’t know it. I did some (not a lot, but some) under-aged drinking, including being out until very late, and was never caught nor ever got in trouble with the law. I don’t even have a speeding ticket to my name.
March 26th, 2013 at 4:37 am
I’ll take it further, Rob. When I was younger I drank and indulged in “other stuff”, yet I never went to the wrong house when I went home. In fact, I find it hard to believe that someone would go into the wrong house and just keep going up the stairs, etc., without noticing that everything in the house is different.