Boy stabs mom in back with a knife, to prevent DUI

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I think i need to read the paper more often, i never know what's happening in my own city ... O.O

Since this happened in Canada, I'm sure Video Games won't be blamed for this, us Canucks have some common sense in our media >.>

 

[dthvirus]

So, was he on her side or not? /lameTF2joke

 

[Threx]

I just saw this article on my home page:
Link [http://autos.sympatico.ca/automotive-news/3501/boy-throws-knife-at-mom-to-prevent-dui]

So, what's up with that? I think the kid has his heart in the right place - that is, to try and prevent drunk driving -

I completely agree with you, but I think that the DUI thing was a cover up I bet that they got in a fight and he stabbed his mother but for fear of losing her son she said that he was trying to do a good thing for her.

 

[Chipperz]

Right? Wrong? Who gives a shit? That's a helluva shot to make with a kitchen knife.

Is it bad that was my first thought, too?

Besides, maybe that was all he had to hand? It's why we keep a bolas and two nunchuks near our front door. I doubt I could hit anything with them at a ranged of more than about 4 feet, but I'm sure watching a bolas fly past your head will make you think twice about driving drunk. Or something.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Well...at least he tried. Still, a knife, dude? Why not a spoon?

 

[Indecizion]

Wow that kid must have an epic Ballistic skill, and yeah i think extreme methods but noone died which is better than what could have happened.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

I live in this city. Worse things happen.

 

[RanD00M]

That kid had a chaotic good motive.Sure,he had to injure his own mother.But in the regard,he probably saved here's and some other lives.

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

I'm surprised he was able to throw a knife in the first place.

You can't just toss any old kitchen knife and expect it to hit point first, especially at someone running.

Beginners luck can be a real ***** sometimes XD

 

[TurtleBlob]

So ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?

That deserves 42 points of awesome.

and my avatar.

OT: Looks like our victim *puts on sunglasses* got thrown off her game. Yeaaaaah!

 

[Treblaine]

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[MissGinaKid]

It could be he had little other choice. Stabbing her in the right place is guaranteed to not kill her, but if she got in an automobile drunk, she could have very easily killed a child, another motorist, or an entire family on the road even mere blocks from their house, before police would arrive to try to find the car and its license plate number.

You can't reason or rationalize with a drunk person, especially a self-centered one that wouldn't even listen if sober.

Stabbing is safer than bludgeoning or anesthetizing with drugs too, maybe next time he should get a tazer; but since he probably didn't have one, a shallow cut with a disinfected blade would certainly get across the point.

You sir have made the bast case for this kid. Who i am looking at as a hero for knowing his mom could hurt someone and stoped it. I just hope the mothers condishion doesn't get worse or he would be in alot of trouble.

 

[FrossetMareritt]

Whilst I think this is sensible and effective advice for the Marine corps, and can see the parallels between the situations, I think it cannot be smoothly implemented amongst civies.

Largely because panicking 14 year old boys and drunken mothers are generally as dumb as mud.

I completely agree. Things that work well in the military do not necessarily translate over into the 'real world.' However, I think SadisticDarkling has a point about this being a few bad circumstances (or choices in this case) happening at one moment to make an even larger bad circumstance.

I will say that it really is the lesser of two evils. Would she rather get a wound and (hopefully) learn a lesson about DWI or would she rather regret the (possible) life that she would have taken (by hitting someone with her vehicle) for the rest of her life?

It's really the "Lifetime Idea": "If Lifetime can make a depressing as hell movie on my choice, should I still do it?" Mind you that it's the movie where the protagonist just laments the entire time over what he/she did and nothing really happens even at the end.

 

[Klarinette]

Oh dear =/ Good intention, bad reaction.

 

[mechanixis]

What'd he follow up with, shooting someone in the stomach to stop their overeating?

Hey, with this kid's methodology, at least he didn't rig the car with a bomb.

 

[lwm3398]

Reminds me of a 'Lawful-Stupid' Paladin I used to play D&D with...

I played a Chaotic-Chaotic rouge, myself. Wanna argue if that exists? 'Coz I will light this ***** up. *holds Molotov Cocktail* But only to prevent a flame war, of course. I'd never blow something up for no reason...

Is my metaphor gotten? I'm not saying this is the case, but it is a possibility.

You can drive with flats.

And that would be okay, you would be forced to go relatively slow with four flats. Then again, she'd still be drunk, so there is the chance she'd be going lane-to-lane and get hit.

Did he try just threatening her, do you think, before he was forced to stop her by using it?

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

Whilst I think this is sensible and effective advice for the Marine corps, and can see the parallels between the situations, I think it cannot be smoothly implemented amongst civies.

Largely because panicking 14 year old boys and drunken mothers are generally as dumb as mud.

I completely agree. Things that work well in the military do not necessarily translate over into the 'real world.' However, I think SadisticDarkling has a point about this being a few bad circumstances (or choices in this case) happening at one moment to make an even larger bad circumstance.

Yeah. A lot of bad choices probably were made that will fall outside of the scope of any investigation. Probably a lot of small and, on their own, completely harmless things. This frames it like it was some action sequence from a film instead of something that could similarly happen to anybody who has family, which is tragic. These people should be treated with some degree of empathy instead of a freakshow.

 

[PunchClockVillain]

It could be he had little other choice. Stabbing her in the right place is guaranteed to not kill her, but if she got in an automobile drunk, she could have very easily killed a child, another motorist, or an entire family on the road even mere blocks from their house, before police would arrive to try to find the car and its license plate number.

You can't reason or rationalize with a drunk person, especially a self-centered one that wouldn't even listen if sober.

Stabbing is safer than bludgeoning or anesthetizing with drugs too, maybe next time he should get a tazer; but since he probably didn't have one, a shallow cut with a disinfected blade would certainly get across the point.

You sir have made the bast case for this kid. Who i am looking at as a hero for knowing his mom could hurt someone and stoped it. I just hope the mothers condishion doesn't get worse or he would be in alot of trouble.

I'm with these guys. I'm guessing most of this is because it was a knife and she had to go to the hospital. What would have happened if he just tackled her or maybe took her leg out?

 

[Aimless Flea]

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