Hey y'all, I just read an article in a magazine, and it made me think, especially since the subject was familiar, namely bullying. The article was written about a swedish small town called Rödeby, a place that's not realy rural nor urban. Long story short, the whole place had been constantly messed with by teens who went around on their mopeds and terrorized people for the lulz. Especially much had a family of four, a father, a mother, a daughter and a son, been subjected to harrassment by the same little "gang", mostly because the son, who was 18, was slightly mentally retarded. They had repeatedly driven up beside him while he was out driving his moped and tried to push him off the road, and did almost the same thing to his father, who suffers from ADHD, tourettes and a few other conditions, only they opened a door on his car while it was moving. On a crowded road.
When he heard of this, the daughter's boyfriend got mighty pissed about this and hit the leader of the gang in the head, then left before he did something drastic. The leader brought his little "gang" to the family's farm, because he didn't know who had hit him, and now they gathered outside the house, improvising striking tools they found in the family's garage, in the middle of the night. They harrassed the son on the phone and said "we're outside now", and the father woke up, and being a experienced and skilled hunter, took a shotgun with him to defend himself if necessary. A "gang"-member approached their main door. They were distracted a moment by the mother of the house pulling up into the driveway, and the father then stepped outside on the stairs. The 15-16 year old kids (all about 6 of them) turned back to face the house. The father instinctively shot the closest one in the arm, and followed up in less than a second by shooting the leader, who turned to run away in the back. He crawls to under a tree to try and hide and gather himself again. The boy who was shot in the arm attempted to run away, but the father loaded the shotgun again and chased him down and shot him dead, before breaking down in a fit of angst while the rest of the "gang" fled.
Huge discussions rose up after this, and the father admitted that he was genuinely sorry, but that he did it in self-defense. Due to his conditions, he was let go in court, although he had to pay both of the boys he shot's families.
This gang, and especially the leader, had been a special problem a very very long time and continually harrassed the family especially, but also the community as a whole. Due to being under 18 though, the police could do very little about them.
So discuss: did the father act right? How far can you go to defend yourself and your family?
When he heard of this, the daughter's boyfriend got mighty pissed about this and hit the leader of the gang in the head, then left before he did something drastic. The leader brought his little "gang" to the family's farm, because he didn't know who had hit him, and now they gathered outside the house, improvising striking tools they found in the family's garage, in the middle of the night. They harrassed the son on the phone and said "we're outside now", and the father woke up, and being a experienced and skilled hunter, took a shotgun with him to defend himself if necessary. A "gang"-member approached their main door. They were distracted a moment by the mother of the house pulling up into the driveway, and the father then stepped outside on the stairs. The 15-16 year old kids (all about 6 of them) turned back to face the house. The father instinctively shot the closest one in the arm, and followed up in less than a second by shooting the leader, who turned to run away in the back. He crawls to under a tree to try and hide and gather himself again. The boy who was shot in the arm attempted to run away, but the father loaded the shotgun again and chased him down and shot him dead, before breaking down in a fit of angst while the rest of the "gang" fled.
Huge discussions rose up after this, and the father admitted that he was genuinely sorry, but that he did it in self-defense. Due to his conditions, he was let go in court, although he had to pay both of the boys he shot's families.
This gang, and especially the leader, had been a special problem a very very long time and continually harrassed the family especially, but also the community as a whole. Due to being under 18 though, the police could do very little about them.
So discuss: did the father act right? How far can you go to defend yourself and your family?
