Balloons filled with syrup sounds fun.

*taking notes*

Just imagine what might have happened if this guy had sent his wives after the boys. More hilarity being Utah?

Your_VCR:

2005-06-15 03:17:40 PM Your_VCR

the 58 year old guy is facing possible charges. its in the first farking paragraph of the article.



ah.. now i see it...
sorry.. kept reading victim and thinking it referred to mr. smashed mouth.

/stupid joke
//oh well

Priapulid

Ummmm why not just call the cops? Take the licence plate down and call the cops.... is it really that difficult?

And tell them what? "He splashed my car with water !"

Better to fark 'em up. I'll bet the man has nothing to take in a law suit anyway so what's the diff?

Some kids threw batteries at my car out of a schoolbus window. *I* calmly followed the bus and called police. The asshat old fart needs to be locked up.

I guess boring stories like mine don't make it to the news.

Man, people really need to pick their fights sometimes. If the water balloons were filled with something damaging, it would be one thing. But to potentially run someone down and almost kill them for a balloon of water really doesn't seem worth it.

almost_infamous
I agree that this particular codger went way over the line, but I'm going to disagree with you on the ass-kicking part. If a stranger throws a water balloon at you, you have the moral right to try to kick their asses.

A water balloon gives you the right to "kick their asses"? That's insane. Lay off the testosterone supplements. Reminds me of drunk bastards in a bar that will try to kick someone's ass for... /gasp... bumping into them.

Fett56

Beer is the best. Couple dozen balloons filled with beer strategically launched onto the patio of a frat house hosting a formal dance is guaranteed hilarity. Trust me, I know.

You better be able to run like the wind, though.

58-years-old = "old codger" ???

God, that makes being 28 feel really old!

We used to fill extra-large heavy duty Glad bags full of water and roll them down a steep hill right onto a busy street. Luckily we never caused a wreck.

Instant Karma, gotta love it.

Karma 1 - Teenage Punks 0

I was shot with rock-salt for throwing water balloons at cars. We were doing exactly what these punks were doing. We nailed an old farmer in his pickup and thought noting of it. About 20 minutes later he showed up parked on the side of the road, crouching down on the other side of his truck holding a shotgun. Of course we didn't see him and we pelted his truck as we passed. He fired on us and hit the truck, me, and my friend, taking paint off the truck and tearing a hole in my jacket and puncturing my skin. I thought it was buckshot of course and I thought I was going to die at the time. Hurt like hell.

if someone throws a water balloon at my car, it might just wash off all the "wash me" slogans fingered into about a years worth of dust. if i stopped the car, it'd only be to let them throw more balloons at it.

I drive in Markham ontario to get to work. This is the worst friggin place in the world to drive. You get guys driving in the wrong lanes (ie: driving west in the east bound lanes), illegal turns...no one signals! I used to get stressed as hell. I'd get to work and it would take me an hour to calm down.

Then I had an epithany. "They're human", dumb at that particular point, but who am I to judge them. (No, I didn't become "born again").

Now I am far less stressed, I simply slow down and let the poor driver get ahead of me and move on with their life.

I feel better, and drink far less coffee now.

rob

patrick767

A water balloon gives you the right to "kick their asses"? That's insane.

Yes, throwing a water balloon at a perfect stranger is a direct invitation to an ass kicking. Everybody knows that. That's why they run when they get caught. If you don't like the rules, don't play the game.

What world do you live in where teenagers throw shiat at people without expecting physical repercussions? I've never visited that world. And I've played on both sides of this game.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....

A kid named Christensen with a broken face, eh?

"Where is Padme?!"

"You killed her with your water balloons..."

/won't do it

I subscribe to the Old-Guy-Overreacted argument, but understand (being a former teenaged boy) that these type of pranks are only thrilling because the consequences if caught are high (arrested, ass kicked, etc.)

Prince of Dweebs

Noooooooooo!

/will do it

Oh please, I don't think you can equate bumping into somebody into a bar with willfully throwing a water balloon from a moving vehicle at another moving vehicle.

Patrick is correct about being hit with a water balloon not giving rise to a moral right to kick the ass of the thrower.


Oh shiat, I tried to stay out of this one. It's a no winner.

Prince Of Dweebs:

A kid named Christensen with a broken face, eh?

"Where is Padme?!"

"You killed her with your water balloons..."



Brilliant....

Throwing a balloon out of a car is called "Launching a missile from a moving vehicle" here in FL and it can cause an accident.

This is a case of asshat vs asshat.

In college we had a water ballon cannon...surgical tubing with a funnel in the middle. We used to get top of a building a block away from a park where hippies used to throw frisbies and launch ballons at them. A friend of ours would sit on his porch and tell us how close we were getting to our targets since all of the shots were blind. Hit one guy in the forehead and was told it looked like the Kennedy assasination. Probably the first water that hippy's body had seen in a week.

gweilo8888

The crash broke every bone in Christensen's face, his mother said

Wow - all thirteen of them?

http://www.sirinet.net/~jgjohnso/skeleton.html

/likes to take English figures of speech literally

As opposed to taking figures of speech in other languages? WTF?

rob.d

The scariest moment of my drivin life was driving in an Asian Mall in Markham, I was almost t-boned 3 times in two minutes! I know your pain!

As someone who had snowballs pelted at his vehicle by several people for no reason in high school, I'm with the old guy 100%. Tough shiat for the kid who broke his face.

For all those who think the guy should be locked up, what if the baloon hit his truck, causing him to react instantly, swerve out of control and break his face?

Those kids learned a lesson they will never forget. Forget the police. Darwin taught them a lesson.

I have to say that I'd probably come damn near to wrecking if I was going at any appreciable speed and someone nailed me with a water balloon I didn't see coming. Which is why I'm glad the little farkers got what they did.

The guy didn't have to chase them... but they didn't have to run, either. There were six of 'em for Christ's sake. Six teenage punks can't take one fifty year old man? It's not like he's Cain from Kung-Fu.

Of course, around these parts (Tennessee), you don't throw shiat at moving vehicles because most old codgers are well armed. I've known many an old coot who didn't drive anywhere without a loaded handgun on the seat beside them.

About 8 years ago, my best friend and I were driving around our podunk town looking for something to do.

"i wish some little farker would throw a snowball at my car so I could chase them down" I said, while driving along the base of a large embankment.

"that'd be farking hilarious." Tom said, not knowing whether or not I was serious.

Just then, SMASH, an icechunk slammed into my windshield. I locked up the brakes, spun around and screeched to a halt at the base of the embankment. The snow was at least knee deep as I attempted to streak up the hillside toward the young offenders.

As I reached the summit, I could see two lads walking hurriedly about 75 yards away.

"Stop right there!" I screamed. They did.

I approached them deliberately, cracking nuckles, swinging at the air, etc.. Chewed their asses, and then laughed the whole way back to the car. Don't think they did that again.


/ask and ye shall receive

We used to climb on top of the building on "Grand street" where everyone cruised on friday and Sat. nights, then chunk Water Ballons at cars.(mostly other teens)

never once did we think that someone might see us, and park at the bottom of the fire escape (only way down) and kick our ass's

I thought Darwinisms were situations where people remover themselves from the genepool, rather than being run off the road by others. That's just murder or manslaughter, right?

/maybe someone thinks it was ironic?

I was shot with rock-salt for throwing water balloons at cars

what exactly is is rock salt for in a shotgun? or was it just so it would hurt more in your wounds? (also did that happen in killbill?)

The guy was a freakin zealot. He should have tailed them from a distance, followed them home and unleashed the holy hell that would of been their parents (hopefully).

That article took an ugly turn at the end.

The crash broke every bone in Christensen's face, his mother said...

darwin trifecta is in play.

What a bunch of damn pussies. In my day, we went out and stole fire extinguishers that had water in them and then drove around all night spraying people. People walking down the street, sitting on bus benches, stopped at lights.

The only time we resorted to water ballons was when we launched them into another school's quad from a giant slingshot several blocks away.

Ah, good times...

"Ummmm why not just call the cops? Take the licence plate down and call the cops.... is it really that difficult?"

Because the Cops are too busy sitting on their lard asses at Dunkin Donuts and hitting the hookers during their lunch breaks to give a fark...

Gather round kiddies let me tell ya a story.
when I was about 15, me and 4 of my friends where hanging out in my tree house, right next to a horse corral smokin the weed. All of a sudden we witnessed a horse unload a nice pile of fresh steamin road apples. Jimmy, the alpha male in our little group who thought he was a real hard ass (this was in the 70's) said "who's got the balls to pick up one of those and throw it at a car" long story short, we all had the balls and let loose with a hail storm from both sides of the road at the first car/truck that came by. To our horror the truck locked em' up and 4 construction worker dudes jumped out and starded chasing us in all directions. This being in the mountains and my home turf I was able to lose my persuer and climb a tall pine tree. From there I got to witness big bad Jimmy being drug by his hair back towards thier truck whilst being literally kicked in the arse, sniviling and crying for his life. He was the only one they cought. He wound up with horse shiate rubbed in his face and hair.
Good Times!

Old codger rules!!!!!!

I was in a riding in a truck when somebody in another moving car threw a water balloon at us....Yah, it smashed the windshield and lacerated my face....little punks..

Thank god we were in a small town and only driving 50km/h...otherwise we probably would've been killed...

HAHA! .. good. F_U_C_K_E_R_s

2005-06-15 03:48:56 PM BatFang [TotalFark]

I was shot with rock-salt for throwing water balloons at cars

what exactly is is rock salt for in a shotgun? or was it just so it would hurt more in your wounds? (also did that happen in killbill?)

Rock salt in a shotgun is the original less lethal round. Bullets and shotgun pellets/slugs are made out of heavy metals, usually lead, but also regular and tungsten steel. Their weight allows them to retain the energy from the powder expoision and transfer it to the target to do damage at greater distances.

By reducing the weight of the projectiles, i.e. rock salt, you have much less chance of doing serious damage at distance, and it hurts like a son of a biatch if it penetrates the skin. At close range, it can be just as lethal as lead or steel shot.

Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

"what exactly is is rock salt for in a shotgun? or was it just so it would hurt more in your wounds?"
DING! DING! DING! We have a winnner!
Old codger who used to own the junkyard near my town used the same ammunition. I never got hit, but had a few friends get it....IN THE END!!! BWAAHAHAHAH!!
You hear that bang and that salt skittering across the old cars and whatever else it hits, it'll make ya pick em up and put em down!!
As my Dad told me in all seriousness, "dont mess with old farts, they don't play games"
/has settled down since then.
//some

nice work, delphis. way to fark the system. There's a fine line between stupid and clever, and you're stomping all over the stupid side.

Go take another "what are you" quiz limey.

For anyone too lazy to RTFA, here's the summary. 6 kids threw a water baloon from their truck to another oncomming Nissan truck.

That must have been a big balloon.