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fbloogyudsr > wrote:
>"223rem" > wrote
>> fbloogyudsr wrote:
>>> "Scott en Aztlán" > wrote
>>>> Why isn't the surviving punk being investigated for attempted murder?
>>>> If a bottle rocket flies into an open car window and explodes, the
>>>> startled driver is likely to lose control and kill himself and/or
>>>> someone else in the resulting crash.
>>>
>>>
>>> Scott, this is one of your most trollish postings. Get a grip,
>>> consider the motivations of the participants, and get your
>>> head out of your ...
>>
>> Actually he is right. What the two boys did was criminal.
>
>Well, yes. And if you notice I never claimed they weren't.
>But death is not the penalty for malicious mischief, especially
>for juvies.

Nor was death applied as a penalty. The death was accidental. It was
a consequence of the boy running out to the road in response to being
chased -- which itself was a consequence of him firing the bottle
rockets.
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