Ding-Dong DEAD - Childhood Prank Turns Shockingly Violent

Ding dong bitch you let me ring you, bitch.

Ding dong bitch, you now end up in a ditch.

My pranks were better

"Prince Albert in can" is far less risky.

WTF was an 11-year old doing out at 11 pm??? At that age, I'd have been in bed for 3 hours!!

Mom was right. Nothing good happens after 10 pm.

Love living in a High Trust Society

This is the radio station doing the GRAB THE PIZZA contest. If you can answer a skill testing question you win a free Pizza. But you must also grab the pizza and slam your door.

3+3 = what?

Remember, when the pizza arrives, grab it, say FUCK YOU ? And slam your door

Playing pranks on armed psychos in the middle of the night is a Tiktok trend?

He had some great jokes and a cute lunch box but couldn’t live forever.

Trump's America!

It's Texas, Jake.

He'll be 100% acquitted, get a new career from the incident, and the kid's parent(s) will be dragged through the mud.

I kind of worry about this with my dad who has rapidly progressing dementia. He would never do it on purpose, but he has a gun (of course) & is paranoid AF due to watching Newsmax all day and is mostly deaf. I worry about him getting confused & startled and popping off the handyman or some other person that might catch him unaware. Given the number of heavily armed & paranoid seniors, it's a kind of a wonder it doesn't happen. more

[quote]WTF was an 11-year old doing out at 11 pm??? At that age, I'd have been in bed for 3 hours!!

Same here, R4. Unless it was a Friday or Saturday, weekends we could stay up until 9 PM.

R10 - the shooter isn’t white. With his last name, he’ll be lucky if he isn’t sentenced to “going away forever without a trace” to Guatemala.

R11, a piece of advice: find the gun (and/or ammo) and hide it/lock it up from Dad. You don't want to spend his senior years — or yours — visiting the state prison.

R11 this was a big concern of mine, but for different reasons. My dad had a handgun in the house and my mom had dementia. At one point she fled from the house and ran to the neighbors house claiming my dad was trying to kill her. He was arrested and later released but I worried about some kind of murder suicide situation. (They had a combative relationship even when she was well)

A bit of an overreaction. Honestly, I never open or respond to strangers at my door. I look out the peep hole. Don't recognize them? Nope. If I'm expecting a delivery I'll get a notification on my phone.

R13 - The “victim” (Julian Guzman) wasn’t White either, so they’ll call it a wash and move on.

It reflects badly on the parents to have absolute strangers disciplining their offspring.

It’s Texas, dahling. Shoot first and ask questions later!

Shooter has been identified. Where’s Momma’s Mussy now?

I can imagine how frightened my mother would have been at her home alone at this time of night if someone rang, pounded or kicked her door. Of course, kids do dumb stuff, but in a country where too may people own guns, I would teach my kids that anyone might shoot if you trespass on their property. Teach them that in the same way they all learned "stranger danger". Last year dumb kids died doing the Tide Pod challenge. This year they are shot playing ding dong ditch. We live in a crazy world. They are not changing the gun laws any time soon. So for survival, the parents must teach kids not to fuck around and find out life's lessons this way. So incredibly sad.

They will keep postponing or appealing until this guy is freed. He won't do much time. Texas.

Wow I guess no more kids will be kids

R21 seems to think kids always listen to their parents 🤔

Weird that some unhinged loon shoots a kid and the reaction is like "Why was the kid out at 11?" and not "Why do people think it's okay to shoot someone who rang your doorbell?"

R24, the two questions are not mutually exclusive. I posted the question about the kid being out 11 pm. Since there are gun laws, the best way to avoid something like this is to make sure your kids are safe. You don't know what others may do so you need to watch out for yourself and family.

A few years ago, a young woman was shot by a homeowner because the car she was riding it got lost and turned around in his driveway. He shot first and asked questions later.

r11 Take the bullets!

When I was in 6th grade, we'd occasionally sneak out just to meet up at a neighbor's - not often, but once in a while. We were actually very innocent kids just being goofy pre-teens. This is horrifying.

[quote]A bit of an overreaction. Honestly, I never open or respond to strangers at my door. I look out the peep hole. Don't recognize them? Nope. If I'm expecting a delivery I'll get a notification on my phone.

Same with me. If I'm not expecting any visitors, I'm not opening my door to anyone. It's a precaution for the times we are currently living in, nothing more. Years ago, when I used to answer the door to strangers it was always some guy dressed as a construction worker, who didn't know how to string a sentence together, but told me that 'his company was putting a new roof today on a house a block away and they ordered extra shingles by accident.' Did I want them to stop by my house and re-roof my house for a great deal ?

If he was unattractive, I'd say 'no' and shut the door.

If he was handsome and hunky (and I'd get quite a few of those) I'd give him more time by asking him one of two questions which he couldn't answer, so I'd shut the door:

1. You're in the roofing business? And you chose my house with a year-old-roof on it to see if I want a new one ? You're in the business and couldn't tell from looking at my roof it was new ?

2. The house on the next street over around the block ? Which street is that ? I just came back from walk around the neighborhood and didn't see any roofing company putting a roof on a house. Which address did you do ?

They couldn't answer either question so I'd quietly shut the door.

Where's his gofundme?

The shooter, not the dead kid. You know there's one somewhere.

In my youth, we would TP—toilet paper a house. No one can afford that prank these days.

Considering the likelihood of being shot if ringing the doorbell without prior notice, delivery services should have the protocol of only calling the customer and telling them they have arrived.

[quote] "Why do people think it's okay to shoot someone who rang your doorbell?"

There are a lot of “why” questions in life and for many of them the answer is that it just is. The best thing to do is to be aware that this happens and to avoid the situation.

R31 I haven't seen a delivery person ring a doorbell and wait for the homeowner to answer in years. All UPS/EDEX/Amazon/ USPS / Instacart / GrubHub / Doordash /Ubereats delivered are dropped off in the vicinity of a doorway (usually front steps or backstops). A photo is taken and the driver is off. My neighbor orders My neighbor gets meals delivered often because of her busy schedule. She gets pissed off when the drivers leave her dinners or pizzas out side on the steps, so all the bugs can get to it first. She requests on her order they ring her bell and hand deliver to her, but no one does - and she tips them generously.

Do people even think before they do things? The YouTube cop videos illustrate that few have reasoning, restraint or impulse control. You can't chase people and shoot them in the back.

[quote]You can't chase people and shoot them in the back.

Tell me you've never been to Florida or Texas without telling me you've never been to Florida or Texas.

r35 or Jersey

Couldn’t he have just called him and asked if his refrigerator was running?