I read a story about a Willmar Minnesota man being charged with assault after spraying some teens with Fox Urine..
Read the Story Here .
Seems he got a little tired of having toilet paper being draped all over his yard as he was a common target for teenage pranksters. So using night vision goggles and a super-soaker filled with the Fox Piss, he decided to get the upper hand on them one night and decided to douse the teens with the fox pee.
As the story outlines, the man was accosted from behind and a struggle ensued, apprarently someones finger got broken, the homeowner is the one whom reported the incident to the police.
What I dont understand is why the man is getting charged..
Lets look at some facts here:
- Just because teens will be teens and commit pranks, does not mean homeowners “HAVE TO” endure these pranks.
- Every homeowner has a right to defend their property, I doubt any of these teens pay this mans mortgage or property taxes.
- If this had happened in a more urban setting, these teens could have faced the business end of a firearm.
- If the teens felt they had a right to trespass on the property of another, then the property owner had every right to make the teens experience more memorable by giving them a smell they would not soon forget.
- If the teens were choking this man, as the story suggests, then a broken finger isnt nothing.
When I was a teen, I was very much involved with pranks, toilet papering, throwing snowballs at peoples doors, knocking on doors/ringing doorbells and running etc.. I used to be a newspaper delivery boy for a Washington DC area newspaper, afternoon deliveries during the week and morning deliveries on the weekends, on the weekends I was generally delivering my route between 5am and 7am. I decided to be cute by flattening the mail box of a person on one of the streets on my route, he was not a customer of mine, but I faithfully flattened it every saturday and sunday morning over the course of a few weeks. He always straightened it out and in that time, once replaced it, yet I still flattened it out, even the replacement. Eventually he did the math and figured it all out that it was happening on a set pattern and not randomly. So one morning he got up early and waited, sure enough I come along and I flatten the mailbox again, this time he popped up from behind some bushes and busted me.. He was rather cool about it, he could have called the police and would have been right to do so, he went on to tell me that when he was my age, he did the same sort of things.. He made a deal with me, he gave me 2 weeks to give him $15 to cover the cost of a new mailbox, in return he would not tell my customers on the street or my parents, DEAL! I gave him the money within a week and from that point forward I grew up and my prank days were done. He even subscribed to the newspaper!!
With this toilet papering/Fox pee incident, there is no way the victim should be charged given the facts I read all this does is send the message to teenagers that they can carry out these pranks with no fear of punishment be making their victims responsible for their pranks.
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You did not give enough on the event to make any kind of judgement. You said he was "accosted" from behind. That could be an attack, or nothing more than someone seeing him and asking, "What's up dude?" No judgement can be made from this. No legitimate judgement.
Oh, the link to the story didn't work.
I am sure the links aged out already from the original sources. He was attacked from behind if that helps you. I seem to remember since then, the man lost the case, although unclear as to what penalty he paid. Either way the case just proves to some degree that it is ok to do the things these teens were doing.