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you have no idea
February 05, 2008 | 11:18 AM
I actually know all of the kids involved and the incident occurred about 300 yards from my house. The kid is not a bad kid and now whenever he applies for a job and his emplyer googles his name he will find this article that portrays him as a remorseless child hunter. I also know the 10 and 11 year old boys involved whose ages actually range from 11 - 13 and I would be willing to bet that they egged him on and were having fun with the incident. They play paintball all of the time and shoot at each other, and now they get to go to school and brag about how they are in the news. I have a sibling that rides the bus with the "hunted hostages" aand all they do now is brag about how they got a kid arrested. By the way this kid is a good student, plays on the school soccer team, and by no means is scary looking or would have any possibility of a psychiopathic disorder.
Faults:
Ages of children
they lined up on a basketball court not a tennis court
he did not hunt them,
the "hunted" children would never say that they were treated as hostages
they did not "escape the attack", he let them run away if they stopped screaming
fellow student
What are you talking about?
January 29, 2008 | 03:29 PM
The site says that all these reports are comiled from public record. So this was taken directly from a police report. Hardly hearsay, PBMI.
So what, the young kids and police are just making up the story that this kid pelted children with paintballs? Supplied the evidence to cooraborate it?
And the fact that police were creeped out by this kid? Come on, that's something truly frightening!
I think you need to be more informed about this kid and the emergence of possibly sociopathic behavior.
Muppet
January 29, 2008 | 02:24 AM
Terrorizing 10 and 11 year olds, give him jail time
George Georgio
Stop talking.
January 28, 2008 | 10:23 PM
If you want to express your feelings do so, but stop swearing like a fool.
Above that
January 28, 2008 | 10:21 PM
It is safe to say that regrettably a teenage boy made bad decision here; however, the whole story is not there and I'm sorry but your article is extremely biased. As a journalist it is your job to write using an informed opinion and I can tell you very extreme confidence that yours is not, please next time research your topic before writing articles such as this, for they do nothing but destroy a person's reputation. It may also help your article to talk to people actually involved in the incident rather than basing your story on hearsay.
please be more informed
