Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently

This is so freaking real. Some old folks seem to want that kids just stay still in silence like a furniture when they're bored. No playing outside cuz "is annoying and dangerous", not playing with their phones cuz "is unhealthy and dangerous".

What the hell should they do then?!

I remember quite a few adults telling me that children should be seen, not heard when I was little. It was popular and sucked.
- So there was this...what do you call it, lady who was very annoyed at any noise ever. Once she pulled a kitchen knife at us. Well well would you know that all parents and grandmas pulled legal action against that.
- never heard this one but its the sort of thing that would get me to hide out of pure unadultered spit.
A lot of people just hate kids. It's a big problem
Build a nuke in the backyard, obviously
- The reference: nuclear Boy Scout
Invest in real estate.
Get a job

So this reminds me of when I was taking my CCW class and going over hypotheticals and legal ramifications.

One scenario was you see a kid opening your fridge would you shoot the kid. Now there was a church group there that was also taking the class with us and a few of them raised their hands and one was called.

His answer was yes.

My group I was with all looked at each other and went WTF and just shook our heads, raised our hands and went of freaking course not because morally it would be soooo wrong even if it was legally okay.

I'm from Texas and can count the number of responsible gun owners with one hand. I understand why we need to be armed; still there are a lot of people that shouldn't. Your story reminds of that shooting that happened at a church that happen to have the good guy with a gun ^tm. There was some talk about allowing some people to be armed at the church I was going to with my parents at the time. Some members and the pastor went to some event with a lawyer talking about some stuff around it and I joined out of curiosity. The overall meeting was pretty mehh, but there was a nice tangent about how much you can drink and still have your gun and ammo. Some cop that was in attendance tried to call them stupid, but they pushed back that its okay if you only drink such percent drink per hour or remove the receiver. Not a great look for the cream of the crop.
Not according to the bible. Elisha called bears to maul kids for making fun of his bald head.

Well duh. Play outside... Somewhere else! :P

They should play in the park.
But also...

Cass said the boy’s death did not appear to involve self-defense because the shooting “wasn’t close to the house.”

JFC..

As ding-dong-ditch pranks surged after being posted to TikTok, other injuries have been documented in recent years.

Yeah.... boy what did we ever do without tiktok lol. Fuck off.

Ding dong ditching used to surge whenever that one episode of the Simpsons played.
Because kids will be kids.
The injuries and deaths seem more linked to adults losing their God damn minds watching Fox News

Lmao as if boomers are that young..

I think boomer has morphed to fit a certain selection of people which basically means 'old and out of touch'.
- Boomer is no longer a age range, it's a personality.
  Like Karen.

To be fair it was a millenial (42 year old) who did that. Still horrible. But yeah.

I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don't want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.
- It's more than just dumb. It's senseless. You gotta divorce yourselves from the love of the gun, cause this is never going to stop until you do. If it's acceptable to you, carry on. Nothing to see here.

This is the first thing I saw on Lemmy today and it made my morning, thank you lol

Replace the gun with a car.

How much of the "outside" can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.

I don't understand how we accepted that as normal.

Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.

Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.

Bad straw man, bad.
- Not really, no.
  Firearms and cars are the top two causes of death for children in the USA.
  Source

Man... My parents used to kick us outta the house in the morning. They would tell us we could come back inside for lunch around noon but then we had to leave again. We would bike around and get into all kind of shenanigans. Call them from a payphone and instead of saying our name for the call we would just tell them where we were super fast and then they would hear that and decline the call lmao.

As long as we came home before the sun went down or we called them from a friend's house to get approval for a sleep over they didn't really care what we did all day. Good times.

Now the kids who got to do.that put GPS trackers in their shoes

Referencing this

I'm noticing a trend of no-context posts just assuming everyone just read/watched literally the same story as OP did.

meme is killing it.

Carl, of all people? 😂

He absolutely wouldn't tolerate happy children outside of his property.
- Especially if they're in his friggin pool
- Two scenes after Carl is mildly inconvenienced by happy children:
  "Hey where everybody going? The party's just getting started!" As he's surrounded by 3 whoorse he'd enlisted for the evening. Each more busted than the last.
https://youtu.be/oWaVYVJ02Ik

American boomers*

Cursed country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY

I did this a lot as a kid. One time I went too far and my neighbor threw me up on a fence. He told me if I ever did it again, he would whip me with a belt.

Jesus Christ! That's ridiculous. I am so sorry.
- I kinda deserved it. We were doing that shit at 2 am.

gex

Ding Dong ditch was knocking or ringing the doorbell and hauling ass away. These dipshits were beating and kicking on the door in a state where you can legally shoot through the door. Agree or disagree with that but if you live there you shouldn't be so stupid.

These dipshits were beating and kicking on the door
Where did you read that? All I've read so far was that they knocked and ran.
- It was stated in the very first article I read. It was a local news site.
  I went back and looked again Someone posted another incident along side this one from Kentucky. https://www.wlky.com/article/teens-target-homes-douglass-hills-tiktok-ding-dong-ditch-prank/65961850
You got a source on that? Depending on the time of night that changes the story a lot.
- I went back and looked again Someone posted another incident along side this one from Kentucky. https://www.wlky.com/article/teens-target-homes-douglass-hills-tiktok-ding-dong-ditch-prank/65961850

Only if you're black or brown.

I mean if you try this in Texas, that's on you. It's front page news like every day.

Yeah, we know Texans are immoral, irresponsible gun owners.
Yeah how fucking old were you when you started reading the newspaper genius??
- websites have pages don't they

Grandad plays GTA irl and you just complain.

Coming from the generation that started that game, lmao.

Ding Dong Death