I don't think that anybody has said that their car is worth more than the kid's skull.


However, many of us realise that we are only hearing the kid's version of events. So there is probably more to this than has been reported.

I feel little sympathy for the kid. Motorists have been killed by kids throwing stones at cars.

Unless the police catch the driver, we will never know the truth. Even then, we may not be much the wiser.

Don
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I disagree to an extent, do you think the victims compensation, if any at all or, the perpetrators punishment would have covered the drivers costs or act as a deterrent - NO it wouldn't. If a few more people got a right good pasting for acting like a tt maybe they would think twice before doing it again. A fractured skull is a tad extreme but a good slap to do what the judicial system can't/wont do is fare game


I bet he tried to act the hard man too, when the driver stopped he/they fronted up to him gave him some (racial) abuse rather than legging it.

This I believe is the point that has been missed.

I was certainly no little angle when young but one thing I didn't do was fk about with things that could cause serious immediate harm.

Throwing stones at load of broken glass panes in an allotment, whilst certainly a stupid act, is nothing like throwing them at a 1.5 tonne moving object which may or may not be under the control of a Little Old Lady or Baz the Bruiser.

Did the kid deserve a wallop? Most certainly. Did they or the driver deserve it to be more than a sting and a few minutes of "Aww my head hurts!" No.

As ever no one is a winner, all are losers, yet none of it would have happened if the promising footballer had been playing football, not chucking stones at cars.

You are correct. That isn't to say though that they wouldn't get a thick ear. Oh sorry, I can't do that anymore either. How about a slap on the wrist. Oh controversial, can't leave any marks or else that would be illegal.

So we will just put up with strongly worded complaints and emotional attacks that play on their weaker mental powers. Physical punishment is not allowed. Mental torture is approved of.

What a fked up society we have created.

Spot on.

No different to admonishing another driver over their driving. You had better expect a reaction and be prepared for it to be way ott.

The sooner more people get that, the sooner more will go about their business without feeling they can intrude on the lives of others without any fear of the consequences.

What was their intent in causing the accident? Was it clearly done deliberately, for a laugh, or is it possible that it was an honest mistake?

If he hadn't have been chucking mud etc at cars, he wouldn't have ended up in the situation he did; it was his own fault.

To those saying we should 'improve the court process' is absurd. It would never have gotten to court, in fact IF the Police had turned up and IF they had caught the scrote, he would've been released with nothing more than a ticking off. He'd mentally flick the V's at the Police and the motorist and carry on being a .

Next time he'll think before invoking the anger of someone who otherwise would have never entered his life.

First you said: "If you decide to enter someone else's life through your actions, beware there may be consequences."

You then followed it up with: "Once you have taken an action against someone else, you have entered their life in some way. In some circumstances that will result in nothing, in others it will result in consequences far beyond what you could imagine - as in this case."

The example given by me fits your criteria; the person pulling out has entered another's life by their actions and it has resulted in a consequence. I am merely posing what people would see as reasonable within the confines of a scenario you set up.

Now you are going beyond the facts we have to hand and are describing the teenager's actions as "A pre-determined act against another driver [which] is something totally different [to my scenario]".

Notwithstanding I cannot see how the teenager in this case was "another driver", seeming the child is unlikely to be a motorist, your ever evolving posts on the subject only highlight the lack of thought in your original point of view.

As a principle it is neither morally nor legally right to suggest that once you have committed a minor wrong against a another that, effectively, all bets are off in relation to their counter actions against you. There are certain and limited circumstances in which force can be used lawfully against another. Having mud thrown at your car is not one of them.

In other words, normal people should live in fear of thugs?

If I'm walking along my street at home and someone drops litter, it is MY fault if I point it out to the person who dropped it and they take offence and hit me?

Is that the world you want to live in? Or enjoy living in? Thugs' paradise.

And you would of stayed calm if the 15 year old scrote decided to throw a punch?? (we don't know the full story but I can guess what the driver was met with when he got out the car)