Florida Kids In The News: WTF?

[Tennesseer]

Florida man took his son on paintball ‘drive by,’ police said. The boy, 10, ended up shot with a real gun.

As Michael Williams drove past a gathering in the yard of an Opa-locka, Fla., home on Sunday night, police said, his 10-year-old son fired a barrage of paintballs into the crowd from inside his father’s van.

It was the 10-year-old’s idea, police later said: He’d asked his dad if he would take him on a “drive by shooting” with his paintball gun, and Williams, 26, allegedly said yes.

But as the paintballs peppered the crowd, at least one of the victims thought the gunshots were real. So the man pulled out his own gun and fired a single bullet at the van — wounding the young boy and sending him to the hospital.

Opa-locka police later arrested Williams on a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm, the Miami Herald reported. In a police report, detectives alleged the father “acted recklessly by agreeing to conduct a drive by paintball shooting,” the newspaper reported.

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[Tennesseer]

And then there are these two kids.

12-year-old, 14-year-old engage in shootout with Florida deputies after home break-in

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were in a shootout with deputies Tuesday night in Volusia County, arming themselves with weapons belonging to a house they had broken into.

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[andi9899]

WTF is the matter with people?!

[Tennesseer]

Jun 2, 2021 9:49:04 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

WTF is the matter with people?!

You might have missed my second story above you post. We posted at the same time.

[daisylu]

Jun 2, 2021 9:45:00 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Florida man took his son on paintball ‘drive by,’ police said. The boy, 10, ended up shot with a real gun.

As Michael Williams drove past a gathering in the yard of an Opa-locka, Fla., home on Sunday night, police said, his 10-year-old son fired a barrage of paintballs into the crowd from inside his father’s van.

It was the 10-year-old’s idea, police later said: He’d asked his dad if he would take him on a “drive by shooting” with his paintball gun, and Williams, 26, allegedly said yes.

But as the paintballs peppered the crowd, at least one of the victims thought the gunshots were real. So the man pulled out his own gun and fired a single bullet at the van — wounding the young boy and sending him to the hospital.

Opa-locka police later arrested Williams on a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm, the Miami Herald reported. In a police report, detectives alleged the father “acted recklessly by agreeing to conduct a drive by paintball shooting,” the newspaper reported.

Complete article here: link

Who could NOT see that coming? Dad is an asshole for agreeing to do it in the first place, people like that need to not have children.

[Tennesseer]

Jun 2, 2021 9:52:43 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Jun 2, 2021 9:45:00 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Florida man took his son on paintball ‘drive by,’ police said. The boy, 10, ended up shot with a real gun.

As Michael Williams drove past a gathering in the yard of an Opa-locka, Fla., home on Sunday night, police said, his 10-year-old son fired a barrage of paintballs into the crowd from inside his father’s van.

It was the 10-year-old’s idea, police later said: He’d asked his dad if he would take him on a “drive by shooting” with his paintball gun, and Williams, 26, allegedly said yes.

But as the paintballs peppered the crowd, at least one of the victims thought the gunshots were real. So the man pulled out his own gun and fired a single bullet at the van — wounding the young boy and sending him to the hospital.

Opa-locka police later arrested Williams on a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm, the Miami Herald reported. In a police report, detectives alleged the father “acted recklessly by agreeing to conduct a drive by paintball shooting,” the newspaper reported.

Complete article here: link

Who could NOT see that coming? Dad is an asshole for agreeing to do it in the first place, people like that need to not have children.

Do the parents of these children live in a vacuum? Where are the adults?

[andi9899]

Jun 2, 2021 10:04:41 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jun 2, 2021 9:52:43 GMT -5 daisylu said:

Who could NOT see that coming? Dad is an asshole for agreeing to do it in the first place, people like that need to not have children.

Do the parents of these children live in a vacuum? Where are the adults?

The parent of this child is barely an adult. The kid is 10 and the parent is 26. Both young and stupid. Doesn't make it ok, just makes it make a little more sense.

[Opti]

Jun 2, 2021 9:48:51 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

And then there are these two kids.

12-year-old, 14-year-old engage in shootout with Florida deputies after home break-in

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were in a shootout with deputies Tuesday night in Volusia County, arming themselves with weapons belonging to a house they had broken into.

Complete article here: link

She is cray cray. Destroying furniture, a toilet, and a bathtub with a bat? If she lives, she should have to pay all that off.

[swamp]

Jun 2, 2021 9:48:51 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

And then there are these two kids.

12-year-old, 14-year-old engage in shootout with Florida deputies after home break-in

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were in a shootout with deputies Tuesday night in Volusia County, arming themselves with weapons belonging to a house they had broken into.

Complete article here: link

That girl has had some serious trauma in her life. 

[Opti]

Jun 2, 2021 20:52:55 GMT -5 swamp said:

Jun 2, 2021 9:48:51 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

And then there are these two kids.

12-year-old, 14-year-old engage in shootout with Florida deputies after home break-in

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl were in a shootout with deputies Tuesday night in Volusia County, arming themselves with weapons belonging to a house they had broken into.

Complete article here: link

That girl has had some serious trauma in her life. 

I don't doubt that you are right. I'm not an emotional thinker, so if I had broken away from a place I didn't want to be at, my thought would be getting away to somewhere better. Not trashing someone's place that had nothing to do with what happened to me.

Its probably good the boy got caught given his medical needs, but I wonder what will happen to her. Predators are not kind to troubled fourteen year old girls. 

[Tennesseer]

The evening news today had a segment on these two kids.  They somehow got out of a home for troubled kids.  Not the first time there were escapees from the home.

The home is apparently and temporarily shut down until they fix their problems.

[teen persuasion]

Jun 2, 2021 22:29:06 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

The evening news today had a segment on these two kids.  They somehow got out of a home for troubled kids.  Not the first time there were escapees from the home.

The home is apparently and temporarily shut down until they fix their problems.

Residents frequently go AWOL from these types of agencies. My DH has been a teacher at similar agencies, and runaway were a regular occurrence. They reported the incident to local law enforcement, they did not track the kids down themselves.

Maybe a decade ago there was a push at the agency he was at at the time, to create a secure wing, for sexual offenders. NIMBY kicked in with the nearby property owners, and the political outrage got the plan forbidden. What the agency never explained (PR) is that those sexual offenders were already residents. The agency wanted to be able to better secure them on site. It wasn't a "build it and they will come" plan. The locals made themselves less safe by blocking the secure wing. They also made other residents of the campus less safe; the residential population are often both perpetrators and/or victims of abuse who need to be removed from their home situation. Some of those kids are very young - there were classes down to preschool age (not necessarily all residential, though); DH mentioned the language of some of those preschoolers was absolutely shocking.


These troubled children are a challenge. We want to rehabilitate them, get them to a better place, educate them so they have a future, but some are just so broken. DH was so saddened when one of his students was involved in the murder of a teenage girl - the student was home on a holiday break, and fell in with a brother and a buddy from his neighborhood - the three of them were charged. A good bit of residential placement is to remove them from bad influences like this. Impulse control is a major weakness in these kids.

[Tennesseer]

A finalist for the 2021 Florida Father Of The Year contest.

Florida Dad Hurls Infant at Officers in Getaway Attempt After High-Speed Chase

A newly-released video shows a man who led police on a high-speed chase in Florida trying to avoid capture by tossing his 2-month-old baby at officers. A deputy managed to catch the infant, while the suspect momentarily escaped before being captured later.

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[NancysSummerSip]

The weather finally started to take a turn for the summer here. Blame it all on the heat. The higher the mercury, the greater the stupid factor seems to be around here.