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A guy shoots at a kid and doesnt get arrested?!? That wouldn't happen around here.

Getting sprinkled by shot from above is really a non event. Imo the kid didn't do anything wrong.

No, your neighbor is a piece of sh*t and he needs to move, 'cause his house accidently caught on fire and burned to the ground.

Little harsh ain't it?

Check the Tennessee hunting regulations to see how far from an occupied dwelling you are required to be before discharging a firearm. The prosecutor who handles your complaint against your neighbor will certainly check that reg. I believe the law is 100 yards but you better know for sure. Was the land your son was hunting on yours, public or some other landowner? Did he have written permission if it was so posted? Sometimes when the legal system gets involved there are unintended consequences.

100 yards, another land owner permition by word of mouth, land is not posted.

Yeah, in the interim, I've had to drive 35 miles into work, to relieve my partner. This was supposed to be a 1 hour outage. We now have 2 consultants on death watch, waiting for another consultant in Canada to call back.

Lock the doors.

ok lets say I do, then what happens is what usually happens, our wonderful system works like it usually does. Nothing happens but a slap on the wrist or jail and he makes bail right back out, now we already know this dude is crazy. Now crazy guy is mad as hell. My kids are home alone for 2 hours everyday before I get home from work with that guy next door.

You say man up, let me tell ya it was a lot harder for me not to beat his eyes out than it was to use my brain, keep my cool and think about what is gonna be the thing that keeps my boys safe. I have wanted to move for a while so its gonna be now.

You seem so very nice, maybe I'll buy a house next to you. grin.

Good luck. What size company? Never even heard of an entire farm going TU at once. Hope your DR plan is up to date.

Man oh man seal billy, sounds like you've got a true crazy. Sorry for your trouble. I left town never to return for events exactly as you describe. Your long term solution is to live in the country. Trust me on that one, you'll be much happier.
If these things are recurring, you filing charges may be what is needed to either get him into the system and held accountable, get him to move, or get him to shut up. One things for sure, doing nothing gets you nothing.
On the loud music, cops hate it when all the neighbors call repeatedly for parties at the same place. You and your neighbors can band together and marathon call the cops on the nights he plays the music.
Again, YOUR happiness will be an investment. Move to the country ultimately.

Bad deal all around, hope Mother Hen is calmed back down and okay today.

Gunner

Congratulations on not stomping his GD guts out. A major escalation to deadly endangerment like his is nearing insane territory, so prepare for more of it. That genie is out of the bottle now. Be safe.

Nah, I imagine the guy feels like a first rate dumbass this morning and he'll probably tread pretty lightly from here on out.

I read this thread again, and more details have come out.

1. The neighbor knows your son and that he bird hunts in that area.
2. Your wife was screaming at him to stop.
3. The guy was using a revolver.

While your son made an error in judgement, this azzhat neighbor of yours made a conscious descision to try and fatally harm your son. He cannot claim ignorance due to the above. That requires IMO an azz whipping at best and legal prosecution as well. Also IMO, attempted murder would not be a stretch knowing the above.

It's a small farm and a long story. We're about a year into a massive clean-up after they fired the VP and started doing it right. They hired me just in time to see his tail lights.

My guess is the Canadians will come across in the next hour.
The root cause was a corrupted VMWare host-- bad luck. The HA worked, but. . .

Sorry for the unintentional hijack.


Back to the subject. My feeling is that anytime you pop a primer in someone's direction, you mean to kill them. Beyond that, everything else in this story is fluff. Call the prosecutor on Monday AM. In KY, you can put a peace bond on the perp and squelch that kind of stuff.

Granted that hindsight is 20-20, but his ass woulda been paid for if Mother Hen had dropped him while he was shooting toward her kid.

The OP wouldn't have to move and maybe the neighbor's replacement wouldn't be insane.

No ,.......one's SON getting shot would be "Harsh".

Or this crazy bastard returns fire on his wife at that point and the man is either dealing with a dead spouse or trying to get her out of jail. I think she reacted appropriately under the circumstances. No need to escalate the crazy with someone that is already in loonyville.

With that said, I damn sure would not have faulted her is she went over and put this guys balls into the next county.

If she really had been in fear that this guy was not only flaming away on his revolver but acted like he was intentionally trying to hit someone, she would have been within her rights to take him down. With a firearm!
I hope you're not suggesting you think she could have prevailed against this guy , who was armed and flaming away, by just walking over there, on his property, and attacking him physically. That would be really stupid.

Yes, I'd kick Jr's backside, pet Momma, and let the legal system play their usual game with neighbor, then in 5/10 years he'd turn around and I'd be there......................

Gunner

How does that saying go?

Oh yea,,, There's two sides to every story. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.

Or something like that.