In St. Croix County, Minn., a 19-year-old is being credited for saving his three friends' lives after his dad came home and started firing a gun at them, police say. (Dad was later shot after a standoff with law enforcement.) Snip from the Star-Tribune:
Investigators also credited the younger Christenson with saving the lives of his three friends by leading his father away from them during the shooting spree and then breaking a bedroom window in the basement so all four of them could escape unharmed.
And I thought my Dad embarrassed me as a teenager.
Posted by: Chewbecca | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 09:57 AM
wtf?? kid is 19, should have his own place. shouldn't have a bunch of hooligans over! the dad was just protecting his property and the pigs??? what were they doing there??? this kid is far from a hero, more like a thug or virus sponging about. throw the kids ars in jail along with the pigs
Posted by: mogwai | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Puhleeez! You have got to be kidding me with that comment!
Posted by: Searching | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Once more, thank God, the NRA and the GOP for readily accessable guns to protect our families ... oh, wait, he was trying to kill his kid's friends!
Too bad the Taliban do not have the same sense of hospitality towards Al Qaida
Posted by: KC Cicero | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Once again, Cicero is blaming an inanimate mechanical device for inappropriate human behavior.
Guns don't have mind control over me. Maybe they influence you to behave badly Cicero. Do guns talk to you Cicero, or is it a nonverbal, mind control thing?
Posted by: Elrond of Rivendell | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM
He wouldnt be Cicero if he didnt!
Posted by: Searching | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 01:00 PM
Its like this cicero, peace through superior firepower.
And stop thanking the NRA...the Chinese invented the firestick thousands of years ago. Didnt they teach you that in law school?
Posted by: Pat, Sues boy | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 01:10 PM
These kids would probably be great on a dodge ball team. If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball.
Posted by: Sasquach | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 01:15 PM
Here's a link to the original story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. From the article Dad came home drunk and started an argument with his 19 y/o son - grabbed his gun and stalked his son through the house for at least 20 minutes (the duration of the call to 911) during which several shots could be heard by 911 dispatchers. It is unknown if Dad was shooting at Son's friends, but he was definitely shooting at Son.
Dad was critically wounded when after a nearly 7 hour stand-off with police, he twice tried to shoot deputies. According to the report - the house was filled with bullet holes from the Dad shooting up the place.
Guns+Alcolhol+Unstable Indididual = bad things (although this could be said of just about anything).
Posted by: Man in a Mission | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 02:20 PM