GOT HIM!

[ManDownUnder]

The little critter that dropped the concrete of the overbridge...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?...ectID=10342065

Only 14...!

[Lias]

20 year old guy dead
14 year old going to jail for murder..

What a bloody waste.

[scumdog]

Everybody must have been driving/riding safely and not speeding to free-up the cops involved in this investigation, - good on ya peoples!!

I wonder what 'horrible' sentence he'll get?? (sounds of old bus tickets being soaked)

[Motu]

Good one....but 14,the judge will give him a nasty stare,that'll teach him eh?

[ManDownUnder]

Everybody must have been driving/riding safely and not speeding to free-up the cops involved in this investigation, - good on ya peoples!!

I wonder what 'horrible' sentence he'll get?? (sounds of old bus tickets being soaked)

I'm just worried he'll get put into a borstel or somewhere he can be educated on how to get away with it...

[bugjuice]

hope the little shit doesn't get off lightly. No way in hell he didn't know the consiquence of what he was doing.
must admit, as horrible as the whole tragedy is, was a lucky shot. could have been aiming for the bonnet or roof.. to get the window in such a spot is a very slim chance.
Still, they were throwing stuff off the bridge which they know is wrong, and someone is dead because of it

[scumdog]

hope the little shit doesn't get off lightly. No way in hell he didn't know the consiquence of what he was doing.
must admit, as horrible as the whole tragedy is, was a lucky shot. could have been aiming for the bonnet or roof.. to get the window in such a spot is a very slim chance.
Still, they were throwing stuff off the bridge which they know is wrong, and someone is dead because of it

Yeah it was 'lucky' 'cos it 'only' killed the driver - sheesh!!

I guess it could have hit the roof, knocked it onto the driver head and cause him to swerve and hit a concrete bridge abutment and all four occupants be killed, I suppose that would have been 'unlucky' eh???

[Devil]

Release him to the public! Up with mob justice!

[James Deuce]

No way in hell he didn't know the consiquence of what he was doing.

Kind of a point, but at 14 he wouldn't have been thinking far enough ahead to thnk about someone dying. His main thought was, "Wouldn't it be cool if we hit a car?"

Not excusing it, but the 14 year old male brain is a messed up place. If he's had no distinct, constant, lifelong instruction in consequences for his own actions his basic mindset doesn't equate stuff that he does to other people as being "wrong", or that stupidity can be fatal.

[ManDownUnder]

Kind of a point, but at 14 he wouldn't have been thinking far enough ahead to thnk about someone dying. His main thought was, "Wouldn't it be cool if we hit a car?"

Not excusing it, but the 14 year old male brain is a messed up place. If he's had no distinct, constant, lifelong instruction in consequences for his own actions his basic mindset doesn't equate stuff that he does to other people as being "wrong", or that stupidity can be fatal.

... and at the risk of re-igniting an old conversation... the current crop of games, movies and "entertainment" which trivialise death, and reward you for it, aren't going to hinder any tendencies.

I hope all the kids in the area get a bloody good wake up call when they realise this one kid is actually being charged with murder.

[bugjuice]

Yeah it was 'lucky' 'cos it 'only' killed the driver - sheesh!!

I guess it could have hit the roof, knocked it onto the driver head and cause him to swerve and hit a concrete bridge abutment and all four occupants be killed, I suppose that would have been 'unlucky' eh???

I think you've taken my comment the wrong way.. I didn't say it's good luck, it's bloody rotten luck for everyone. But you try hitting a moving target with such consequence. No way in hell am I saying that any of this in a 'good' context. I'm saying it's a million-to-one shot, that's all.

And Jim, I agree, the 14 year old male is all over the place at the best of times. And it could be what they were thinking. But the act of throwing things off a bridge, even the youngest of kids know that's wrong to start with, let alone some ~8kg rock (or whatever it was).. What did they expect to happen?

[scumdog]

Kind of a point, but at 14 he wouldn't have been thinking far enough ahead to thnk about someone dying. His main thought was, "Wouldn't it be cool if we hit a car?"

Not excusing it, but the 14 year old male brain is a messed up place. If he's had no distinct, constant, lifelong instruction in consequences for his own actions his basic mindset doesn't equate stuff that he does to other people as being "wrong", or that stupidity can be fatal.

The retard has probably watched too many videos where there is a massive free-way pile up, wrecks everywhere (cool!! our retard thinks, - well actually we all know he DOESN'T think)) and everybody crawls out of their wrecked cars rubbing their sore elbow/banged head and stand around looking at the mess - while the hero/bad guy leaps over the crashed vehicles and makes his getaway.
Believe me, some of those slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, lackwitted, improvident oxygen theives think those videos are like real life - instead of being like Bugs Bunny which is closer to the truth.

[James Deuce]

And Jim, I agree, the 14 year old male is all over the place at the best of times. And it could be what they were thinking. But the act of throwing things off a bridge, even the youngest of kids know that's wrong to start with, let alone some ~8kg rock (or whatever it was).. What did they expect to happen?

They know it's wrong, but they don't understand at a fundamental level why. Bet this kid does now. They certainly didn't think that the rock would end up in the car, they were merely after the gratification of hitting one.

It's the the old, "Yeah, yeah, it's wrong, but you can't make me do what you say, so shut up old man." thing.

[Beemer]

Yeah it was 'lucky' 'cos it 'only' killed the driver - sheesh!!

I guess it could have hit the roof, knocked it onto the driver head and cause him to swerve and hit a concrete bridge abutment and all four occupants be killed, I suppose that would have been 'unlucky' eh???

I don't think bugjuice was meaning 'lucky' in the typical sense of the word, perhaps it wasn't the right word to use in this instance, but I think they were meaning it was statistically a 'lucky' shot. If you stood there and tried to get a block of concrete to hit the windscreen of a car moving at 100kph underneath you, it is likely you would not be successful. It is a terrible, terrible tragedy that on this day, as 'luck' would have it, they scored a bulls-eye.

I am glad the offender has been caught, but I really doubt they will truly understand the devastation they have caused. I agree that they probably didn't expect to kill someone, this was an extremely unfortunate outcome of an act of sheer stupidity. It's not like they would have had any real idea of what would happen when a block of concrete that size hits a moving vehicle. I bet they thought "cool, let's see how much damage we can cause to somebody's car or see if we can make someone swerve to avoid it".

And what penalty can be imposed that is fair? We've all done dumb things that have had consequences far beyond what we thought would happen at the time, but this kid knew that whatever the outcome, it could be serious, so they do need to be made aware of this and penalised accordingly.

The sad thing is, it will probably make some sickos out there think that this is a 'fun' thing to try. And why is it always the decent ones who are killed, they never kill their drug dealing cousin or thieving neighbour.

[scumdog]

The sad thing is, it will probably make some sickos out there think that this is a 'fun' thing to try. And why is it always the decent ones who are killed, they never kill their drug dealing cousin or thieving neighbour.

I know, only a reject from 'tard school would throw a lump THAT size (or any size come to think of it) off a bridge onto moving cars - how were they to know it wasn't mum/dad/sibling/mates that were in the car?????