This sounds a bit like if those old geezers had shot the kids "the kids would have only had themselves to blame".
Big no. The resident attorney speaks. Using the toy car was a joke of candid camera ilk. You might not like the joke or think its funny. But it didn't do any permanent or material harm. The old geezers could have laughed it off, wagged their fingers at the kids and yelled "now have that toy car shove the ball back to its original position or we'll spank you and speak to your parents". And the kids would have probably done so. You know what, the old men
could have acted as sports not as vicious idiots. The appropriate reaction would have been to pick up the car and holler good-naturedly at the bush: "Does that mean we get to keep this now or do you want it back?"
Smashing the toy car was ill temper and bad style by the bearded guy. But it gets worse: Attacking the kid with the club by the unbearded one was armed assault, nothing else. I would have indicted him for it, the f***ing idiot. What would have happened if the kid had stumbled, would it have been ok for the old, idiotic badger to hit him? Just a little, until he starts to bleed or completely dead? He did disturb their game you know.
An eye for an eye, a smashed head for a dislocated golf ball? You guys can't be serious about this. We're writing 2011 not 1811 where it was ok to hang someone for stealing horses. Or maybe it wasn't even ok to do that back then.
This has nothing to do with golf, college pranks, old or young. It has to do with reasoned, balanced reaction. You're expected to have that as an adult, more so as a pensioner. I find how the sour-faced unbearded guy/armed assaulter acted absolutely intolerable. Too bad he didn't have a heart attack while running. Or maybe he did. There is still hope.
I've done worse things as a kid or youth. No one ever attacked me with a golf club for it nor would I have thought back then or today that he would have had a right to.
Look and behold: Dave has started a political discussion.
