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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:17 PM Apr 2016

Man shoots son for stealing food from grandmother

Source: Associated Press

Man shoots son for stealing food from grandmother

25-year-old shot in lower left leg

By AP
Published Thursday, April 21, 2016

Police have arrested a North Carolina man who they say shot his son in the leg for stealing food from a family member.

The Fayetteville Observer reports that a police statement said 49-year-old Ted Alan Walters of Elizabethtown found out Friday that his son allegedly stole hamburger and bacon from his grandmother’s freezer.

The statement said Walters forced his way inside his son’s home and shot the 25-year-old in the lower left leg. He told police he shot his son to teach him a lesson.

White Lake police Lt. Mike Salmon said Joshua Walters was taken to a Wilmington hospital with injuries not considered to be life threatening.

Read more: http://www.emirates247.com/crime/world/man-shoots-son-for-stealing-food-from-grandmother-2016-04-21-1.627886

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Son, father Ted Alan Walters [/center]

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Man shoots son for stealing food from grandmother (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP

The modern day interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution... MrScorpio Apr 2016 #1

Southerners want people to stop stereotyping, but these two are what most Feeling the Bern Apr 2016 #2

Both of them... Archae Apr 2016 #3

I can't be the only one who sees it? LeftyMom Apr 2016 #4

Stay the fuck away from meth, kids. nt Codeine Apr 2016 #5

Yeah, shoot your kids to teach them a lesson. How old is that kid? Unicorn Apr 2016 #6

Shooting is not the only thing that's disturbing about the story. Nyan Apr 2016 #7

Soooooo liberalnarb Apr 2016 #8

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)

1. The modern day interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:53 PM

Apr 2016

Because you never know when you have to demonstrate that raw meat is more important to you that your own flesh and blood.

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)

2. Southerners want people to stop stereotyping, but these two are what most

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:26 AM

Apr 2016

non-southerners think when they hear it.

Rednecks with too many guns and too little brains.

Archae

(46,328 posts)

3. Both of them...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:35 AM

Apr 2016

Look like actors straight out of one of those "evil hillbillies in the woods" movies.

LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)

4. I can't be the only one who sees it?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:39 AM

Apr 2016

Codeine

(25,586 posts)

5. Stay the fuck away from meth, kids. nt

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 12:50 AM

Apr 2016

Unicorn

(424 posts)

6. Yeah, shoot your kids to teach them a lesson. How old is that kid?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:45 AM

Apr 2016

And stealing food from grandma?

Nyan

(1,192 posts)

7. Shooting is not the only thing that's disturbing about the story.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:12 AM

Apr 2016

An able-bodied 25-year-old man couldn't afford food so he stole from his grandmother. I'm doubtful that he has a good insurance. It's gonna cost him a lot to be healed. His father probably doesn't have an attorney, so he'll be assigned a public defender, or God knows what will happen.
For some reason I don't feel like jeering at them; the system has failed, and they were on the receiving end, too.

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)

8. Soooooo

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 10:49 AM

Apr 2016

American gun culture has gotten so bad that American parents are using guns as a form of physical punishment. We. Are. Fucked.

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