Insane… That was probably the first word that popped into my head after my dad told me yesterday he got shot (!!!) when cycling home. Yes, you read it well: got shot. Ok, not with a big gun with big bullets, it’s not Iraq here, but with an air gun and a little iron “bullet”. But still, that doesn’t make it any less crazy… Some kid was just shooting at people that passed by, with his air gun and hit my dad in the face, on his chin… totally insane… it left an about 2 by 2 cm red mark on his face… just 5 cm higher and my dad would have been blind on one eye for sure… or god knows what other damage it could have done…

I still can’t believe my dad refused to go to the police… I mean, the stupid kid is shooting at people?!?! Just grabbing him by the ear a telling his mamma just doesn’t do it for me… Especially as the mamma clearly failed to educate her child about what is right and what is wrong… as he apparently thinks shooting at people is “normal”?! So what can be expected from her after this (hopefully) “incident”?? It probably has much more impact when the police tells him off, then his mamma, but I couldn’t convince my dad from that, and don’t know who did it or where it happened, so unfortunately there is not much I can do about that…

It’s just insane… I fail to find other words for it… I remember as a kid my brother and I would also shout my dad’s air gun, but we used to shoot with little “arrows” at a dartboard… and never ever would we even have considered taking that thing to the street and let alone, start shooting at people with it… It’s scary, but probably also quite typical for our current day society. General lack of respect and parents failing to teach children basic normal values… And maybe that’s the most scary bit of this story…

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