Whiteface Gondola incident - Hoodlums threatened to push passenger out

[Rambo]

I was reading about a few teenage hoodlums who tried to scare the crap out of a passenger on their Gondola and filmed the incident and posted it on youtube before it was pulled. The kids threatened to push the man out of the Gondola. The kids now are facing charges. What is wrong with people nowdays? (this was posted on the Whiteface portion of the skiADK forum).

Here is a portion of the pulled youtube video: Warning contains Profane Language:
http://www.wptz.com/video/18863733/index.html

The TV news coverage:
http://www.wptz.com/news/18863784/detail.html

Here is a newspaper article about it:
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/505344.html?nav=5008

 

[boston_e]

bad parenting....

 

[hardline]

thats just wrong. that being said if i had been in the car and it had been me. one if not two of them would be dead or serriously injured. if you threaten my life i will very simply remove you from the face of the earth and the wonderfull thing is the law is on my side because its self defense. that is just .... im speachless.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Throw the book at these little pukes !!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

thats just wrong. that being said if i had been in the car and it had been me. one if not two of them would be dead or serriously injured. if you threaten my life i will very simply remove you from the face of the earth and the wonderfull thing is the law is on my side because its self defense. that is just .... im speachless.

Times two..I'm not a violent person but if provoked, I get superhuman strength and would break some necks in self defence..

 

[TheBEast]

regoddamndisculous......those kids should get the max!

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Karma will catch up to them..

 

[drjeff]

Future leaders of America there I so hope that their parents see that vid and then knock some sense into those winners! :uzi:

 

[Johnskiismore]

WTF!?!!! The punk who did the most talking I want to stomp his face! Real brave outnumber someone else and make threats.

Let's keep an eye on this, and let me be the first to guess...... the punks' parents will try to bail them out and say they're depressed, they were instigated, they were just 'being boys', they are victims of society, or some line of BS!!!

Crap like this really pisses me off :angry:

 

[deadheadskier]

not a violent guy here, but would've been nice to see a bit of poetic justice. Guy kicks their ass, resumes the videotape of them crying and posts it on youtube to have the punks friends ridicule them.

 

[Geoff]

If they're high school kids, I'll bet nothing is going to happen. The resort should step in and administer the true punishment. They should be banned for life from Whiteface.

 

[2knees]

not a violent guy here, but would've been nice to see a bit of poetic justice. Guy kicks their ass, resumes the videotape of them crying and posts it on youtube to have the punks friends ridicule them.

ok chuck norris

 

[deadheadskier]

ok chuck norris

:lol:

I've been known to sleep with my eyes open...or rather wait.

 

[hardline]

a few hours later this has me still kinda steamed. i was a crazy kids but my parents taught me right from wrong. you just dont do things like that to another human being.

 

[Skimaine]

How about the Singapore option - public caning across the bare backside.

 

[ed-drum]

I would put them in the military (preferably the Marines). That would teach them. Were they trying to make a snuff film? "Revenge is a dish best served cold".

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

WTF!?!!! The punk who did the most talking I want to stomp his face! Real brave outnumber someone else and make threats.

Very true they are cowards.

They should be banned for life from Whiteface.

I hope that happens. I also hope they can be punished by the law.

 

[SkiDork]

Agreed these putzes were acting like spineless bullies because they outnumbered the guy.

One thing I'd like to know:

What happened prior to the filming? Do we know for sure that the guy that got harrassed was just sitting there minding his own business? Or maybe he did or said something to provoke that?

 

[Rambo]

I would put them in the military (preferably the Marines). That would teach them. Were they trying to make a snuff film? "Revenge is a dish best served cold".

I do not think they were really going to push the man out of the Gondola. I imagine they wanted to scare the living crap out of him and post their video on youtube. Maybe it was the idiot kids way of making a "horror film".

 

[jaywbigred]

thats just wrong. that being said if i had been in the car and it had been me. one if not two of them would be dead or serriously injured. if you threaten my life i will very simply remove you from the face of the earth and the wonderfull thing is the law is on my side because its self defense. that is just .... im speachless.

Times two..I'm not a violent person but if provoked, I get superhuman strength and would break some necks in self defence..

Throw the book at these kids, whatever the book may be.

Hardline and GSS...be careful if you ever find yourself in the situation where you actually feel like getting involved physically, self-defense laws are not as powerful as you might think.