Incorrigible brats injure a woman with a frozen turkey

[Marlitharn]

Link.

Quote:

Police say they have pictures of the assailants, five teens caught on store suveillance tape in the aisles of the Waldbaum’s supermarket.

Police say they bought a 20 pound turkey. They obviously didn’t think that their purchase would be traced back to them and a credit card reported stolen in the afternoon.

Let’s imagine what went on in these little assnuggets’s heads:
Kyle: Hey, guys, I swiped this credit card, what should we buy?
Jordan: A stereo!
Hunter: A T.V.!
Dyllon: A Playstation 2!
Blake: Hey, I know! Let’s buy a massive frozen bird and fling it at a moving car and see if we can kill someone with it!

Silence.

Kyle, Jordan, Hunter, and Dyllon, in unison: Dude! You’re, like, a fucking genius!

Disclaimer: Names chosen for the obnoxiousness value. Real names of assnuggets is unknown.

[Harborwolf]

There are so many stupid decisions in this story that my brain just stopped.

1)stealing a credit card

2)buying a turkey as opposed to buying a tv, playstation, anything but a turkey

3)dropping it on a moving car.

:eek:

Anybody else long for the good ole days of shoplifting cds and candy. At least that kind of made sense. This is just mind boggling.

[Typo_Negative]

The asshats will be caught. And I hope they do years in prison.

[Typo_Negative]

And if the cashier had bothered to ask for an ID, the punks would have had to search for something else to throw off the overpass.

[duffer]

@spooje

And if the cashier had bothered to ask for an ID, the punks would have had to search for something else to throw off the overpass.

No shit on the ID part. Sadly, they would have found something else.

[Typo_Negative]

Or maybe the cashier, seeing the stolen card and calling for a manager, may have scared the little scotes and they may have went home?

[duffer]

Maybe for that night, but doing this is the kind of thing that will be done by some little psycho shitbags at some point.

(My reply wasn’t towards you, personally, BTW)

[Rufus_Xavier]

In fact, it’s worse than just an overpass drop. The story states that the turkey was thrown out of a car travelling in the opposite direction of the one the victim was driving in, which means the turkey was travelling a relative speed of anywhere from 70 to 150 mph when it hit the car. It skipped off the hood, went straight through the windshield, flattened the steering wheel and then hit her in the face. If it hadn’t hit anything on the way, she would most likely be dead. A very sad story.

[Shagnasty]

Come on. Let’s give them the benefilt of the doubt . Another witness heard one of them yell just after they threw it off: “As God is my witness, we thought frozen turkeys could fly!!!”

[Marlitharn]

It could have been a lot worse if the injured woman’s passenger hadn’t had the presence of mind to grab the steering wheel.

I don’t think store clerks have any incentive to check IDs anymore. If the card has already been reported stolen, the machine will refuse it, and if it hasn’t…well, it’s not coming out of their paycheck. Credit card companies generally don’t hold the cardholder responsible for purchases made on a stolen card; out of curiousity, who eats the cost of such purchases? The credit card company or the stores?

[buttonjockey308]

The fact that it was a frozen turkey probably saved that womans life. Were that item that those little maniacs tossed off that bridge something substantial, like a boulder or cinder block*, that womans’ family would be burying her today.

I’d like to buy each of those little asshats a round, and I don’t mean of drinks.

I’ve responded to a call just like this, so i know of what i speak, and it’s a damn senseless thing to have happen

[ivylass]

I heard on the radio this morning that they had caught them. No cite, though.

[ivylass]

@buttonjockey308

The fact that it was a frozen turkey probably saved that womans life. Were that item that those little maniacs tossed off that bridge something substantial, like a boulder or cinder block*, that womans’ family would be burying her today.

The link said the turkey weighed more than a cinder block.

What the hell is wrong with them?

[Annie-Xmas]

@Shagnasty

Come on. Let’s give them the benefilt of the doubt . Another witness heard one of them yell just after they threw it off: “As God is my witness, we thought frozen turkeys could fly!!!”

I thought of that line too, but damned if I was gonna post it. Suddenly it’s not that funny anymore.

The guys were caught after being recognized on the store’s video. It’s good to know that people will come forward–one bright spot in a horrible story.

[D_Odds]

We do know names. From today’s Newsday

Ryan Cushing, 18, Huntington, NY
Jack Cutrone, 18, Selden, NY
Steven Manzolina, 17, Selden, NY
Amanda McDonald, 17, Selden, NY
Rachel MacDonaland, 17, Centereach, NY

The paper also gave addresses. Homepage is www.newsday.com

Incorrigible, I don’t think, is the right word. Dangerously stupid is better. Wave goodbye to them for the next dozen or so years.

[tdn]

@ivylass

What the hell is wrong with them?

Well, I did stoopid shit as a teenager, and I bet you did too. Not this stupid, but still pretty stupid. In teen world, there are no such things as consequences. Whatever gets you and your friends to laugh is what you do.

Man, I’m glad I’ve (mostly) grown up.

[tdn]

@D_Odds

Incorrigible, I don’t think, is the right word. Dangerously stupid is better. Wave goodbye to them for the next dozen or so years.

Most likely only one of them will do serious time, and that will be the one that actually threw the bird. If they can figure out who that was. The rest, I’m betting, will do no more than a few months, or get off completely due to being cooperative.

But I hope that they all get scared shitless over this.

[Typo_Negative]

@duffer

Maybe for that night, but doing this is the kind of thing that will be done by some little psycho shitbags at some point.

Agreed.

[D_Odds]

@tdn

Most likely only one of them will do serious time, and that will be the one that actually threw the bird. If they can figure out who that was. The rest, I’m betting, will do no more than a few months, or get off completely due to being cooperative.

But I hope that they all get scared shitless over this.

Cushing alledgedly threw the turkey, as is being charged with first degree assault.

The other charges are in the article.

[buttonjockey308]

@ivylass

The link said the turkey weighed more than a cinder block.

What the hell is wrong with them?

[science lesson]
It’s not about the weight, but the mass, and the hardness and shape of the material. You’re less likely to have penetration with a softer material (such as frozen meat) than with cement or stone. If, for instance, you dropped a 16 pound bowling ball, and a 16 pound frozen turkey into a big block of the gelatin they use to determine wound cavitations from firearm rounds, you would (likely) find that the bowling ball would travel much further, with much more lateral impact than the turkey would.
[/science lesson]
Still…little bastards.