veronica 2 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Quote: The boy wanted his father to look at his Xbox 360 video game system. The father didn't want to. An argument ensued. The boy handed his father a rifle. Shoot me, he said. So the father did. Apparently true! State police at Fern Ridge say that scenario played out Friday night between 60-year-old James Stanley Niedosik and his 17-year-old son. The boy ended up in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull behind his ear. Niedosik ended up in Monroe County Prison on $250,000 bail, charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. A woman identifying herself as Jeanie Niedosik, James' ex-wife and the boy's mother, answered the phone at the Jackson Township residence this evening. ''One's in jail, one's in the hospital,'' she said. ''I won't know exactly what happened until I talk to [my son]. He's incoherent yet; they have him heavily sedated.'' She said she wasn't present for the shooting but doesn't believe it unfolded the way police described. ''He did the shooting but it was an accidental thing that took place,'' she said. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Not that I know the story, but... "The boy handed his father a rifle. Shoot me, he said." before pushing his father against the wall while throwing knives around his silhouette. Obviously there is more to the story than six sentences quoted above? It would be nice to hear the whole story before dropping my jaw in angst. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Added more samurai, thats all there was. I agree though there really must be a perfectly reasonable explanation why a guy would shoot his son with a rifle. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Not me V. It's some power struggle. Not me. Link to post Share on other sites
boardbaka 3 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 so what exactly is the lesson do you think ?- sad sad story that hardly does justice to it being a story imhao. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 are they polish any chance? Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 the lesson is the son should have been using a nintendo wii, then they could have just used those little remote things to shoot each other. or maybe play tennis instead. Link to post Share on other sites
Domokun_72dpi 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Spot on Spook. Thats just plain bad parenting. Eveyone knows xbox is evil. Wii promotes healthy violence..... Great avatar by the way mate =) Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I can't imagine what more could be added to the story to have it make sense. Who cares if it was an accident or not, the boy is dead and you don't point a loaded gun at someone you are not prepared to kill. (Unless perhaps they were being attacked by someone else and you were trying to get the other guy?) Link to post Share on other sites
wattiewatson 0 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 self defence. i think its a defence to many crimes on the books. Seems like a goer if someone is throwing knives at you. Link to post Share on other sites
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