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massoluk · Jul 17, 2016

Flagler County Sheriff's Office spokesman James Troiano says in a news release that the homeowner awoke to a noise outside about 1:30 a.m. Saturday and saw a car sitting in the road in front of his house. He told authorities he got a handgun and approached the vehicle.

Troiano says the two teens in the car sped away and the man fired several shots at them.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-man-shoots-pokeman-players-house-40641726?cid=abcn_tco
Headline is so incredibly America.

edit: there was a more recent article on this

Homeowner's story

Police say a man, who has not been identified, heard loud noises outside of his home. He looked out his window and noticed a white car with its brake lights on in front of his house. The man grabbed his gun and went outside. The man says he heard someone say, "did you get anything". The man then stepped in front of the car, pointed his gun at the teenagers, and told them not to move. The man claims the vehicle sped towards him, and he started shooting at the vehicle.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/pokemon-go-hunters-shot-at-while-searching-for-pokemon

Teenager's story
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...on-trainers-shot-palm-coast-florida/87207116/

A 19-year-old man and his 16-year-old friend were sitting in a car on Primrose Lane playing Pokémon Go around 1:30 a.m., when a man walked out of his house nearby and fired shots at the car, according to a news release from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

Moments before the shooting, they said they heard someone say, "did you catch him?" the teens told the sheriff's office.

One of them said, "yeah, did you?"

That's when they heard several shots fired.

The car sped off. They arrived at the 19-year-old's house and checked themselves for injuries. They tried to check for bullet holes on the car in the dark but didn't see any damage. They thought someone might have just been trying to scare them and went inside.

It wasn't until the next morning, when the teen's mother found bullet holes in the rear tire, hubcap and fender, that they reported the shooting to the sheriff's office.

joedan · Jul 17, 2016

Strange country.

Goldrusher · Jul 17, 2016

www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan

Lupercal · Jul 17, 2016

The guy who shot will be arrested right? Not like he was defending himself.

Shiggy · Jul 17, 2016

Why didn't they have guns and fired back? With mandatory gun carriage this might not have happened.

Shane86 · Jul 17, 2016

Hey America you should ban guns.

Razmos · Jul 17, 2016

"I'm confused and scared, lets get out my gun and shoot things" - Americans

Mechanized · Jul 17, 2016

Troiano says the two teens in the car sped away and the man fired several shots at them.

This stupid ass mother fucker.

Dennis · Jul 17, 2016

Why did he fire at them?

"I have no idea what is going on right now. Better shoot my gun."

The barrier to do something that could easily kill other people should be more substantial.

Kathian · Jul 17, 2016

So why shoot at the car? He put his neighbours in danger by shooting down a street like that.

Pheace · Jul 17, 2016

So.. while holding a handgun he approaches a car with 2 kids in it. They speed off... and he fires at them anyway? Shouldn't he get arrested for crap like that?

Mechanized · Jul 17, 2016

Lupercal said:
The guy who shot will be arrested right? Not like he was defending himself.

Cut and dry attempted murder from my perspective. You don't open fire on "suspicious" people. You call the fucking cops and let them handle it. You ESPECIALLY don't open fire on people fleeing from you. These gun owners don't even have a sense of honor, hoping to shoot people in the BACK? JFC

Zelias · Jul 17, 2016

I can't even be surprised by this shit anymore.

wenaldy · Jul 17, 2016

Did he shoot like Yosemite Sam?

the_batman · Jul 17, 2016

so two teens were out at 1:30am.. sitting in a car in front of some random person's house.. playing Pokemon Go.. right..

the part about the florida man shooting at them doesn't surprise me at all though.

Askherserenity · Jul 17, 2016

Should be arrested. What the fuck...

FoxhoundNL · Jul 17, 2016

Gotta shoot 'em all?

Bluth54 · Jul 17, 2016

Askherserenity said:
Should be arrested. What the fuck...

He was obviously standing his ground from those fleeing teenagers.

lowhighkang_LHK · Jul 17, 2016

Pheace said:
So.. while holding a handgun he approaches a car with 2 kids in it. They speed off... and he fires at them anyway? Shouldn't he get arrested for crap like that?

No. His behavior is totally called for.

I don't know about you, but I'm an expert... (and something something)

KHlover · Jul 17, 2016

The road in front of his house isn't his property, so all I see here is attempted murder. He basically tried to shoot two unsuspecting teenagers. Hope they sue him.

frankie_baby · Jul 17, 2016

Hopefully now pokemon could be the thing to get america to adopt sensible gun laws

reddwarf42 · Jul 17, 2016

The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Askherserenity · Jul 17, 2016

Bluth54 said:
He was obviously standing his ground from those fleeing teenagers.

It's insane that he saw they were a couple of teens in the car and that they drove off and still decided to shoot at them.

How fucked up in the head do you have to be to come to that decision?

frankie_baby · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Why the fuck shouldn't they

Jim_Cacher · Jul 17, 2016

the_batman said:
so two teens were out at 1:30am.. sitting in a car in front of some random person's house.. playing Pokemon Go.. right..

the part about the florida man shooting at them doesn't surprise me at all though.

The man can call the cops first.

UrbanRats · Jul 17, 2016

Is this the "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out!" Approach? Should be in the Constitution, in there, somewhere.

maquiladora · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

No, it shouldn't be asked.

Dennis · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Who cares? That is their right.

KojiKnight · Jul 17, 2016

Please my non-American fellow gaffers, take note... Florida man. Don't equate Florida Man with the average American.

Jintor · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

you haven't been hanging in any pokemon go threads have you

Pheace · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Don't know about you but as a lifelong gamer, being up at 1:30 in the morning is really, REALLY not a strange thing at all. So if a game suddenly gets gamers out in the open, is it really that strange it'd be at night as well?

Also a lot less embarrassing waving your phone around trying to get pokemon that way.

NahaNago · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Yeah and the fact that they were teenagers as well at that time in the morning.

Keasar · Jul 17, 2016

KojiKnight said:
Please my non-American fellow gaffers, take note... Florida man. Don't equate Florida Man with the average American.

You're safe. Even the rest of the world knows that America is not as fucked up as Florida.

Bits N Pieces · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

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Anticol · Jul 17, 2016

America seems like such a scary country, I still remember hearing in the news here in Australia how an Australian student was killed while he was jogging at daylight shot in the back just because a couple of teens wanted to kill someone. Seriously...

veloxStrix · Jul 17, 2016

the_batman said:
so two teens were out at 1:30am.. sitting in a car in front of some random person's house.. playing Pokemon Go.. right..

the part about the florida man shooting at them doesn't surprise me at all though.

Been a while since you were a teenager, huh. Or lived in a city, even.

Askherserenity · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

It could have been anything. It could be been someone stopping the car to throw up or something, someone stopping the car to make a call. It could've been anything at all. Doesn't matter if they were playing Pokemon Go. They weren't parked inside the dudes driveway or anything.

Galactic Fork · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

So when the fuck are we allowed to play Pokemon Go oh great arbiter of video games?

EGM1966 · Jul 17, 2016

Australia eggs thrown US shots fired. Figures I guess.

Goddamn crazy response IMHO. Sounds like the teens weren't even being disruptive to residents (unlike the crowd in Australia) but this guy decides to pull a gun on them then fires when they flee the gun toting crazy...

Spottiettiedop · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

"No, why the fuck you didn't dial 911?!" He needs to be arrested. Just can't be reckless with a firearm.

oddjobs · Jul 17, 2016

Goldrusher said:
www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan

this is great.

massoluk · Jul 17, 2016

Goldrusher said:
www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan

oddjobs said:
this is great.

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida?hrs=168
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/weird-florida/

Everyone knows Florida

RipperGrim · Jul 17, 2016

He just shot at a random car? Man that guy should really not be allowed a gun.

Shiggy · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Why not?

Nightbird · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

Jintor said:
you haven't been hanging in any pokemon go threads have you

This made me laugh lol

But yeah, it's pretty normal to go out and play Pokémon Go at night.

I myself (and apparently like 50 other people I met) decided to do that yesterday hahaha

Ragnorok64 · Jul 17, 2016

Let's take a moment to realize how close to death these kids were

Later that morning, he says, the mother of one of the teens called the sheriff's office when they realized the car had a flat tire and several bullet holes in it. She told officials the two had been playing the smartphone app.

wildfire · Jul 17, 2016

I can bet this happened somewhere else before Florida. Too many open carry states with castle doctrine laws and psychos allowed to abuse these rules. Florida's problem is that their laws make it easier for news of their craziness to get out faster than any other state.

Chaos17 · Jul 17, 2016

Dennis said:
Why did he fire at them?

He though they were buglars >.>...
But yes, people should not be shot when there're just n the street (public area)!.
It made me remeber the bad thing that happened months ago when a cop shooted people sleeping in their car from the off topic of Gaf, ugh.

Askherserenity · Jul 17, 2016

The sad thing is that these kids would probably be dead if they decided to just try and explain themselves.

Frodo · Jul 17, 2016

reddwarf42 said:
The question should also be asked "Why the fuck were you playing Pokemon Go at 1:30 in the morning?!"

If there is a lure, there is a will.

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