Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9901450)

I assume a lot of the people riding their moral high horses in this thread have never had to deal with one of these people in real life. It isn't exactly fun.

Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9901467)

Disagreeing with a person telling a neighbor to euthanize their child isn't what I would call a "moral high horse".

Originally Posted by jspchief (Post 9901467)

Disagreeing with a person telling a neighbor to euthanize their child isn't what I would call a "moral high horse".

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9901479)

No shit, dumbass. I didn't say it was.

But would you want to live across the street from that kid?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9901413)

I'm thinking that I probably wouldn't know that there is something wrong with the dude and he probably would have been punched in the face.

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9901479)

But would you want to live across the street from that kid?

Originally Posted by Flachief58 (Post 9901489)

She has the right to sell her house and GTFO.

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9901484)

No way jose. I wouldn't be writing letters though. I'd just move because that's all that can really be done. They can't really do anything to make them be quiet...

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9901374)

Probably, but it would be interesting to know the whole story. Just how much of a disturbance does this kid cause and is there anything the grandmother can do to minimize the impact on her neighbors? For all we know, the neighbors may have been politely trying to get the grandmother to take some reasonable steps to minimize a serious disturbance before someone resorted to this. Not that that would completely excuse a nasty letter like this, but it could cast it in a different light.

I've got a friend who has an autistic son who he started taking to the gym for exercise. The son is somewhere around 18 or 19 now, he's over 6' tall, he weighs over 200 lbs, and he has a history of temper and behavior issues. After doing their thing at the gym, my friend and his son were getting changed in the lockerroom and the son went over to the shower area, walked right up next to a man who was taking a shower and took a piss on him and started laughing because he thought it was funny. It's hard to fault my friend for wanting to get his son some exercise or for failing to be riding his son so closely that the young man couldn't pull a stunt like that (he does keep a pretty close eye on him), but on the other hand, the guy who was minding his own business taking a shower shouldn't have to deal with that kind of thing. Fortunately for my friend, the man accepted his apology and didn't make a big deal out of it. But I think the trips to the gym ended, at least for a while. Can you imagine a full grown man walking over to you in the shower and taking a piss on you? The autistic guy didn't know it was wrong, but that sure doesn't make it right.

Originally Posted by tooge (Post 9901496)

autistic guy in this case would've gotten a bar of soap jammed down his throat and a good kick to the nutsack

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9901486)

No doubt, except that some people might be intimidated by this particular guy's size.

In this case, I think the guy who got pissed on was at least somewhat aware that my friend's son was a special needs case so that probably helped.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9901493)

She also has a right to a reasonable level of peacefulness in the neighborhood. There's a balance to be made here and we don't know the whole story. I think we all agree, for the most part, that the letter was over-the-top.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9901501)

Hey everybody, tooge likes to pick on reeruned people! :p

Originally Posted by frazod (Post 9901479)

No shit, dumbass. I didn't say it was.

But would you want to live across the street from that kid?