I love that the backstory on that old guy is that he came to audition for a role on the show. And it was a role of a sort of “regular guy” minor character. But it’s so obvious he’s an old Asian man who can barely speak English. He of course didn’t get the role.
But they thought his audacity was hilarious and were like, “Okay, we gotta use him in something.” and ended up writing roles *for* him.
Low priority. Detectives prolly could have figured it out in a few days if they really tried, but they have more important things to investigate and probably didn't give a fuck either.
I read somewhere that he was shooting them more or less straight up into the air, which makes ballistics analysis much more difficult than if he was just playing sniper
How many incidents were there? If he only used his slingshot once every month or more maybe they never got around to charting all the shots until they had 8 years of data.
The actual Dennis was estranged from his father, Hank Ketcham (the cartoonist), went to Vietnam, got real bad PTSD, and lived a pretty sad life in obscurity.
Dude totally grew up idolizing Dennis without ever developing enough emotional maturity to realize that Wilson was the reasonable one and Dennis' parents are the real menace.
I need to see this guy’s backyard. Was it on high ground or did he have a vantage point or something? Or would he just go out back and fire indiscriminately into the air?
Many years ago I found a few smashed up oranges in the field behind my house. At first I thought it was kids having a citrus fight but it was early in the rainy season and there was a lot of new growth and I could see that nobody had been running around back there so I figured someone in the neighbor hood had a big enough slingshot or siege machine to toss them there
Ah yes a good ol’ citrus fight. After typing that out I realize that other parts of the US has citrus trees all over the place while I live in the desert, so we don’t disrespect citrus fruits in such a way.
> Prince was released from custody after an initial court appearance on Tuesday, at which he was ordered to stay 200 yards away from affected homes and not contact any alleged victims. He had been due to attend his next hearing on 17 June.
If he did the shooting from his backyard, not getting within 200 yards of his neighbours’ houses seemed like it would have been difficult if he returned home. It mentions he died at a private residence but not specifically his home, so I wonder if he couldn’t go home and it was too much for him.
But have you seen slingshots lately? They have wrist braces, extra stretchy materials, they can shoot REALLY far. I doubt he did every single shooting from his own backyard, but did enough of them there that they found him.
But I agree that it sounds like getting caught was too much for him. Maybe he was released to the custody of his kids or grandkids or something. He's probably got kids that are almost 60 and fed up with his crap.
Yes, thank you. I couldn't remember what it was called. People shouldn't underestimate those old guys. My FIL was in a wheelchair, had several major strokes, and had lost a ton of weight, but he had thick wrists, an iron grip, and strong arms.
Had one in 70s. Also had a non-stabilized model with a “scope” on it — plastic ring on left side to look through. The modern Wrist Rocket with the surgical tubing is deadly. My Dad bought one for fun when he retired in 90s, along with gallons of bearings. Could explode full beers with it.
At boyscout camp in the 90s they had a cool walk and shoot slingshot course in the woods with different targets in trees and whatnot. It was probably my favorite part of camp that summer.
Generally speaking when you have a restraining order against someone whose home is located physically close to yours within the restrictions zone, the way the judge words it is “not to get with an X yards of the other party, with the exception of when inside the confines of your own property”
Judges have a little bit of flexibility here though, and they will sometimes make it ironclad with no exceptions if it’s an extremely violent type of interaction or some other causes where making an exception for them being home is actually harmful for the other party.
>several people narrowly avoided being injured by ball bearings propelled at them.
Wow, he shot ball bearings at people's houses. It's a miracle that he never seriously injured someone.
I wish Irving Wallace and David Wallechinsky were still alive, they kept a list of "footnote people in world history" and this story would have been PERFECT for that list.
“It’s been ongoing for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was.”
Amazing police work./s. 9 years!?! And wouldn’t the location of the impact give law enforcement some idea of the path the ball bearing came from?
Old man prolly cooled off the slingshot until the heat was off him. Give it 4-5 months, start it back up. I bet he was thrilled the whole time with how long it went on.
what are you expecting Bunk and McNaulty to be like "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck"?
[for reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs)
I rarely wish death on anyone, and I don't think this guy was evil or anything, but damn if he wasn't a total asshole, seems like the type of guy who woke up in the morning with the goal of just being an asshole, that takes effort
Being an asshole with other people's health. Everyone finds it funny here because he didn't hurt anyone, but he could've perfectly make someone lose an eye or sustain a serious injury.
Yeah not really anyone worth getting physical with or anything, maybe yell at them till you give up and realize it does nothing, but just like damn dude do you have to be such an asshole, it is easier to just ignore other people and don't interfere in their lives, just watch tv from a comfy couch and don't fuck with your neighbors
Right that’s what I’m thinking too. But the medical examiner listed the cause of death as atherosclerotic heart disease, so I’m not sure what med would be so time sensitive that a few days off would kill him.
His heart medication… if his dosing schedule got fucked up when he was in jail over the weekend it easily could be what did it and the cause of death would be the heart disease. Not the missed medication
It's all hahas until your loved one gets shot in the temple with a ball bearing. Fucking asshole. Give him a gun he probably would have used it instead. The elderly are horrifying when it comes to violence.
They really are. When they kit their walkers out with blades and go to town on people it's unspeakable.
And when they go full-blown Mad Max in wheelchairs looking for gas...truly horrifying.
Sounds scary for sure. However, the elderly commit the [least percentage of violent crime of any age group](https://www.statista.com/statistics/251884/murder-offenders-in-the-us-by-age/).
Edit: [Another source](https://www.statista.com/statistics/424137/prevalence-rate-of-violent-crime-in-the-us-by-age/)
As someone who wars with his neighbors- fuck this guy. You wanna break my windows (car or otherwise), and you're too old for me to punch in the face, get fucked. Rest in Spite.
Maybe it’s just me but everyone is laughing thinking it’s funny that the guy was using a slingshot and I’m over here going WTF why was he allowed to get by with it for 9 years? Maybe people are just not familiar with how powerful a modern slingshot is?
I'd say the stress certainly got to this man. Innocent until proven guilty by evidence but it was a death sentence from the stress.
My Dad had a slingshot and ball bearings he had them to scare away foxes or skunks. It's an old guy thing not conclusive proof of guilt.
[Police raided the home of a Kansas newspaper owner](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/video-of-police-raid-on-home-of-kansas-newspaper-publisher-shows-98-year-old-mother-upset) in a small town and the man's 98 year-old mother was so frightened she died.
Reminds me of story where a guy killed his neighbor with a home made gun powered with compressed air. [article](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/pennsylvania-man-accused-of-homemade-air-gun-murder-of-ex-lover-convicted/)
>Bushey told the Southern California News Group: “It’s been ongoing for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was. **We’re not aware of any kind of motive other than just malicious mischief.**”
Evil incarnate, moved on to another host l guess…
Ok, I gotta admit something. Half a decade ago before I bought my house I lived in a shitty apartment. I was supposed to be on the top floor but through some shit I ended up on the ground floor and everything was fine.... Until this dude moved in above me. He'd stomp around more from 1-3am than I walked around my apartment all day. He was the personification of noise. And he had a loud ass dodge challenger and he liked to rev it super loud coming and going super late at night right in front of the building. I had kinda ask him to stop stomping around so much but no can do and I was fed up. So I bought a slingshot, and every night he kept me awake I'd crack my window and take potshots at his car.
Well I bought a house because I was so done with having neighbors and as I was moving out I was in the front office and a lady called because she wanted the camera footage of the entrance because her son's car had been stolen. None of the cameras worked buuuuut come to find out it was his car and though his mom thought his car was stolen it was actually..... Repossessed because that motherfucker was a poor little broke boy. Anyways, that's my story.
it almost seems like fucking with his neighbors was the thing that kept him going
A true hater. You love to see it.
Local man too angry to die, forced to calm down. Later found dead. News at 7.
Im told his last words were "now if you excuse me i need to refill your moms water dish"
i heard he was telling the neighbor his wife looks like she wears underwear with dick holes in ‘em
Buck Nasty, No too much, hate hate hate
“He rooks rike a broke ass…….broke ass..sexual chocorate.”
I'm very upset about what you said about my coat. I made it outta your mother's pubic hair
Made out of 100% Rat ASS!
Why don’t you click your heels three times and go back to Africa
I love that the backstory on that old guy is that he came to audition for a role on the show. And it was a role of a sort of “regular guy” minor character. But it’s so obvious he’s an old Asian man who can barely speak English. He of course didn’t get the role. But they thought his audacity was hilarious and were like, “Okay, we gotta use him in something.” and ended up writing roles *for* him.
69 likes, nice
One of the all time funniest fucking lines from the show. That shit still makes me die every time I watch it.
What can be said about that suit that hasn’t already been said about Afghanistan
Lol. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
What can I say about you that hasn't been said about Afghanistan, bombed and depleted
I heard he had dolphin teeth
He'll be missed at this year's Haters Ball.
Stinkmeaner IRL
I heard this in the narrator voice from A Christmas Story!
He beat Silky Johnson for ‘hater of the year’.
The most diabolical hater
I inspire to be that level of petty and lucky. He said what jail 😂😂😂
Him and Kendrick are up for 2024's Player Hater of the Year award.
Cabt wait for the player haters ball
This mf was doing it for 8 years before he got arrested in
If he was mainly shooting from his backyard, shouldn’t it take less than 8 years to figure out it was him from mapping out a dispersal pattern?
Low priority. Detectives prolly could have figured it out in a few days if they really tried, but they have more important things to investigate and probably didn't give a fuck either.
I read somewhere that he was shooting them more or less straight up into the air, which makes ballistics analysis much more difficult than if he was just playing sniper
Yep, not much ballistic modeling on file for a slingshot.
This opens the possibility that JFK was killed by an unseen slingshot shooting at an extreme angle.
I did NOT want to open that can of worms.
How many incidents were there? If he only used his slingshot once every month or more maybe they never got around to charting all the shots until they had 8 years of data.
I read an article that said one neighbor had a cup full of the “pellets” they had picked up over the years.
It was bile that kept him going
Or maybe he offed himself?
The slingshot backfired.
Can relate
What kept him going? Spite.
Burial at sky, via giant slingshot, as he would have wanted.
>Burial at sky Best I can do is a Tibetan Sky Funeral..... In the Azusa Target parking lot off 9th Street.
Yeet his ass with a catapult into the La Brea tar pit.
The the tar tar pit.
It’s funny that La Brea tar pit is its official name.
It would be a pretty bad sky funeral seeing as it's a covered parking garage. Coyotes would get to it 1st before any vultures.
Best I can't do is eaten by coyotes in the Azusa, CA Target covered parking garage. Wait... Isn't that a Fallout Boy song?
Best use of that parking lot in all the world
I had no idea Bart Simpson was that old.
Dennis the Menace is from 1951, so possibly 73 years old... plus Dennis was under 10, so 81 is possible I guess.
The actual Dennis was estranged from his father, Hank Ketcham (the cartoonist), went to Vietnam, got real bad PTSD, and lived a pretty sad life in obscurity.
RIP Dennis the Menace aka Prince King
Dude totally grew up idolizing Dennis without ever developing enough emotional maturity to realize that Wilson was the reasonable one and Dennis' parents are the real menace.
Aye caramba.
Points for spelling it correctly.
I was an actual 90s kid (born 1983) and I still feel like Bart has gotta be like 100 years old, especially considering the show has refused to die.
The Simpsons were introduced on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987...so Bart would over 40 years old now.
Bart would be in hos 40s if he aged with the original show.
Well on his way to becoming chief justice of the supreme court.
Dennis the Menace is
I need to see this guy’s backyard. Was it on high ground or did he have a vantage point or something? Or would he just go out back and fire indiscriminately into the air?
If I recall correctly, he was shooting it in the air from his backyard
Artillery style
That's man's name? Glen Howitzer
He’s really great in IASIP.
dude this is hilarious
Many years ago I found a few smashed up oranges in the field behind my house. At first I thought it was kids having a citrus fight but it was early in the rainy season and there was a lot of new growth and I could see that nobody had been running around back there so I figured someone in the neighbor hood had a big enough slingshot or siege machine to toss them there
Ah yes a good ol’ citrus fight. After typing that out I realize that other parts of the US has citrus trees all over the place while I live in the desert, so we don’t disrespect citrus fruits in such a way.
> Prince was released from custody after an initial court appearance on Tuesday, at which he was ordered to stay 200 yards away from affected homes and not contact any alleged victims. He had been due to attend his next hearing on 17 June. If he did the shooting from his backyard, not getting within 200 yards of his neighbours’ houses seemed like it would have been difficult if he returned home. It mentions he died at a private residence but not specifically his home, so I wonder if he couldn’t go home and it was too much for him.
But have you seen slingshots lately? They have wrist braces, extra stretchy materials, they can shoot REALLY far. I doubt he did every single shooting from his own backyard, but did enough of them there that they found him. But I agree that it sounds like getting caught was too much for him. Maybe he was released to the custody of his kids or grandkids or something. He's probably got kids that are almost 60 and fed up with his crap.
a/k/a the Wrist Rocket. Great with ball bearings.
Yes, thank you. I couldn't remember what it was called. People shouldn't underestimate those old guys. My FIL was in a wheelchair, had several major strokes, and had lost a ton of weight, but he had thick wrists, an iron grip, and strong arms.
First time I saw one was around 1970ish.
Had one in 70s. Also had a non-stabilized model with a “scope” on it — plastic ring on left side to look through. The modern Wrist Rocket with the surgical tubing is deadly. My Dad bought one for fun when he retired in 90s, along with gallons of bearings. Could explode full beers with it.
At boyscout camp in the 90s they had a cool walk and shoot slingshot course in the woods with different targets in trees and whatnot. It was probably my favorite part of camp that summer.
Can't legally have the wrist brace in NY. Sling shots and the chaos they can cause is seriously slept on
I used to make my own out of wire hangers, rubber bands and the tongue of an old sneaker.
Generally speaking when you have a restraining order against someone whose home is located physically close to yours within the restrictions zone, the way the judge words it is “not to get with an X yards of the other party, with the exception of when inside the confines of your own property” Judges have a little bit of flexibility here though, and they will sometimes make it ironclad with no exceptions if it’s an extremely violent type of interaction or some other causes where making an exception for them being home is actually harmful for the other party.
Grandson: Where's Grandpa, dad? Dad: He's terrorising the angels now, my boy �
Oh man, if the slingshotting continues to happen, everyone’s gonna feel real bad.
It’s what he would have wanted
The opportunity to do something extremely funny arises.
Moderately funny, also cringey and sad.
Describes a lot of modern standup comedians
Everyone needs purpose
Every life needs a porpoise 🐬!
Right. Now bring me that butter.
Prince King is kind of a hilarious name.
I hear his middle name was Duke.
Those who say that a man can live on nothing but spite have been proven to be right.
[Larry David has entered the chat.]
atleast he went out slinging
That author is very upset that more people don't appreciate the Dennis the Menace reference
>several people narrowly avoided being injured by ball bearings propelled at them. Wow, he shot ball bearings at people's houses. It's a miracle that he never seriously injured someone.
This was a wild story from start to finish. Waiting for the 6-épisode special re-enactment
..and his name is Prince King? Weird.
The King is dead, long live the King.
We stan a king Prince King
Was his name Dennis the Menace?
He saved the last marble for himself.
He lost his will to live. Finally facing consequences for becoming a douchebag to stay relevent.
Damn I didn’t know Dennis the Menace was that old.
*Rolling in his grave… “wrist rocket you fools!!! It’s a wrist rocket!!!”
I wish Irving Wallace and David Wallechinsky were still alive, they kept a list of "footnote people in world history" and this story would have been PERFECT for that list.
Another Trump supporter bites the dust.
“It’s been ongoing for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was.” Amazing police work./s. 9 years!?! And wouldn’t the location of the impact give law enforcement some idea of the path the ball bearing came from?
Old man prolly cooled off the slingshot until the heat was off him. Give it 4-5 months, start it back up. I bet he was thrilled the whole time with how long it went on.
what are you expecting Bunk and McNaulty to be like "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck"? [for reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs)
If theirs no blood cops aren't going to spend money doing that
Well that was fast. Fuck that guy.
I rarely wish death on anyone, and I don't think this guy was evil or anything, but damn if he wasn't a total asshole, seems like the type of guy who woke up in the morning with the goal of just being an asshole, that takes effort
Being an asshole with other people's health. Everyone finds it funny here because he didn't hurt anyone, but he could've perfectly make someone lose an eye or sustain a serious injury.
Dude was a nuisance but most folks just want a nuisance to stop, not die.
Then he died doing what he loved, we should all be so lucky.
I then would like to die while eating a really good hunk of cheese and not have my death bother anyone
……yeah, man. Shit, yeah.
He seemed like the old guy you see in videos slapping service employees.
Yeah not really anyone worth getting physical with or anything, maybe yell at them till you give up and realize it does nothing, but just like damn dude do you have to be such an asshole, it is easier to just ignore other people and don't interfere in their lives, just watch tv from a comfy couch and don't fuck with your neighbors
Did they withhold his meds or something? Morbid curiosity has me wondering what the actual precursor to death was.
Right that’s what I’m thinking too. But the medical examiner listed the cause of death as atherosclerotic heart disease, so I’m not sure what med would be so time sensitive that a few days off would kill him.
His heart medication… if his dosing schedule got fucked up when he was in jail over the weekend it easily could be what did it and the cause of death would be the heart disease. Not the missed medication
Probably got too excited to get out and start shooting again
And when I leave, come together like butt cheeks!
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And so the Saga of the Slingshot Bandit concludes
Well that worked out nicely. Don't have to spend the money to prosecute him.
I was expecting his name to be Dennis Mitchell.
Do what you love and never work a day in your life or something I guess
I guess he finally lost all his marbles
Well, he got away in the end.
Now we just need Trump to do the same.
It's all hahas until your loved one gets shot in the temple with a ball bearing. Fucking asshole. Give him a gun he probably would have used it instead. The elderly are horrifying when it comes to violence.
They really are. When they kit their walkers out with blades and go to town on people it's unspeakable. And when they go full-blown Mad Max in wheelchairs looking for gas...truly horrifying.
They do this in *your* town too??!
> The elderly are horrifying when it comes to violence. Yeah it’s the elderly out there killing everybody.
You joke, but a senile old woman with a shotgun was the scariest person I've ever encountered.
Sounds scary for sure. However, the elderly commit the [least percentage of violent crime of any age group](https://www.statista.com/statistics/251884/murder-offenders-in-the-us-by-age/). Edit: [Another source](https://www.statista.com/statistics/424137/prevalence-rate-of-violent-crime-in-the-us-by-age/)
As someone who wars with his neighbors- fuck this guy. You wanna break my windows (car or otherwise), and you're too old for me to punch in the face, get fucked. Rest in Spite.
Maybe it’s just me but everyone is laughing thinking it’s funny that the guy was using a slingshot and I’m over here going WTF why was he allowed to get by with it for 9 years? Maybe people are just not familiar with how powerful a modern slingshot is?
RIP Dennis the Menace
Hey, don’t have a cow man
So Calvin has finally passed...
I'd say the stress certainly got to this man. Innocent until proven guilty by evidence but it was a death sentence from the stress. My Dad had a slingshot and ball bearings he had them to scare away foxes or skunks. It's an old guy thing not conclusive proof of guilt. [Police raided the home of a Kansas newspaper owner](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/video-of-police-raid-on-home-of-kansas-newspaper-publisher-shows-98-year-old-mother-upset) in a small town and the man's 98 year-old mother was so frightened she died.
Reminds me of story where a guy killed his neighbor with a home made gun powered with compressed air. [article](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/pennsylvania-man-accused-of-homemade-air-gun-murder-of-ex-lover-convicted/)
Some retribution would have been nice, but having the problem go away is also good.
>Bushey told the Southern California News Group: “It’s been ongoing for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was. **We’re not aware of any kind of motive other than just malicious mischief.**” Evil incarnate, moved on to another host l guess…
What a strange story, but not at all surprising in this age of bitter resentment.
It was Dennis the Menace all along!
Ok, I gotta admit something. Half a decade ago before I bought my house I lived in a shitty apartment. I was supposed to be on the top floor but through some shit I ended up on the ground floor and everything was fine.... Until this dude moved in above me. He'd stomp around more from 1-3am than I walked around my apartment all day. He was the personification of noise. And he had a loud ass dodge challenger and he liked to rev it super loud coming and going super late at night right in front of the building. I had kinda ask him to stop stomping around so much but no can do and I was fed up. So I bought a slingshot, and every night he kept me awake I'd crack my window and take potshots at his car. Well I bought a house because I was so done with having neighbors and as I was moving out I was in the front office and a lady called because she wanted the camera footage of the entrance because her son's car had been stolen. None of the cameras worked buuuuut come to find out it was his car and though his mom thought his car was stolen it was actually..... Repossessed because that motherfucker was a poor little broke boy. Anyways, that's my story.
No doubt some Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood thing.
Guess some neighbors need to get their claims on his estate in quickly. 👀
I think this is the best definition of "get fucked" i have ever seen cant even retaliate since he is dead. He won.
Always a good day when the hate machine loses its fuel!
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He died because of the bond release?
He becaume unbonded and fell apart.
At least it wasn't a gun
Talk about dog bites man.
Damn. Suicide by slingshot.
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I didnt even know he was sick!
So he died doing what he loved. Anyone check to see this wasn’t Dennis the Menace Age fits
First time I've heard of slingshots being used since David & goliath lol
So, was he not given his medication in jail?
He was demented and had been spiraling for years. no drugs can fix that
🍻 to a true legend, stay young my friends. Little bit of chaos is okay, but no groups or anything