Because it’s the games fault that a guy went outside and shot at innocent people because he heard a few words that they were saying.

From their perspective, his story, some guy with a gun suddenly appeared and was mugging them.

Even if he had clearly and correctly heard them saying “did you get anything?” he was not right to draw on them.

I know this is just going to be used as another excuse for people to dogpile on and repeat gun control memes, but even so this guy is flatly in the wrong for apparently going in front of somebody’s car and brandishing on them and giving them orders.

Florida’s police records are way more accessible than other states so it’s much easier for news organizations to get a hold of stories like this.

If you are in your car late at night and some lunatic points a handgun at you and says don’t move are you going to hang around? I’m going to punch it. I’m not going to try and hit the guy because I want to get the hell out of there.

Florida Man is the superhero we don’t need or deserve, nor would even like to hear of.

There is no allegation that the players trespassed. Even in the homeowner’s account, they were parked on the street. At which point he pointed his gun at them. The homeowner is entirely in the wrong here, even if the kids tried to run him over (which they had every right to do at that point).

From what I can judge though, the man was trying to disable the car by shooting at the trunk/tires.
What I don’t understand, is that if he was under threat of “robbery”, then when why would he try to stop “escaping” thieves in a car unless something was actually stolen? A lot of stuff doesn’t logically make sense here…

Considering even the url spells it ‘Flordia’ I guess we can count it was a seperate beast.

What the fuck is wrong with people? This man needs to be arrested, it isn’t 1880s Wild Wild West. And it isn’t Pokemon Go’s fault - they could have easily been making a phone call, looking at Google Maps because they were lost, or even pulled over to take a quick nap because they were on a road trip and decided to not…

The rest of the states don’t seem to be any better.

I can believe that they’d miss them. I imagine they were quite panicked. When you’re panicked, you tend to block out everything that isn’t vital information for survival (or at least, what your monkey brain thinks is vital information). This could easily cause them to not hear the impact pings. If their home wasn’t…

San Diego isn’t so much better... this drunk driver thinks a public road is his own driveway and tries to run over a photographer.

if they were parked in the street then that is not his property, the road is public property and they have the right to park there if they want.

Please dont lump the rest of the country with Florida. Its Florida FFS! Haven’t you seen the shitshow news that comes out of that state?

If only they had had guns themselves - they could’ve shot back and defended themselves!

So he shot at people who just happened to be parked in front of his house.... So why should people have guns again? They weren’t even on his property and he started open firing at people. Funny how two people were together, they were parked, they weren’t playing while driving, they were aware of their surroundings,…

This isn’t even that Florida. This could’ve been any other state. Also no meth was involved so as a Floridian, I don’t think this is qualified to be labeled as a Florida Man story.

The adventures of Florida Man continues!

“Florida Man feeds pet alligator pizza. Florida Man drives car into McDonald’s for a burger. Florida Man robs liquor store with chicken leg.”