It sounds like you entered the place illegally and did a job nobody else wanted to do...

There’s also a hell of a lot of difference between “we were just trying to make some money for food” and conning your friends out of $5 apiece when your dad is a billionaire. 

That’s not even remotely sleazy. You did the work that the people who bought their golf balls back from you were unwilling to do. They weren’t paying for the golf balls so much as they were paying you for fishing them out.

Well, first of all those people you sold the balls to knew where you got them, and they bought them because it was cheaper than buying new ones. Plus, whether they ever let on to you or not that they knew you were selling them their own stuff, they liked your salesmanship and wanted to encourage it.

Dude aimed a gun at people and threatened to shoot. He has a couple other charges in there. I’d say 13 years is just about right.

Not really. One reason behavior like this is illegal is because it can rapidly turn violent. This is the South, after all—lots of people have guns on them or nearby. Under different circumstances, this could have turned into a gun battle with multiple people getting killed. That no one was injured here is, IMO, a…