A two-year-old child hurls his dinner plate at the wall and gets hauled away to quiet time and whatever other punishment his parents deem appropriate. He is taught that we must eat the food put before us, unless, of course, someone drops asparagus on my plate, and then you'll see some flying greenery. There are limits, after all.
Same way when Dennis The Menace, Jr, runs around the neighborhood winging other kids or someone's patio window with his slingshot or pea shooter or whatever. He will learn his lesson when a deputized squad of bigger kids gets ahold of him and his bike and his weapon, and he enters a reeducation program that will likely involve opening a can of whoopass, which might involve the administration of purple nurples.
In this way, young men learn the dangers and consequences of an errant lifestyle, the hope being that by the time they reach 81 years of age, they don't have to be arrested for going around striking residential windows, denting car windshields, and shooting off pellets a bit too close to several neighbors out in Azusa, California.
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| The search of the Kingdom |
But such a felony spree took place over like 10 years, so the Azusa Police Department termed it a “quality of life issue” victimizing dozens of citizens over the decade.
Warrant in hand, police appeared at the residence of one Prince King. They found the slingshot and ball bearings there.
Lt. Jake Bushey of the APD says no injuries were reported in all this.
“It’s been ongoing for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was,” Bushey says, adding that no one has any idea why the man was doing this juvenile prank as his his 70s turned into his 80s.
“We’re not aware of any kind of motive other than just malicious mischief.”
If I may hazard a guess, maybe it's the result of a lifetime of confusion over whether he's a Prince or a King.
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