Memphis Teen Shot In Behind Over Saggy Pants

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If your pants are hanging so low that your under drawers are showing, a cranky middle aged man might shoot you in the ass:

Anger over a Memphis teenager’s sagging pants ended with gunfire, a bullet to the buttocks and an aggravated assault charge.

Police Sgt. Ron Perry says 45-year-old Kenneth E. Bonds saw two male teens walking along a street and yelled at them to pull up their pants. Perry says they refused, the three began arguing and Bonds brandished a pistol.

The first shot missed. The teens fled, more rounds were fired and a 17-year-old was struck in the buttocks. He went to a hospital in non-critical condition.

And thus endeth the lesson.

via Radley Balko

8 responses to “Memphis Teen Shot In Behind Over Saggy Pants”

  1. It’s funny because it’s non-critical.

  2. Has the man been charged with reckless assault or anything like that? While this is mildly amusing, I do find the idea that a man can shoot a child anywhere on their body (without justifiable reason) and not be charged with a crime more than a bit disturbing.

  3. @Neil Hudelson: The opening sentence of the report implies that Bonds was charged with aggravated assault.

  4. ***It wasn’t this guy?***The general is like 64 and one of our greatest poets, he don’t need a gun, he uses a pen!!!!!

  5. Aggravated assault? For shooting someone? How does that not garner an attempted murder charge?

  6. Aggravated assault? For shooting someone? How does that not garner an attempted murder charge?

    You’re the one with the law degree! Maybe Memphis has a “needed shooting” defense? Or maybe the “pistol” was a pellet gun? Or shooting someone in the butt is considered evidence of intent to injure rather than kill?

  7. My pride in my hometown continues unabated.