The continuing saga of pellet gun kid

This morning, the father of Mark Penley (the wanker who painted his pellet gun to look indifferent from a real 9mm and took it to school) says he told the police his son wasn't a danger and that it was a pellet gun. He's now got a lawyer which means he's either going to sue the police for shooting a kid who was mouthing off at them and waving a gun at them, or he's going to sue the manufacturers of the pellet gun for making it look so real.
Look Mr Penley. It's tragic that your son was an idiot and got himself shot by the police. But face it - if you're the frontline SWAT guy and you get the message from the kid's father that the gun isn't real, yet when you've instructed the kid to put it down and he hasn't and is waving it at you, who are you going to believe? I know who I'd believe - the kid with the gun.
His friends described him as "a nice quiet kid" this morning which is doublespeak for "psycho in the making". I think the Penleys are going to have to come to terms with the fact that a Playstation, a TV, endless meals at McDonalds and a nanny probably aren't the best way to bring up a child. My guess is they probably had him on drugs for something too.

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