Original title: Man practiced slingshot at home and smashed school property opposite and jailed for 10 months
Justice Online, February 1st (correspondent Shen Huanhuan) As soon as it was pulled and released, a steel ball was ejected arbitrarily. Chen stood by the kitchen window and practiced slingshot shooting. As everyone knows, the steel ball he launched broke one after another. The parking shed, door and window glass, basketball hoop glass on the campus opposite the north window of his home. Recently, the People’s Procuratorate of Jiading District, Shanghai, filed a public prosecution against the defendant Chen for the crime of provoking disturbances.
In August 2020, an infuriating incident occurred in a middle school in Jiading District. The parking shed, window glass, and basketball hoop glass on the campus were damaged one after another, and some steel balls were scattered on the ground near the crime scene. Through the damage marks on these steel balls and glass, the logistics teacher of the school realized that this was a slingshot. Yes, but the time period coincided with the summer vacation. The students had already gone home from vacation. It could not be a prank by the students, so they called the police. The next day, the police brought Chen to justice.
After understanding, Chen became obsessed with playing slingshots in July 2020, so during August, he successively purchased 4 handheld slingshots, 1 smoothbore slingshot, 1 crossbow, and several 6mm and 8mm steel balls. . In order to practice slingshot shooting daily, Chen chose to practice in the garden of his own community at first, and hung the target plate on the fence for directional shooting training. However, because of the large number of residents in the community garden, his behavior was dangerous and his neighbors complained. In desperation, he switched to training at home.
Since then, Chen stood at the window of the kitchen at home every morning, holding a slingshot to aim at the telephone poles and green belts on the opposite side and shooting.Although his wife had politely discouraged him, he did not take it seriously and still shot 20 times a day. It ranges from 30 steel balls. But as a beginner who has just been in contact with slingshot for more than a month, Chen’s skills are not superb. It is common for him to miss and miss hits. A middle school located near Chen’s community suffers because of this.
The kitchen windows of the school and Chen’s house are facing each other. Daily practice is likely to hit the property in the opposite school, but Chen did not realize this. In order to improve his slingshot skills, the enthusiastic Chen insisted on practicing almost every day. As everyone knows, in just one week, the steel balls he launched hit the parking shed, basketball rack glass, window glass and so on in the opposite school. Property, but he did not notice it, and Chen did not know about it until the incident occurred. During the interrogation, when the prosecutor asked if he had considered the consequences of his actions, Chen lowered his head and remained silent for a long time… But fortunately, the school was closed and no casualties were caused.
According to Chen’s account after arriving at the case, he only considered his own hobbies and did not take into account the dangers of practicing slingshot shooting and the unpredictable consequences that it might bring. Chen regrets this. After evaluation, Chen’s damaged parking shed, door and window glass, basketball frame glass, etc., are worth 3,000 yuan in total. After the incident, Chen paid compensation to the victim and obtained the other party’s understanding. However, his arbitrarily damaging other people’s property has violated the provisions of Article 293, Paragraph 1, Item (3) of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, and his criminal responsibility should be investigated for the crime of provoking troubles. Recently, the People’s Procuratorate of Jiading District prosecuted the defendant Chen for the crime of provoking disturbances. The people’s court pronounced in court and sentenced the defendant Chen to 10 months in prison.
The undertaking prosecutor pointed out that a small slingshot is powerful. The slingshot purchased by Chen in this case has a range of more than 100 meters. It is a fluke that no casualties were caused this time. Here, the prosecutor reminds all slingshot enthusiasts to practice this kind of dangerous equipment, and it is recommended to choose a professional and formal place to do it, which not only develops their hobbies well, but also ensures the safety of people and property.
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