Golfers Arrested For Hitting Teen Who Sounded Air Horns

[longnecker]

Two retired golfers were arrested for repeatedly hitting a teenage boy with a ball finder after he and his friends sounded air horns during their ninth hole tee off, according to Okaloosa County deputies.
Donald Nieto and Ronald Richardson, both 71, were arrested last week and face a charge of child cruelty without great harm, according to an arrest report. The pair has since been released from jail.
Nieto and Richardson told Okaloosa County deputies that the 14-year-old boy and his friends were blowing air horns at the golfers at Shalimar Pointe Country Club.
The pair said they approached the kids at a fence, but they ran away. The golfers admitted to hitting the boy who ran back to the fence to get his jacket, the report said.
The boy's father reported the incident to police. The golfers were identified by the club manager while still at the course.
Richardson told deputies that he hit the boy three or four times on his back, but did not feel threatened by the boy, the report said.
A video of the event was filmed by one of the boy's friends and posted on YouTube. It was confirmed by a sheriff's office official as being authentic.
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[Bellicose]

Kids get what they deserved, but then again it is just a stupid prank. Annoying yet stupid. I would of just tee'd up a fee balls and fired them right at them, then took my swing, and moved on.

I just wonder what the dad said to the kid about what he was doing. I am imagining my dad saying, well what were you doing, I would tell him, and then he would say well your the dumbass. Guess you won't do that again will you....lol

[Tralee]

Bellicose, I would have done the same, "oops, sorry kids, I have a wild drive" would have been my excuse. That was just rude and the little charmers knew it, I saw something similar when I was playing at Bidermann one day, a car drove by on Adams Dam Rd. and just as some guys were about to putt blew their horn over and over again. Nasty! One time at a club (on open day) some men kept hitting into us, and I and my friends play fast ( I HATE slow play!) so we weren't holding them up, (as a matter of fact the caddy master at our club has told men, who always think women are slow, that if they were held up behind me and my group it was because WE were being held up!), I "Accidentally" hit the wrong ball, who knew? and drove it well into the rough before I realized that it wasn't my ball. Darn, what a shame. It was worth the penalty. They stopped hitting into us pretty quickly. Golf is supposed to be a polite sport.

[Bellicose]

Supposed to be a polite sport, and no need for me to lie about my drive, it tends to go wherever it wants too anyway. I could prove it to them with the slightest of ease....lol

I hate when people give you a hard time about asking to play through. Um hello, you have a foursome, and I am alone. I should not have to ask, you should just let me play through. Drives me insane!

I know whenever I go out, even with my buddy, if someone catches us pretty quick. When we get to the next tee box, we wait. they finish putting, and we say play through if you would like. they kindly say thanks, and we say no problem, we could use the downtime...lol

[Josef]

Golf is supposed to be a polite sport.

You forgot that golf is also considered a men's sport for the most part, and most men are douchebags.

[Tralee]

You forgot that golf is also considered a men's sport for the most part, and most men are douchebags.

Yeah, maybe about a hundred years ago it was, no longer. It's pretty much 50/50 nowadays and we get out more often during the week.