How would you have reacted?

[THEFERMANATOR]

My neighbor has some kids watching his place as his wife is sick and he has been over at his other house and in the hospital with his wife. To date these kids have just been your average teenagers out mudbogging in the lake at night and other mischief. Well earlier this week the water in the lake got high enough that a gator moved in, and these kids decided they wated to get the gator. Earlier tonight they were trying to shoot the damn thing at about 30 yards with a 22 rifle and one ricocheted off the gator and hit my moms house. Needless to say I lost it and basically threatened to bash there heads in if they ever used a gun in a stupid unsafe manner. This of course was when they got smart with me and denied trying to shoot the gator when my wife and mother both watched them do it. I know I shouldn't go loosing my tempur, but when I find out a bullet ricocheted off my moms house with my mom and wife down there, I pretty well went into orbit as one might would say.

Then to top it off I find out the kid is only 17, yet he doesn't go to school or anything, and now his mom is threatening to call the cops on me. I basically told her if the kid is dumb enough to fire a gun at water where bullets can bounce off(yet she swears a bullet can't bounce off of water), then he's mature enough to get an *** woopin. The wife went off on me of course saying you can't do things like that, but it's just how I am. After it happened I called the property owner and he said he would be up tommorrow, but said you gotta do what you gotta do. And he fully understands and said he would probably have reacted the same way.

Just wondering if I'm a complete loose cannon, or if others would have reacted the same way. I know when Iwas 17 I would have expected a serious woopin from anybody if I would have done something that stupid, but the kids mom says "he gots enough gun smarts"(these were her exact words) to know better than to do something like that. Is it just me or have most people lost all common sense?