Actually, a nine-year-old could legitimately fall for Obama's bullcrap. This would make it self-motivated. Anyways, moving on.

I'm a believer in defend yourself laws. If somebody you don't know is entering your property, and stealing your things, then you have a right to take nonlethal methods to prevent it. If he's entering your actual local area or committing animal or sexual abuse, you have theright to take any methods to prevent it.

The wire looked pretty visible to me, and I believe he went into it himself. It could be early-onset masochism or stupidity.

Okay, all of you who think this is funny or are making excuses, I have a proposition for you.....

I will give $1,000.00 to anyone who can locate this guy's house, go into his front yard, and then grab and hold onto those electrified signs for five minutes.

Then I want you to tell the rest of us just how funny it is.

Any takers?

Let me rephrase that, "It's frowned upon."  Rule of law essentially, if we all started taking the law into our own hands, then there goes our entire law system and civil order.

Don't be ignorant.  Putting up a fence is hardly taking the law into his own hands.  In fact, lots of people use fences to protect their property.  Crazy radical ain't it?

Really?  Is that what he did?  Funny.  Looked like he just put an electric dog fence on his own property to me.

Oh puh-lease.  We have exactly that around our garden all summer long to keep deer out.  Our kids have brushed up against it several times and are far from traumatized about it.  

The fences are meant to be painful, and the kid didn't hold it for five minutes so what is the point of anyone else doing it?

Here's a novel idea.  The parents should teach their children not to trespass onto other people's property. 

No, what I am "offering" is reality.  I don't know what alternate universe you live in, but most people have lives and jobs..and the man stated in the article HE DIDN'T KNOW WHO WAS DOING IT.  He wasn't home when this occurred and in fact wasn't home the third time it happened after he took the fence down.  Thieves and vandals are funny like that, waiting until they know the owner is gone before perpetrating the crime. 

How dare the owner not quit his job to find out who is stealing his stuff.  THE GALL!

I want to be clear, I am NOT advocating shocking kids as punishment.  I AM advocating the man's right to put a fence up on his own property to protect his property.

I don't see many here (despite the title) taking humor in it. Personally I think it is sad a person has to take measures. What I see is an indifference to vandalism. The crime supporters here don't even mention the father of the shocked boy accosting the fence owners 9 year-old daughter. That must be OK, right? If more people protected their property the less likely crimes of this nature would happen (and the criminal supporters would have less to cry about). How many of you would complain if a man snatch a womans purse and was maced? It's non-lethal, but the effects last longer than this pet fence. Make no mistake the crimes are similar except the former includes trespassing.

Your wager is ridiculous, the purpose of the fence is to warn your pet (or anyone that can;t read in this case) away. It doesn't require holding onto it for 5 minutes. It give a tingling sensation I would equate to tapping a hard bristle hair brush lightly in your hand. The homeowner touched the fence himself to test it. But if someone wanted to spend five minutes looking foolish, I'm sure it would be the fastest lose of $1000 dollars outside of a casino. I just wish the guy would have left it up to get the woman that came by later to tear down his signs (caught on camera). Do you think they will arrest her for trespassing and vandalism? Not hardly, too many (like some here) are willing to look the other way. Wonder if you'll feel the same when it comes your way, or to a loved one. Let just hope nobody is seriously hurt then, as most know criminals have little regard for your safety when caught red-handed.

Well the small sum of $1K isn't enough to travel to the home of a person to touch a sign that is no longer electrified. However, if you are willing to go through with your offer, I have all of the supplies required (even a video camera for proof) and will gladly take your money.

You game? 

Lucas, you behave like a petulant child.  Why don't you go find some other children to play with?  You're embarrassing yourself here.

Did you realy just say that?

Do you ever question if it's just you?

Why is it always that no one around you 'gets it'?

Dude you totally missed the point of that question. When everyone around you is telling you that you stink, it's pretty damn likely that you stink even if you can't smell it. When no one 'gets it', maybe it isn't everyone else who has the issue. 

Boy this is going to be off topic. 

You never seem to get it Lucas. You keep reinventing yourself here at JU to be understood but every iteration of you leaves us with more questions. I hope you find the strength someday to stop. The regular folks at JU will never be able to look at a current comment from you without applying your past. I am predispositioned to think you are a fool. I don't know why I am even bothering to interact with you at all. Maybe it's because I am sick of seeing your new inventions.

I made no assumptions, you are just being Lucas (again), and throwing your little temper tantrum when you dont get yoru way.  Calling names so quickly?  I can see you are still the immature little whelp as always.  Just remember the 3 fingers, and get your head out of you.