Neighbors Duke It Out in Suburban Gunfight Over Kid’s Baseball Throw

By John Falkenberg

DELTONA, FL — A man lost a portion of his finger thanks to an argument started between two neighbors over, of all things, a kid throwing a baseball against a fence.

Technically, we’ve got a case of armed home and self-defense here, but it’s really hard to want to champion either party’s cause.

As The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports:

Gregory Castellanos, 41, had no idea Thursday afternoon when he built his 9-year-old son a pitching mound in the backyard of his Howland Boulevard home, carefully measured out the correct distance to the plate, and then marked a “strike zone” with painter’s tape on the wooden fence separating his property from his neighbors, that just an hour later he’d be sitting in the emergency room with part of his hand blown off.

But that fence belonged to his neighbor who was — just a bit farther away than the pitchers mound’s length to the north — trying to enjoy the tranquility of his own backyard as the pitches started hitting the fence.

The argument began around 4 p.m. when Matthew Karnes, 46, said he asked Castellanos’ son to stop throwing a baseball at his fence.

Castellanos told Volusia County sheriff’s investigators …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation