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Your mother was right all along.........
Mothers all across the US were vindicated this week when their frequent warning was proven to be true: You'll put someone's eye out". The part she forgot to mention was landing in jail afterwards. 
"Jeffrey Figueroa, who made national headlines after he was convicted of two felonies for injuring a 14-year-old boy with the speedy spitball, was ordered to spend a spend a total of one week in juvenile detention -- logged on weekends.
"These kids aren't going to get into any trouble. We're going to keep them in the house," Jeffrey's father, Steve Figueroa, told reporters after the hearing, which also saw Jeffrey's 14-year-old brother given a slightly lesser sentence for egging Jeffrey on in the spitball incident.
In addition to their time in juvenile detention, both boys were ordered to attend anger management classes, told to obey a 7 p.m. curfew as part of home probation and instructed to undergo counseling.
They will both also be required to perform up to 150 hours of community service at a local eye bank.
Figueroa admitted that he shot the spitball -- a gum wrapper moistened with saliva -- on the first day of school last September at a middle school in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek, California.
While Figueroa said he was not aiming at anybody in particular, the spitball hit a 14-year-old boy in the right eye, requiring a trip to the hospital and surgery.
Last month Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Araceli Ramirez found Jeffrey guilty of battery causing serious bodily injury and mayhem, both felonies. His brother was found guilty on a lesser charge."
The rest of the story is here: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/06/cri...eut/index.html
"Jeffrey Figueroa, who made national headlines after he was convicted of two felonies for injuring a 14-year-old boy with the speedy spitball, was ordered to spend a spend a total of one week in juvenile detention -- logged on weekends.
"These kids aren't going to get into any trouble. We're going to keep them in the house," Jeffrey's father, Steve Figueroa, told reporters after the hearing, which also saw Jeffrey's 14-year-old brother given a slightly lesser sentence for egging Jeffrey on in the spitball incident.
In addition to their time in juvenile detention, both boys were ordered to attend anger management classes, told to obey a 7 p.m. curfew as part of home probation and instructed to undergo counseling.
They will both also be required to perform up to 150 hours of community service at a local eye bank.
Figueroa admitted that he shot the spitball -- a gum wrapper moistened with saliva -- on the first day of school last September at a middle school in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek, California.
While Figueroa said he was not aiming at anybody in particular, the spitball hit a 14-year-old boy in the right eye, requiring a trip to the hospital and surgery.
Last month Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Araceli Ramirez found Jeffrey guilty of battery causing serious bodily injury and mayhem, both felonies. His brother was found guilty on a lesser charge."
The rest of the story is here: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/06/cri...eut/index.html
They took my nephew by the arms and legs and tryed to throw him up on the bed by each grabbing a leg and arm. Well they missed and damn near broke his nose on the side of the bed. Well this was the last straw. So i took each of them aside and calmly explained that everytime they think they want to "Just have fun" Stand there a moment and think of all the things bad that can happen by thier actions. Then i simply told them you will never have fun again but at least you wont accidentely kill or hurt someone very badly. Since then i have had no more incidents that have hurt either them or my nephew. And i didnt even have to put the smack down on them. 
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