Soulja Boy’s Potential Assassin Finds Supporters In Local Comment Section

By now you’ve probably heard the story of the 12-year-old kid who tried to kill Soulja Boy by throwing a rock through his tour bus when it was parked outside a hotel in Bloomington, Ill., and how, when confronted by the police about his crime, the rascal simply replied “I hate Soulja Boy.” Instead of the finger-wagging and “what about the children” mau-mauing that a crime incorporating both vandalism and a preteen’s murderous impulses might normally attract from a Web site’s comments section, this news elicited quite a few “go on, get ‘im!” responses from readers of the local paper:

The first comment did much to set the tone:

Michael wrote on Mar 21, 2008 6:05 PM:

” I hate Souljaboy too, and I’m in my 50s. “

It took three comments for someone to maybe think that the kid was guilty of something:

buckeye wrote on Mar 21, 2008 7:44 PM:

” This boy should be arrested , wasting a perfectly good rock, its crimminal. “

But then someone said that the kid didn’t go far enough in his attempts to brain Soulja Boy:

laurenmarie123 wrote on Mar 22, 2008 11:36 PM: ” This kid should be awarded a medal of honor. I applaud him and next time he should use a brick for more damage. “

The lone voice of reason?

Hurried_Hwfe wrote on Mar 22, 2008 9:08 AM:

” I lik’em. I’m in my 60’s. Get that kid in control! “

I’ll let her misuse of apostrophes slide, if only because reading these comments made me feel like a reality-TV remake of The Lottery (perhaps with “Yahhh!” running over the closing credits?) isn’t too far off.

Police: Boy threw rock through Soulja Boy’s windshield [Pantagraph.com]