was this wrong?!

[Scouts Out]

You know when I was single I would have been all for it. Not all that long ago when my kids were smaller (4 and 5) we were on the way home after dark from a Disney flick at a local theater in my Cherokee when we passed a car sitting off the two lane country road a few feet with three guys sitting around it. I slowed down thinking they may need help but they instead thru a beer bottle at my car so I drove off grabbing my cell and calling the local police. Before I can connect the call the car is behind me , no lights on weaving back and forth. I sped up trying not to alarm my sleeping kids but they remained on my ass so I slowed and slid to the side of the road and they blew past me tossing another beer bottle. Luckily they were drunk and it missed my Cherokee so I continued on and they had slowed on the road and two kids were leaning out the back window tossing bottles at me so I slowed even more. My kids were thankfully asleep. they slowed more and I slowed more. By now I had finished the call and of course our local police were in and neighboring borough but were in route. They were driving a car with a handicapped liscense plate to top it off. they then stopped their car so I locked the 4 wheel drive in and turned off the road climbed a small muddy back and drove across a farmers freshly picked corn field. As I looked back I see the driver had a pistol out and is firing it in the air. I get about half way across the the corn field and see the Pontiac station wagon trying to cross the field only to get stuck in the field. About now I also see the police car approaching so I pull back on the road and meet my local friendly officer. I update him on the pistol so he lights them up with his spot ligh and as we sit there we see the driver throw the pistol and the other kids tossing the beer cans. He calls back up and I take my sleeping kids home.

The next day I get a call from the officer to tell me that the one kid was from a rich high school about 30 miles away while the other two are from a neighboring high school. They were in the drivers mom's car which was totalled in the cross field drive. The driver had a stolen pistol which they recovered. the other two kids were charged with underage drinking and possession of weed. They wrote statements about the driver's actions. The driver was 17 but sentenced as an adult to 5 years. The father of the one passanger came to see me and brought his son who apoligized very sincerely.

I have just come to the conclusion there are way too many nuts out there cause I know if I had not had my kid I would have stop to confront them that night.