The Josh Innes Show - Teenagers Almost Die Over Prank

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

This seems like a weekly occurrence. I keep reading stories about teenagers getting shot at over stupid pranks. Look, I'm not some stick in the mud. But, here's a good way to avoid getting shot at...stop doing dumb shit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's a headline for you, and I feel like we've done this story or something very similar to it. Headlines reads, California father opened fire at teenagers who egged his house, reports say. A Northern California father is accused of shooting in a vehicle occupied by three teenage boys who had thrown eggs at his house and poured oil over his porch, according to local reports. The alleged incident occurred on the morning of May 25th in San Mateo, California, authorities said. Officers investigated a shooting into an occupied vehicle stemming from alleged bullying and

or harassment. Ultimately, a person was placed under arrest for multiple violations, the San Mateo Police Department said in a statement on May 28. Luckily, no involved parties were injured, but the impact of bullying in this situation and many others like it will likely continue to significantly impact the involved parties for some time. We talked about one a couple weeks ago, right? Where some kids were doing the ding-dong ditch thing and like a guy came out and shot and killed one of them and they were doing a TikTok thing. You would think at some point these dumb kids are

going to learn that you're going to die. these dumb kids are going to learn that you're going to die. Now, I'm not saying it's the right move to take. Like it's a very like, hey, watch this shit. I'm going to shoot your ass type of move. I'm not saying it's justified. I'm not saying if he would have killed the kids, those kids should have been shot and killed because they egged someone's house. killed because they egged someone's house. But if they were, I'd have a hard time going. Like, like, I would

probably look at that and go, don't fuck with people in 2025 because 2025 is a seriously fucked up time. And I wouldn't fuck with somebody who like I'm not throwing eggs at someone's house in 2025 when people are getting plugged all the fucking time and tensions are at a high I ain't pulling that stuff let's play some commercials and we'll continue I think that's the thing is like you know you watch old movies and you see people egging houses toilet paper in houses whatever and it's you know tale as old as time shit that high school kids and other people have done forever but like it's just not a smart

thing to do because people are kind of emboldened to just pull out their guns and shoot people and you don't want to die over throwing eggs at someone's house like if I had kids I'd sit them all down when they are of a certain age or just basically every day of their lives, I would sit them down from like whatever age they're able to comprehend. I would sit them down and say, here's a couple of things you shouldn't do. Don't fuck with other people's shit. Don't fuck with their houses. Don't go near their cars. If you're in traffic, don't like make any sort of gesture towards anybody. Don't do any of this shit because people are going to shoot you and if you

find the right court they might actually get away with shooting you so don't do it. Now if someone breaks into someone's house and they get shot fuck them right like whatever you shouldn't be shot for egging someone's house but actually you should get the fuck kicked out of you, but it's something that people have done forever and it is what it is and it's lame and whatever, but like, do you really want to die over this kind of shit? Craig Steven Masselli, 54, was charged with three counts of assault with a firearm and additional firearm enhancements, one count of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle, one count of illegal assault weapon.

Wow, one count of illegal assault weapon. Did this guy try to take them out with like an AK or something like that? Shit. Dude pulls out like an AK and he's like fucking playing gold night with these doofs that egged his house. Pop, pop, pop, pop. In one count of possessing an assault weapon online court show, he pleaded not guilty to all charges during his arraignment on May 27th. How do you plead not guilty to having a possession of an assault weapon? They either know you had it or you didn't. Prosecutors accused Maselli of opening fire in an SUV carrying three boys ages 16 and 17 on May 25th. The Mercury News and KRON-TV reported. Maselli told police officers that the teen's pranks had angered him and that his daughter had been a victim of bullying at the school.

The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office said, See, now you're going to play that angle. Like again, like I'm sorry that your daughter was bullied by somebody at school and that sucks if that were the case. Like hey bullying is not nice and it sucks that these dudes threw eggs at your house but the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Like had these bully boys that were 16 and 17 beat your daughter mercilessly committed a a sexual crime towards her, done something like that, you wanted to come out and shoot them, I'd say, you know what, you're

still going to jail, but I'd at least view you as justified, right? Like you see those kind of stories, like, you know, like, what's the damn, you know, like Death Wish or something, right? Like where the guy's wife is murdered or whatever, his wife and daughter are raped, murdered, whatever, and he just becomes a vigilante that wants to take out all the fucking bad guys. Like, while it's fucking cool and while we sit there in our own little white guy world and we're like, fucking Charles Bronson, man, take these motherfuckers out. It's justified.

Then you're like, at the end of the day, it's still a crime that you killed all of these people. You're not a police officer. You're a vigilante. So like, there are times when you see somebody get their comeuppance and you say, oh, they certainly deserve that, but it doesn't change the fact that it is still a crime and you will probably be going to jail. So while these guys may have bullied or harassed your daughter, I don't know to what extent they did this allegedly, and then they egged your house shooting at them is probably not going to be one that a court's going to look at and

go we feel like that was justified. You know, that's just a dad standing up for his daughter. What if he would have killed these dudes? Maselli was ordered to have no contact with the three teens and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for June 9th according to online court records following his arrest, Maselli remained in custody on $25,000 bail, but records show he had posted bail on May 29th. The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to USA Today's request for comment on May 29th. The San Mateo Police Department declined to further comment on the case, citing the District Attorney's Office handling of the case.

San Mateo is an affluent city located in Northern California and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan region. The three boys had spent the last weekend driving around San Mateo, quote, pulling pranks on classmates from Hillsdale High School, the district attorney's office told the Mercury News and Cron TV. In one instance, prosecutors said the teens traveled to Maselli's home on May 23rd and spread oil on the porch. Why? Like, why would they? Like, I just don't understand. I'm not trying to be lame here. I'm not trying to be like old man yells at cloud or like Bootsy calls me like

the crazy uncle on Facebook that's got nothing but conspiracy theories and all that shit. But like I feel like people are smarter than they used to be. They're dumber and smarter at the same time, right? Because now you see what's happening. Like if you lived in a small town back in like the 1970s, you didn't see internet stories of people getting plugged for throwing eggs at people's houses. You didn't see them because they weren't available to you because those happen thousands of miles away from your home and you're not reading the newspaper in the small town that's a thousand miles from your house,

right? Well, now you see these stories everywhere. They're all over the internet. They're all over USA Today. They're all over every website. So you know that fucking with somebody has a very good possibility of wrecking your life to the point that someone plugs you. And for what? Because it's funny that you threw some fucking oil on someone's porch and then you threw eggs at their house. Why are you pressing these people? People are fucking nuts. They are crazy. Why would you

put yourself into the line of fire for these people? There was a story, and I'm sure we've referenced this on here, but there was a time back when I was on 790 in Houston, this is right at like the apex, the height of the Kaepernick stuff. And there was a small like youth football league team in Beaumont, like I'm talking like six, seven-year-old kids, maybe a little bit older. And they were taking a knee during the national anthem

during their little league football games and their coaches. And all it felt like was the coaches trying to be cool and have a moment. And I'm like, and of course a lot of people in Beaumont were not happy about this. Beaumont is not exactly a place that seems like a bastion of social openness or open-mindedness, right? we're not happy about this. Beaumont is not exactly a place that seems like a bastion of like

social, you know, openness or open-mindedness, right? Like it's right around where Viator is and Viator's had some of the worst fucking race crimes ever, all that shit. So I was on the air talking about this and I'm like, why would you needlessly put your kids or anybody else in harm's way or make them the center of something super controversial. There's no benefit. What benefit is it for your six-year-old kid who has zero grasp of what's happening here, like sit there with his fist in the air? Like what exactly are you accomplishing there, right? And that's kind of how I feel here. And I know it sounds

ridiculous because everybody's pulled pranks forever and that's what. Again, not trying to sound super lame here right but when you're fucking with people's stuff and people feel emboldened to just shoot people now that's kind of the way the world is like it's kind of the Wild West don't put yourself in those positions I'm telling I don't have kids this is what I would tell them do not put yourself in positions to get shot. And I've done some dumb shit when I was a kid, but I was never someone that was going to do like that, like eggs. I've never egged

someone's house. Again, hey, you're a lame-o. I've never egged someone's house. You know, you might like put something stupid in a mailbox, you might ring the doorbell and run. I've done that type of shit before. I told you that I had the universal remote control and went to the neighbor's house through their window and just kept changing the channel. Ah, good clean fun. But once you start fucking with people's property and you're throwing shit at their house, you're just giving them ammunition to take your ass out, man. And maybe that's just me being soft. Maybe that's me being a pussy because I'm not standing up and saying this is maybe but it's 2025 don't give yourself an opportunity or don't put yourself in position to get harmed by stupid people

by someone who's like oh you're egging my house watch this shit don't put yourself in that position and then you won't get plugged and every now and then I'll get worked out like I've told told you about this neighborhood that pisses me off and I'm in if I'm in the right mood and I'm angry enough like if a car blows through a stop sign I'll like fucking yell as they're driving by and maybe one day they'll stop and want to start a fight with me. It just depends on the kind of mood I'm in if I've had like a fucking and that's the other key you don't know what kind of mood someone's in on a given day. You might put oil on that

dude's porch the day that he you know fucking lost his job or his wife was fucking the mailman or whatever and uh-oh you picked the wrong day asshole. You picked the falling down day where Michael Douglas just finally snaps and just starts taking out everybody and you may have picked that day and you don't know it's that day but it's that day. I ain't fucking with people man like I'm just trying to mind my own damn business go find a job and go about my life and you know wait to die. I know that's not exactly an uplifting message. Hey kids go get a job and sit around and wait to die. It'll happen to all of us at some point but you don't want to die prematurely because you threw eggs at some dipshit's house and he pulled out a gun and shot you. And maybe

25 years ago it was harmless. Dude, like you have to know your surroundings. It's important to know your surroundings and adjust for it. Those 16, 17 year old kids could be dead overthrowing eggs at someone's house. The absurdity of the whole thing is crazy. But you want to know how you can avoid getting shot by egging someone's house? If you want to go to the root of it, don't egg someone's house. This isn't overly difficult. This is not hard to comprehend.

Don't throw shit at people's houses. Just like, hey, the burglar got shot. Hey, you want to know how you don't get shot? Don't burglarize the home. It's not difficult. Again, not defending the shooter. The guy's clearly a lash-la-roo who spurs or jingling in a jangling. I mean, in that case you're just looking to shoot someone. You're just angry. But what the fuck are we doing, man? All right, more to come.