"Get off my lawn" took a frightening turn when Wisconsin man John A. Kolar decided to stop students from Baraboo High School from TPing his house. The man showed up in camouflage sporting a flamethrower.
Seeing the flames, the students turned around their jeep and tried to drive away, but Kolar sprayed fire at the road in front of them, and then two other neighbors got involved. One jumped in front of the jeep and spread out his arms yelling for them to stop.
Video of the event shows two of the men ordering the students out of the car and onto the ground; two of the students ran for it, and the other two complied and got on their knees.
The video was taken at night so it's not easy to see the details, but it shows just how fast things escalated.
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Kolar then apparently held the flamethrower pointed at their heads, and one of the neighbors said that they were being lawfully detained in a citizens' arrest.
The third neighbor, high school Athletics Director James Langkamp, can be heard on the video quietly talking to the teens and his neighbors. It's not clear what he's saying, but according to the report he claims to be telling them to let the teens go.
However, the boys and the two other men said that Langkamp was part of the stop, so all three adults were arrested and charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety, disorderly conduct, and false imprisonment.
