What really happened before the arrow was shot.
Posted on 11/04/2016 1:10:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An 8-year-old Amboy, Minnesota boy is in the hospital after he was accidently struck by an arrow Thursday afternoon, according to the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office says shortly before 4:37 p.m. the boy was accidentally shot with an arrow by his brother, who was shooting bow and arrow at a target.
The victim was taken by helicopter to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, where he is in serious but stable condition.
The incident remains under investigation.
Accident my butt.
What weight weight of bow? What type arrow head? Target bow? Hunting bow? Toy bow? Not enough info!
I’ve been hit twice with toy bows and target arrows. It hurts but will not penetrate.
A hunting bow and hunting arrow is another matter!
Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
That I have shot mine arrow o’er the house
And hurt my brother.
An 8 year old boy is a sheriff? That great! But if he is going to live till 12, he’s going to have to learn to dodge those arrows.
/ The Far Side
When I was a kid I shot another boy in the side of the head with a bow and arrow. I was shooting in a ditch and he happen to run across just as I shot. Hit him square in the Head (temple). Luckily he was OK but left a nasty scar.
He died a couple months later when he ran in front of a truck in the street, I kid you not. Mom said the scar was still on side of his head at the viewing. Never will forget.
Little kids do stupid things without any thought or knowledge of consequences......
That's why they are considered "little kids"....
Accident my butt.
Little kids do stupid things without any thought or knowledge of consequences......
That’s why they are considered “little kids”....
Exactly, Read my post #7 above as proof.
Me, too.
As my buddy was headed home one afternoon, running across our 2-acre field, my 8-year old self thought it would be cool to scare him a bit. So I sent one way up in the air quite a ways out from him. Naturally, it suddenly impersonated a heat-seeking missile and curved right into his path.
Hit him right on the temple over a half acre away. That was the most frightened I’d ever been; I thought I’d killed him. Fortunately, they were blunt-headed arrows and the bow pull was extremely light. He merely had a small cut that was easily attended.
To this day, I’ve never had the urge to shoot another bow.
Wow - Not bad.
Oh... SHAKESPEARE.
You misread ...
When I was 11 Y.O, I had seen a TV program the night before (Effraim Zimbalist? Man Against Science?) which started with a rocket sled going down a rail track in the desert? One episode was about a drug they gave to Cops which made their perception of time slow down. One scientist took the drug and could catch arrows in flight. Guess what? I told my older brother to shoot an arrow at me to see if I could catch it! Thank God we only had target arrows. It went through my forearm and hit a rib, bounced off and the worst punishment was my old man beating my ass. We drove to the EM (NO 911 or other pussy BS) and Dad took the Bow away and punished my bother, also. Hell Larry was so stupid the Old Man should have left him alone.
Let’s hope the eight year old doesn’t go on a revenge spree.
If the victim was the target the brother shot at, then he hit his target.
i saw that show and episode as well. but it was :
The Man and the Challenge is a 36-segment half-hour television adventure/science fiction series which ran new episodes on NBC from September 12, 1959, to June 11, 1960. It starred George Nader as Dr. Glenn Barton, a research scientist for the Institute of Human Factors, an agency that conducted experiments designed to measure human endurance for the United States government. The series was produced by Ivan Tors.[1]
I also remember that episode. for some reason i never forgot it.
THANK YOU!! I couldn’t remember the name!.. Have to look it up tonight. I always remembered that episode when the SHTF and time slows down just before you get the hell out of the way or over come the challenge. You never caught an arrow, did you?
Amboy is one of the four towns that made up the school district from which I graduated, I’m surprised my mom hasn’t called yet to tell me who it is.
My husband still has a scar on his cheek from an arrow shot by one of his older brothers. Hope this kid will come out alright from this.
Guess who was the cowboy and who was the indian?
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