Posted on 11/03/2013 5:27:06 PM PST by kjam22
ROGERS COUNTY, Oklahoma - Rogers County Sheriff's Department arrested three people in what appears to be an accidental shooting. One of the men told deputies he'd shot his friend while the two were on a Sasquatch hunting expedition. The two men were hunting - apparently for Bigfoot - around 177th East Avenue and Tiger Switch Road Saturday night. Omar Pineda reportedly heard a "barking noise," jerked and shot his friend in the back, authorities say.
"When you start off with an explanation like that, do you believe anything after that?" Sheriff Walton said Sunday morning.
The men met emergency responders at a QuikTrip near Interstate 44 and 161st Street. The wounded man is expected to survive.
Pineda, 21, was arrested for reckless conduct with a firearm and obstruction.
Deputies also arrested Perry Don James, Pineda's father-in-law. James threw his son-in-law's gun in a pond on the property because he is a convicted felon and was afraid to have the gun on his property, the Sheriff said.
James, 53, was booked on complaints of felon in possession of a firearm and destruction of evidence.
The shooting victim was also carrying a gun, though he dropped it when he got shot, according to a news release. That gun has been recovered.
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Maybe he was a police academy dropout...
I don't think you can get that drunk off of 3.2 beer...
I presume Sasquatch got away ... again.
I’ve never particularly associated Oklahoma with Sasquatch sightings. Especially on 177th Street? What, were these guys stupid to begin with and also bombed out of their skulls? Heard a barking noise, turned around and shot his friend in the back? Sounds like a tragicomic farce sendup of a bad horror movie.
Good fishing over there.
Heck, fishing is good everywhere.
Was Michelle in the area?
Home brew...has to be ...:o)
Or a beer run in to Coffeevile or Joplin every week ... LOL !
“Probably code speak for “deer poaching at night””
I believe you’ve got it.
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