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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What time is the snipe hunt next weekend??
We’re the reddest state in the United States. But not everyone here has “it all figured out” :)
LOL I bet booze *was* involved.
Sasquatch Season don’t open until December in Oklahoma.
There you go.... I thought it was before Deer season. :)
Who goes sasquatch hunting sober?
Was the sasquatch hurt?
No... but it’s gonna be one of those commercials... “messing with Sasquatch”
Idiots. That’s damn near in the city.
Everyone knows bigfoot is located in parts around Albert, Poteou and other parts of Eastern Oklahoma.
Hell, I could swear I saw bigfoot on the edges of Lake Ten Killer once.
Of course they were arrested! Everybody knows this is bow season and they were out there with guns! Must have been drinking the swill again.
It would take some liquid courage to hunt bigfoot with a bow don’t you know....
That’s right .. LOL.
They might have come across a moonshiner’s still.
Probably code speak for “deer poaching at night”
yep... at night and out of season
You’re right. Oklahoma didn’t have a single county go for the Sasquatch’s husband.
Well? Did they get him?
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