Posted on 09/19/2016 2:40:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
FARMINGTON, Minn.—A man shooting at squirrels with a pellet gun on his property caused confusion Monday morning in Farmington as authorities requested some of the city's schools to go into lockdown after a gunfire report.
"The initial call was that there was a man outside with a rifle shooting off rounds," said Sgt. Bob Sauter of the Farmington Police Department.
Authorities treated the report with an active shooter response.
The caller was ambiguous on the exact location, guessing the 400 block of Oak Street, and the department, having had some previous responses in that area, weren't taking any chances, Sauter said.
Police informed four Farmington schools about the initial report. All four schools went into modified lockdown for about 20 minutes. Officers on the scene were telling residents to go inside, as they set up a perimeter around the two possible locations.
Once police located the man in question, they learned the truth and did not arrest him.
The man, described by police as "an older man in his sixties," alarmed neighbors when, fed up with the squirrels on his property, he took out his pellet gun and started shooting.
After that, he packed up his fishing gear and left.
"He felt pretty bad about it," Sauter said. "There was no intent."
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just lay a few strips down in a road bubble down.. or short strips on the tire.. that’ll get the neighbors hopping..
And ... the pansification and faggotization of America continues.
Needs to get a good slingshot although I expect they’ll be outlawed soon as well.
Somebody calls and reports an active shooter in the area, do you wait until he starts lighting up the kids before taking precautions?
Because some pansified faggot can't tell the difference between an old man shooting squirrels on HIS OWN DAMN PROPERTY and Jihad Joe. And the pansified faggots in officialdom react to everything as if it were WWIII.
Good God, we've gone down the drain.
Squirrel!
Someone must have mighty goo ears if a pellet gun sounds like gunfire to them.
Try a Umarex Steel Storm. Six round bursts:
Gets rid of my pests...
No intent...If he didn’t intend to shoot a rodent why bother trying
Pew... pew... pew... “Shots fired!” ???? WTF?
A pellet “round”?
I have plenty of squirrels in my back yard. But four feet beyond that, I have neighbors with two toddlers.
An errant shot that could kill a squirrel, could do the same to those kids.
If this was in my neighborhood, I would be beating this old man's ass for being a senile douchebag.
Yep, sounds like the Land of 10,000 Flakes.
Otsego, Michigan (pop. 3,600) went into panic over a man giving teddy bears to children who had parents present. People are going nuts.
Don't count on it...Some of us old coots are tougher than you think...Not enough details in the story to know what the circumstances were...Except that it was at least couple blocks away...
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