Man shooting at squirrels puts Farmington schools on lockdown

Echo Press ^ | Deanna Weniger

[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."

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Farmington is about 10 minutes from where I’m sitting. Nice little town. I go there once a year for the county fair.

Otherwise, nothing ever happens in Farmington.

[Daffynition]

Yes, the terlit on common sense has long, been flushed.

Here we has a 82 y/o elderly gentleman, shoot a black bear on his property in a residential area.

http://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/please-don-t-shoot-the-bears

I believe he had contacted the DEEP several times w/a complaint of he nuisance bears; [they didn’t respond] so, he took matters into his own hands. Eventually he was exonerated.

[NorthMountain]

And when that 'senile douchebag' shoves the rifle so far down your throat it comes out your ass ... or better yet, shoots you stone cold dead in your tracks ...

I'll figure your fate to be well deserved.

Don't assault old men. We're too old for recreational fighting. We'll just kill you.

Have a nice day.

[NorthMountain]

Yes, the terlit on common sense has long, been flushed.

Yes. It's so bad that even supposed conservatives on a supposedly conservative website have taken leave of their senses.

[Daffynition]

LOL...between the net nannies and the troll liberals ...it's CRAY-CRAY. Always happens around election time.

[Paleo Pete]

I’m glad I live out in the boonies, if I shoot my .22 at a squirrel, or for any reason, people just figure I took a pot shot at a copperhead and don’t pay any attention. A neighbor uses a .410 pretty regular, we don’t worry about it. I could target practice with my .243 in a neighbor’s back yard, good place to shoot, nobody would be too concerned...did target practice in her yard with a .38 a few years back, nobody ever said a word, as long as I let her know first...