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Posted on 03/01/2007 7:01:55 AM PST by redfish53
On Saturday 2-24-07 there were (4) 9 and 10 year old boys playing out behind a house in Angleton Tx. in a sparsely wooded area. Three boys had BB guns and one was ...another area of the property. Two of the boys had Daisy pump up BB guns model 880. One had a Daisy "Red Rider". They were shooting at trees. There was a pile of trees from some recent clearing that was piled up in the area. Two of the boys were playing behind the pile of brush when the boy on the horse rode by out from behind the brush pile into the path of the tree one of the boys was shooting at. He was accidentally shot by one of the boys he was shooting the Daisy 880 model pump up BB gun . The BB hit the boy riding the horse in the head appx 1/4" behind his temple. It penetrated the boys skull and stopped in the middle of his brain, it took a bone fragment 1/2 way into his left lobe. We estimated he was appx forty feet from the boy when he shot him.
The boy started hollering and the parents who were a couple hundred feet away ran out to help him. He was bleeding, he was led back to the house on his horse. He remained conscience. He was immediately taken to Angleton Danbury hospital. The x-ray showed the location of the BB. He was life flighted to Herman Children's hospital. He is in stable condition. The surgeon said that they will try and leave the BB and bone fragment in his brain and hopefully it will not cause more problems. He was released from ICU on 2-27 he will remain on antibiotics and under observation for several more days...
(Excerpt) Read more at dow.com ...
Terrible. It does seem that these boys were not taught how to use these safely, nor was anyone around to keep them within the rules.
Before I share anything, I'd like some documentation for this article. Your link goes to an advertising page. I don't think "The Dow Chemical Company" is a valid source.
We used to have BB gun wars when I was a kid but not with pump guns. Of course, we used to throw rocks at each other too. I swear I never got hit in the head, really.
What does "LER" mean?
Where is this story in the Dow Chemical Corporation website you linked?
Where is the rest of this story?
How did I ever survive the almost daily BB gun wars I used to get into at this age...
I agree with you, however, I find it very hard to believe that a bb gun could put a bb through a skull and into the brain at 40 feet. I have hit squirrels at 30 feet with 10 pumps in the gun, and had them just run away.....smoething about this story is incorrect
"I find it very hard to believe that a bb gun could put a bb through a skull and into the brain at 40 feet."
I agree. This whole story is fishy.
TC
is an acronym for a learning event...a close call
mr potts is at the 979 area code
I thought the same thing myself. These would almost surely have been pellet rifles. Perhaps somebody is trying to cook up a reason to ban the, gasp, BB gun.
Is there an actual story somewhere? The link just went to a Dow Chemical website with no apparent links to such a story.
You and me both. It certainly ended the "I shot you first" argument, didn't it?
I think the story is bogus.
Bullshit. No spring-action BB gun can do this. May have been pump or CO2 pellet rifles. More crap reporting by the MSM.
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