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Shooting at wasp nest, neighbor kills sleeping boy
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| June 1, 2005
Posted on 06/01/2005 7:54:16 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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None of this makes sense.
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:54:16 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Pasadena, CA or Pasadena, TX?
To: VRWCmember
Harris County should be Houston, TX.
Deadly conduct is a felony in Texas.
To: VRWCmember
Harris County is Texas, I believe.
To: Dog Gone
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:58:15 AM PDT
by
umgud
(FR, NASCAR, NRA, GOP)
To: Dog Gone
Too late for this idiot to take a gun safety course.
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:58:26 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: PBRSTREETGANG
I put it in the Texas topic when I posted it. Essentially, this is southeast Houston.
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:59:29 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Who in their right mind takes a scattergun to a wasp nest in a neighborhood?
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posted on
06/01/2005 7:59:50 AM PDT
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Dog Gone
It doesn't make any sense.
Shooting at a wasp nest with a shotgun doesn't make sense.
That one pellet might enter a bedroom still carrying enough velocity to kill someone doesn't make sense, unless the nest was really very close to the window and he was using buckshot.
Who fires a shotgun at or towards an apartment building? Was he trying to shoot it out of the rafters from the ground?
To: Dog Gone
Be sure of your target and beyond!
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:03:02 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(No rolling stone ever says, "I want to be a Bryologist when I grow up!")
To: Dog Gone
He gets inspired shortly after midnight when it is harder to see?
If he thought the wasps were annoying; wait til he enounters "Bubba" in jail.
To: azhenfud
That's a good question, of course. Another question is why the story refers to both a bullet and a pellet. Was it a slug, or was it the more common shot shell?
And if it was a shot shell, how was it able to penetrate an adjacent building and actually kill someone?
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:03:34 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
There was a wasp in my bedroom when I got home last night. I finished it off with a broom.
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:04:55 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Something wicked this way comes)
To: HairOfTheDog
I think it doesn't make sense because you are under estimating how stupid people can be ;)
As for the last bit, I think the "shooter" was in his apt, 2nd floor. He could have been aiming down. I dunno though.
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:06:10 AM PDT
by
tfecw
(Vote Democrat, It's easier than working)
To: HairOfTheDog
It sounds like he was shooting down at the nest from the second floor. The boy was on the first floor. And none of this makes sense. Almost had to have gone through a window. This is not the type of accident a normal person could have, the shooter has to be a little slow or not right in the head.
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:07:44 AM PDT
by
faq
To: Dog Gone
Tragic story..My condolences to the family..The shooter's actions leave me speechless.
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:08:15 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: HairOfTheDog
actually now that i've clicked on the link the site it takes you to says the boy is alive. The pellet hit him in the thigh.
"The boy's in the hospital but reportedly doing well"
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:08:33 AM PDT
by
tfecw
(Vote Democrat, It's easier than working)
To: HairOfTheDog
"Who fires a shotgun at or towards an apartment building? Was he trying to shoot it out of the rafters from the ground?"
In the movies and cartoons it's not a problem
To: faq; tfecw
You're right.... half of the details I needed were right in the article.
Of course, the other detail... 'what kind of a person does something this stupid?' - that question is still pending ;~\
To: HairOfTheDog
That one pellet might enter a bedroom still carrying enough velocity to kill someone doesn't make sense, unless the nest was really very close to the window and he was using buckshot. The article said "the pellet". Rifled slug?
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posted on
06/01/2005 8:10:06 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(Grant no power to government you would not want your worst enemies to wield against you.)
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