Pasadena, CA or Pasadena, TX?
Hold ma reefer.......
Too late for this idiot to take a gun safety course.
Who in their right mind takes a scattergun to a wasp nest in a neighborhood?
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?
Be sure of your target and beyond!
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.
There was a wasp in my bedroom when I got home last night. I finished it off with a broom.
Tragic story..My condolences to the family..The shooter's actions leave me speechless.
I'm not sure you you're supposed to call but the link has been updated. They have a retraction on the page now.
Boy alive, shooter still an idiot.
It sure doesn't make sense. Didn't you read the story before you posted? The kid is fine, thank God.
I use a BFG 9000 to take out wasp nest myself. </sarcasm>
Somehow I think we're missing something here.
June 1, 2005, 10:08AM
Shooting at wasp nest, neighbor hits boy in bed
By RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
A 5-year-old Pasadena boy was injured while sleeping in his bedroom today when a bullet fired by a neighbor to break up a wasp's nest strayed and struck the boy.
Pasadena police spokesman Sgt. J.M. Baird said Romeo Gonzalez, 18, was in his second-floor apartment at 3637 Shaver shortly after midnight when he decided to shoot at a wasp's nest hanging from a nearby tree.
Romeo loaded a 12-gauge shotgun and fired at the wasp's nest. The shotgun pellet Gonzalez fired entered a first-floor bedroom where David Marban was sleeping, striking him in the thigh, Baird said.
The boy's in the hospital but is reportedly doing well
Gonzalez is charged with deadly conduct and is being held in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond, Baird said.
Due to erroneous police reports, an earlier online version of this story mistakenly reported the boy had been killed.
Now they changed the story....
What I have learned from the news:
stray rounds are incredibly attracted to children, the attraction is inversely proportional to age.
Bullets are also attracted to the guys with the most kids or the most recently married.
Furthemore, a bad guy can be shot 15 times and drive off to hold up another store and rape a woman, but a newlywed cop with a pregnant wife will be killed nearly instantly by a grazing shot to the pinkie.
BOY: It's only a flesh wound!
AP REPORTER: It is not! That shotgun pellet has taken off both your arms you dumb little ba$tard!:
(SCENE THREE)
MAN PULLING CART: "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
AP REPORTER WITH YOUNG BOY OVER SHOULDER: "This ones dead!"
BOY: "I am not!"
AP REPORTER: "Are too!"
ANNOUNCER: "We wanted to sack the AP reporter in scenes one and three but that's not allowed so he has been reported to news anchor at CBS".
SO9
Romeo Gonzales (loads shotgun and speaks):
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks
'Tis the east and..
There are those damned wasps again!
Blam!!!
...probably a deer slug or a sabot.
.."Romeo Gonzalez, 18, "
But hark!! What light from yonder window breaks? It's a wasp nest and I'll blow it apart with my trusty shotgun.
Morons shouldn't own guns. It makes it bad for those of us who can think and want to keep them.
He should have used a sledge hammer ...