[Supernatural]

Weird story about a guy shooting pigeons with an air rifle in downtown Pittsburgh that caused a panic. A SWAT team was called out, the downtown was closed down for hours and the Mayor donned a bullet-proof vest.

All over a guy with an air rifle.

[Supernatural]

Ping!

[Supernatural]

Ping!

[dead]

For every pigeon you kill, ten more will rise up to take its place.

[csvset]

brought the weapon to work to chase pigeons away from broken windows on the building's roof

Wouldn't they be better off by fixing the broken windows?

[steveo]

"...he's up on the roof with his boids. He keeps boids. Dirty... disgusting... filthy... lice-ridden boids. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person. Not anymore! No, sir! Boids!... You get my drift?"

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

One wonders if the police officer who told the bar manager about a "guy with a rifle" would have been better off saying there were "conflicting requests for assistance" or something like that. The first explanation, while somewhat truthful, has the potential to really spook the hoplophobic horses...and the officer should know that.

~ Blue Jays ~

[kenth]

Well, isn't it obvious that we now need to ban assault air rifles?

Poor pigeons. Poor endangered pigeons...

[Rakkasan1]

[G.Mason]

Use all the force necessary.

That guy could've shot his eye out.

[oyez]

He is really going to be in trouble when PETA and ELF get after his sorry butt.

[absolootezer0]

Mayor donned a bullet-proof vest

what's a bullet proof vest gonna do against any semblance of a decent sniper. head shot anyone? that and whats a vest gonna do against a high powered rifle?

[KarlInOhio]

Who was the stool pigeon who turned this guy in?

and the Mayor donned a bullet-proof vest.

He should have gone with the lighter and cooler BB-proof vest.

[BulletBobCo]

Pigeons = Rats with wings.

[elkfersupper]

We've turned into a nation of hysterical weenies.

Makes me wanna puke.

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

"...Richard Wills, a maintenance worker in the building, brought the weapon to work to chase pigeons away from broken windows on the building's roof, said PACT President Robert Fazio..."

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Now that police and the media know it's a dang pellet gun, they could similarly tone down their rhetoric. Let's be truthful here, it is essentially a toy used to plink empty soda cans or possibly to get rid of pests. Depending on the distance, it might not even be capable of permanently hurting the pigeons.

~ Blue Jays ~

[Ladysmith]

"We're going to make sure he takes his BB gun home," he said.

Oh man, I have no idea why but I can't stop giggling over this one.

[freepatriot32]

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[HawaiianGecko]

Dwayne Weber, 21, a student at the Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts, was studying in the institute's library on the 15th floor of the Clark Building along Liberty Avenue when he received a text message about the gunman. "I didn't believe it at first," he said. Weber and other students quickly ran into the street.

There's a sniper on the roof so I'm going to run out into the street. Maybe he should have painted a bulls eye on his shirt first.

 

 

[NJ Freeper]

Growing up, we use to carry pellet and bb guns everywhere around the neighborhood. At most, we'd annoy one of the neighborhood moms and they'd either yell at us or tell our moms we were causing trouble.

Move ahead 5-10 years when I was in high school one of the "new" neighbors (a.k.a. city slicker transplant) in the neighborhood saw me and some friends with a bb gun and she called the cops. When the officer responded and realized it was only a bb gun he apologized for the misunderstanding and left.

That was about 10-15 years ago. If that had happened now, a swat team would of showed up and I'd have made the ten o'clock news as well as the papers.

We also use to love fireworks and I think of some of the stuff we did with m-80's and I thank god that I'm not a kid nowadays.

[kimosabe31]

Unbelievable!! The stupid mayor must want to live forever.