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Pellet fired from BB gun hits KABC's Leanne Suter; teens arrested
LA Times ^ | July 30, 2011 | Phil Willon and Andrew Blankstein

Posted on 07/30/2011 10:21:27 PM PDT by Beaten Valve

KABC-TV Channel 7 reporter Leanne Suter was injured after being struck with a pellet from a BB gun Saturday while doing a live weather report in Fontana, but she was not seriously injured, authorities said.

Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the shooting, Fontana police said. Suter was taken to a hospital after being hit in the hand with a BB round, said Lt. Mark Weissmann. She was standing on Summit Avenue near the 15 Freeway when she was shot about 6 p.m., Weissmann said.

Two boys, ages 16 and 17, was taken into custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, he said. Their names were not released.

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To: irishtenor

Does anybody wonder why medical costs are so high?


21 posted on 07/31/2011 12:05:50 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: antceecee

Yes he would, after asking the UN to certify that the WMDS....pellets...were in the hands of those supporting terror...ism.....it was an off hand joke....


22 posted on 07/31/2011 12:17:36 AM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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To: Beaten Valve

That could put your eye out!


23 posted on 07/31/2011 1:31:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution!)
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To: runninglips

When I was a kid we woul put on glasses and play war with our red riders.The good ole days.


24 posted on 07/31/2011 2:32:27 AM PDT by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: Beaten Valve
Must be one helluva BB gun to cause someone to go to the hospital after being hit in the hand?
25 posted on 07/31/2011 3:24:57 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Beaten Valve

Two boys, ages 16 and 17,with the mind of a 5 year old.


26 posted on 07/31/2011 3:26:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: TLEIBY308
When I was a kid we woul put on glasses and play war with our red riders.The good ole days.

Glasses? We didn't need no stinkin' glasses! Our rule was shoot below the waist. If you got hit above the waist we always went, ooops! And, kept on fightin'....

27 posted on 07/31/2011 3:28:19 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: irishtenor
If she had a penetrating wound to the hand, it needed to be washed out and antibiotics given.

now as for the folks here thinking pellet guns are harmless. No so fast my friends.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC500806/ .

http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-reidsville-boy-dies-bb-gun-110713,0,4817592.story .

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5D8EDA1BBA6D6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM .

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF44D1E97A1352&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

28 posted on 07/31/2011 3:46:15 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: GeronL

Is she any less hit if they “didn’t mean to”??


29 posted on 07/31/2011 4:06:49 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (Stupid should hurt.)
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To: Dick Vomer
You are correct. A descent pellet gun can go through a 1/2 inch pine board.
30 posted on 07/31/2011 5:02:47 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Beaten Valve

There is no way a BB to the hand would cause hospitalization.

Certainly less dangerous than, say, a paintball.


31 posted on 07/31/2011 5:12:13 AM PDT by Mike3689
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To: paul51

LOL!


32 posted on 07/31/2011 5:12:51 AM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: TLEIBY308

Yeah, we did the same thing, though we usually carried both rifles and CO2 powered handguns. Too bad we had to get our parents to fill up the cartridges for us. :)


33 posted on 07/31/2011 5:16:32 AM PDT by Mike3689
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To: bossmechanic

This wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the Big Pellet Industry and lobby.


34 posted on 07/31/2011 5:18:00 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: bossmechanic

Since when do BB guns shoot pellet?

-mine do.


35 posted on 07/31/2011 5:20:26 AM PDT by 4buttons
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To: Mike3689

Oh, I do have to admit, our airsoft wars at my first college were a -lot- more fun. It was a 24/7 thing, we’d carry around the guns in our backpacks ;). (small Christian town, pop 1200, nobody seemed to care)

Finals week we’d switch out airsoft for water guns and have a hunt to the last man(you’d be given a name as your target, and if you hit them first, you took whoever their target was, this was a student-organization sponsored event :D)


36 posted on 07/31/2011 5:23:11 AM PDT by Mike3689
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To: rawhide

Guilty!


37 posted on 07/31/2011 5:25:01 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Beaten Valve

QUICK: Save the Media—BAN BB GUNS!!


38 posted on 07/31/2011 5:36:20 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: GeronL
I’m not so sure on the “deadly weapon” part either.

I know of two cases where kids were hit by BBs/pellets that penetrated their chests near the heart. Internal bleeding around the heart increased pressure on the heart and they died. One case happened to a boy in a family we know.

Search "killed by bb pellet gun."

39 posted on 07/31/2011 5:37:23 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I’m not sure what she was hit with but there a bunch of folks down here who hunt with air rifles, their taking rabbit’s, predators and a few have taken small hog’s. With pellets traveling at 1200fps there no doubt in my mind you could kill a person with one. I’ve taken a wide variety of critters myself with my Gamo Whisper, any where from rat’s to as big as boar raccoons.


40 posted on 07/31/2011 5:59:00 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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