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Teacher Charged With Firing Blanks Pistol at Students
ABC News ^ | April 23, 2012 | Russell Goldman

Posted on 04/23/2012 1:49:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A teacher at a Virginia vocational school has been charged with terrifying a dozen students by lining them up against a classroom wall and firing a starter pistol at them execution-style.

Manuael Earnest Dillow, 60, was charged last week with 12 felony counts of brandishing a firearm on school property following the April 4 incident at the William H. Neff Center, a career and technical school, in Abingdon, Va.

Dillow allegedly lined up the students near a garage door of the school’s welding shop and pulled from the waistband of his pants a black “blank-firing handgun,” that according to police looked like a real gun.

He then shot the gun between four and ten times in the direction of the students. The sound of the gunshots were “similar to that of a firearm that fires a projectile, thus placing the students in fear,” Washington County, Va., Sheriff Fred Newman said in a statement.

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To: freedumb2003

They left a prop bullet in the gun that the blank forced out the barrel and into Brandon. Such a horrific death. Still miss seeing him on the screen. Would have been a great member of The Expendables team.

I forgot the name until I looked it up, but remember it happening. Actor Jon Hexum put a pistol to his temple that still had a blank loaded in it, and pulled the trigger. Injuries from that led to his death soon after.


21 posted on 04/23/2012 2:38:30 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

A revolver such as a Taurus Eight revolver 22 can fire 8.
I was commenting on 10 shots, jokingly, poorly.


22 posted on 04/23/2012 2:43:44 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Recall/ Impeachment Day, November 6, 2012. FUBO, same for RINOs)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He then shot the gun between four and ten times...

Rather wide range of estimates, methinks.

Sure it wasn't between eleven and three? Eight and two? Five and nine?

Must be something about four and ten the author wanted to get in there.

Wonder what it could be.

23 posted on 04/23/2012 2:45:27 PM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: freedumb2003

“A blank pistol killed Brandon Lee”.
It was a real handgun that was loaded with blanks that killed Lee. Starter “pistols”, like those used to start track races are usually specially made to not have an opening in the barrel to prevent any projectile from being accidentally launched by the blank charge, and they are usually “revolvers” and not pistols.

http://www.enasco.com/c/physicaleducation/Track+%26+Field/Starter+Pistols/


24 posted on 04/23/2012 2:48:51 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hold my beer..


25 posted on 04/23/2012 2:49:40 PM PDT by Track9 ("Strength through peace.. oh wait, I mean.." Mit Romney)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I didn’t realize Brandon’s death involved so much stupidity.


26 posted on 04/23/2012 2:51:15 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’s lucky none of the students were carrying.


27 posted on 04/23/2012 3:33:12 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Back in HS, I happened to be at the finish line at a meet. The volunteer timers discussed what they were going to use to start their watches. They all agreed to use the puff of smoke from the starter pistol, since most of the sprinters had started before the "bang" hit the people at the finish line.

I was watching some UK movie about a soap box derby. The constable was quite upset with the sponsor having, and using, a starter pistol for the race.

28 posted on 04/23/2012 3:33:23 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

why do starter pistols have sights?


29 posted on 04/23/2012 3:43:11 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Free ThinkerNY

idiot.

Blanks kill too.


30 posted on 04/23/2012 3:48:38 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

>>It was a real handgun that was loaded with blanks that killed Lee. Starter “pistols”, like those used to start track races are usually specially made to not have an opening in the barrel to prevent any projectile from being accidentally launched by the blank charge, and they are usually “revolvers” and not pistols.<<

I stand corrected.

But any device that uses gunpowder is potentially dangerous, since it uses shock force to produce its sound (would you put your ear to the side of a real starters’ pistol?).

Just sayin...


31 posted on 04/23/2012 3:56:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: GOYAKLA

My 9mm HK P30 can fire 15 from the magazine + one in the pipe. 16-shots before reload ... and I carry an extra magazine.

10 ain’t that many.

SnakeDoc


32 posted on 04/23/2012 4:04:05 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He must have been teaching the history of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and decided to add a blank-firing pistol to the lesson in order for it really have the material stick in their minds for the rest of their lives.


33 posted on 04/23/2012 4:05:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Im more surprised not one of you has said if it was your child,you would give the teacher “special”firing range lessons.What happened to you guys,get newtered?


34 posted on 04/23/2012 4:36:36 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: freedumb2003; bitterohiogunclinger

My older brother had one of those starter’s pistols when I was about 12. In fact, my buddy and I went to the sporting goods store and bought it for him with money he gave us! Lazy sucker. They sold it and the ‘ammo’ to us, no problem. Things were a touch looser back in the 50s.

Anyway, he let us play with it whenever we wanted as long as we bought him more ‘acorns.’

We noticed an angled port in the top of the gun where the flash came out, so we went in the attic and took some small screws with us. I stuck one in the port, pointed it down so the port was aimed at a bulb about 25 feet away. I fired. No lie, on the first shot the screw hit the bulb and blew it away. Biggest surprise on my young life.

I don’t know if it would cause much damage to a person (other than their eye), but that light bulb were daid!


35 posted on 04/23/2012 4:58:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Craftmore

He gave the students a really good scare and did not injure them. Okay, some of them might have had their poor, wittle egos bruised and had ringing of the ears but that’s about it.

I’d like to hear from the teacher why he did it. If I was in his shoes I would have taught them that mass shootings, in war or in a Luby’s cafeteria, can occur anywhere at any time and this is the reason why we have the 2nd Amendment and why people should always carry concealed. And when they reach the age to purchase and carry a firearm they should do so but only after going through a course that teaches the rules of firearms safety, the law on self defense with a firearm, human factors related to various combat situations, etc. They should teach those things in all schools.

How many of them will forget about this incident?


36 posted on 04/23/2012 5:22:34 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Just makes a big bang ... like a movie prop gun. Put it near enough to someones head, and you can burst an eardrum, or cause hearing loss.

Or kill yourself. Some moron actor shot himself suicide style with a pistol loaded with blanks. Turned out he wasn't acting. Oops.

37 posted on 04/23/2012 5:40:56 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: RitchieAprile
why do starter pistols have sights?

Why do they swab the site where they're going to give you a lethal injection?

38 posted on 04/23/2012 5:44:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine; All
He gave the students a really good scare and did not injure them. Okay, some of them might have had their poor, wittle egos bruised and had ringing of the ears but that’s about it.

I would love to hear his side of this story. It is possible that he is a complete dumbass, but remember, this is an AP story, so I suspect that the spin on it is near escape velocity.

39 posted on 04/23/2012 5:56:58 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Got to admit. . .as an Adjunct at a college, I wonder too. . . .


40 posted on 04/24/2012 8:57:44 AM PDT by Hulka
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