Errant Bullet Travels 1.5 Miles, Kills Amish Girl

WLWT ^ | 12:01 pm EST December 20, 2011 | WLWT

[TSgt]

Sad...

[chris_bdba]

I just read about tho in our local paper.It s very sad but I am relieved to hear it was an accident and not someone targeting a buggy like thy wondered at first.

[Tallguy]

Terrible.

[cripplecreek]

When I read about this this morning they hadn’t determined the source of the projectile.

[Emmett McCarthy]

This is stupid on the part of the shooter. Firing a weapon without having a clue where that projectile is going is inexcusable to me.

[chris_bdba]

Let’s try that again....I just read about this in our local paper.It is very sad but I am relieved to hear it was an accident and not someone targeting a buggy like they wondered about at first.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Sad, and stupid.

As an aside, I never thought of muzzle loaders as being able to fire that far.

[Past Your Eyes]

The Arabs do it all the time in the Middle East. That’s how they celebrate.

[mamelukesabre]

sorry, not buying it.

There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm.

[Busywhiskers]

Basic rule of firearms safety. Know where the damn round is going.

[Dick Bachert]

This MORON ought to be barred from ever owning another firearm. He VIOLATED one of the cardinal rules by firing into the air with NO idea where the projectile would land. Geezz...Tragic!

[Tex-Con-Man]

Idiot should be charged with manslaughter.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Make sure of your backstop. Some guy in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn was shooting at sharks, using the Belt Parkway as a backstop and the inevitable happened.

I remember seeing a story on City Confidential (iirc) where a young man was killed by a shot “out of nowhere”. Turned out some idiot was playing Rambo at a nearby shooting range and fire wildly over the backstop and killed the poor guy.

BTW, I am not sure that it was an accident, he might have been tempted to see if he could hit a moving target a mile and a half away. Who in the Hell “cleans” a gun by firing it?

[BlueLancer]

"As an aside, I never thought of muzzle loaders as being able to fire that far."

She'd have probably been safer if he had been aiming at her ...

[Farmer Dean]

Some of those discarding sabot loads will go a long,long way.

[George from New England]

They didn’t charge him because they expect him to take the fall.

And TWA Flight 800 was an explosion (of convenience)

[VA_Gentleman]

Why would you try to clean it while it’s loaded? I think the author of this article knows little about how to clean a gun. Something is amiss here. This sad story makes little sense. Think of all of the mathetmatical possibilities that would have to coincide for this tragedy to occur.

[Thane_Banquo]

Basic rule of firearm safety: Be sure of your target and your back-stop.

[Retired COB]

I own a couple of black powder rifles, and there is NO way that they have the capability of shooting a mile and a half (unless you're in an airplane and shooting straight down). I also have a couple of high powered magnum hunting rifles (a .264 Winchester and a .300 Weatherby) which are really dropping a lot (about 3 feet) out at 600 yards. A mile and a half equals about 2640 yards, so unless you're aiming up at a 45 degree angle and shooting from the edge of a tall cliff there's no way you can come close to shooting a projectile that far. Even if you granted that this was not an impossibility, the projectile would not have enough kinetic energy left to penetrate the skin at that distance.

If I was the local constabulary I'd be seriously looking into it.

As an aside, I've seen a lot of Amish people over the years, but have not ever seen a buggy being driven by one of their females....just sayin'.

[null and void]

There’s no way to know the shot came from THAT firearm.

Want to think that one through again?