Posted on 03/22/2016 12:54:31 PM PDT by bgill
A 15-year-old boy was killed when he was struck in the head while playing a game of "dodging arrows" at a friend's house, and criminal charges could be possible, authorities said Monday.
Caleb Fairchild, an eighth-grader, was playing the bow-and-arrow game Saturday evening when he was hit by an arrow in in Chapmanville, about 45 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous said.
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A cousin was overheard telling a reporter, the teen was a good kid, liked school, was really on the straight and n’arrow path.
Come on. I’ll bet must of us could have been ended up dead numerous times because of dumb things we did as kids.
When I was a kid, and we were playing with Pick Up sticks, my sister got stabbed through the ear lobe. I could not begin to reconstruct that chain of events. Kids do crazy stuff. Although we had the sense to shoot arrows at empty orange juice cans, and not each other.
My younger brother and I used to play dodge-the-dart! LOL
We would time it just right so that the dart would stick up in the door which would be closed upon release of the dart. One time he was slow in closing the door. I ran to the door to see him standing there with a dart sticking out of his shoulder. He did not yelp or scream or cry because he knew that if he had done that then both of us would have gotten our butts kicked! ;-)
I question your sense of humor in the face of a tragedy.
Redneck Bullet proof vest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2z1LKfit6w
Barney Fife only carried one bullet. So “dodge the bullet” games were a lot shorter in Mayberry.
They did something so stupid, the kid got exactly what he asked for. Not my fault they were raised stupid.
My brothers and I certainly did.
Don Knotts was from West Virginia.
Obviously he had seen this before.
I one time wired the game “Operation” to 110 v by clipping the battery leads and attaching a plug end. I put a tablecloth on the table and ran the lead underneath. I baited my brother to see if he could get the ribcage out.
Loud Spark
Lights went Dim
I ran as fast as i could.
Queue the “his father is also his uncle” jokes...
The victim had a great future ahead of him as a spear catcher.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
No doubt.
Throwing rocks at live bullets until they fired off?
Climbing high tension power line towers?
Not deadly, but fun.
Running Roman candle battles with trash can lids as shields.
Catching Darts, ouch!!
Indoor running battles throwing darts at each other for fun?
Ouch !!!!
We used to spend lunch breaks on the construction site stalking each other and throwing nails at each other using “sinkers”. They really can take your eye out, stick in your skin and really hurt, but it was a blast. You just made sure you were wearing shades and not get caught unaware.
being dumb is unfortunately a part of being a teen. Just some do dumber things than others.
Hitchhiking
picking up hitch hikers
Swimming in flooded river
Driving 120 miles per hour down country roads
Filling Iron-cased stove with gasoline and then lighting a match in the vent
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