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West Virginia teen reportedly killed in a game of 'dodging arrows'
FOX news ^ | March 22, 2016 | AP

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: dodgingarrows; riskybehavior; teens; wv
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To: bgill

A cousin was overheard telling a reporter, the teen was a good kid, liked school, was really on the straight and n’arrow path.


21 posted on 03/22/2016 1:09:17 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"I've been a policeman for almost 25 years. [...] It's just a bad decision, if you ask me."

And you guys in Appalachia wonder where the Barney Fife stereotype comes from.


22 posted on 03/22/2016 1:09:29 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Come on. I’ll bet must of us could have been ended up dead numerous times because of dumb things we did as kids.


23 posted on 03/22/2016 1:10:46 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

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.


24 posted on 03/22/2016 1:11:15 PM PDT by visualops (It's the majority of the American people and Trump against the enemies of the republic - Windflier)
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To: bgill

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! ;-)


25 posted on 03/22/2016 1:13:19 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
HA! Its funny!

I question your sense of humor in the face of a tragedy.

26 posted on 03/22/2016 1:15:41 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Democrat Drinking Game - Every time they mention a new social program, chug someone else's beer.)
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To: bgill

Redneck Bullet proof vest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2z1LKfit6w


27 posted on 03/22/2016 1:16:00 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Barney Fife only carried one bullet. So “dodge the bullet” games were a lot shorter in Mayberry.


28 posted on 03/22/2016 1:17:02 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

They did something so stupid, the kid got exactly what he asked for. Not my fault they were raised stupid.


29 posted on 03/22/2016 1:17:16 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: MNDude

My brothers and I certainly did.


30 posted on 03/22/2016 1:19:47 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: bgill
Were they imitating this movie?:


31 posted on 03/22/2016 1:19:53 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Don Knotts was from West Virginia.
Obviously he had seen this before.


32 posted on 03/22/2016 1:20:16 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bgill

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.


33 posted on 03/22/2016 1:24:27 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: bgill

Queue the “his father is also his uncle” jokes...


34 posted on 03/22/2016 1:25:57 PM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: TexasCajun

The victim had a great future ahead of him as a spear catcher.


35 posted on 03/22/2016 1:26:25 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: bgill

Looks like adults play the game too:

http://ssqq.com/archive/images/arrowhead01.jpg


36 posted on 03/22/2016 1:29:07 PM PDT by wrench
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To: johniegrad

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


37 posted on 03/22/2016 1:29:47 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: MNDude

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 !!!!


38 posted on 03/22/2016 1:31:29 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: bgill

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.


39 posted on 03/22/2016 1:35:11 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: Zeneta

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


40 posted on 03/22/2016 1:37:16 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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