Posted on 07/15/2002 7:08:58 AM PDT by SLB
WASHINGTON- Several drivers in the nation's capital were hit with sharp projectiles, perhaps darts fired from a blowgun.
Police said the incidents occurred between 9:30 and 11:00 p.m., EDT Sunday in neighorhoods across the city. A handful were concentrated along the District's New York Avenue, part of U.S. Route 50, which serves as the city's main northeast gateway for commuters and tourists.
In three cases, the six-inch long, razor-sharp projectiles had to be surgically removed.
There was no evidence the darts had been tainted with chemicals or toxins, authorities said, and none of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.
Police were looking Monday for as many as three teenagers driving a white Cadillac with tinted windows in connection with the spree.
Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile would not confirm the use of a blowgun. He said the pranksters' weapon of choice might also have been some sort of nail dispenser.
I had a kid hit me once with a paperclip rubber band conflageration of sorts and it stung like a bee sting.
I gave the little grinning turd a Cold Dr Pepper in the face reverse enema....Ice cup and all. His mommy and daddy were unaware of juniors passtime from the open back window seat and had the tiny-ban terrorist not had a few more pieces of ammo in his pocket I'd been arrested for road rage on a rug rat.
The wet and shivering lineolium lizard was kind of bug eyed when the responding LEO temporarly held my 1911A1 and Seecamp during the roadside investigation while telling the kid if I'd been a bad guy he could have been shot ect ect while I looked as mean and inhuman as possible to sink home the coppers scolding......:o)
Stay Safe !
Blowguns? Who cares. I would have LOVED one of these when I was a kid (basing that on the fact that I'd have a great time with one now).
It can shoot 70 feet!? Chasing neighbourhood dogs, neighbours, neighbour's friends, their dogs. The list would be endless.
Andrew
Not good for the PGP paint on yer ride but even worse on the terrs hide.......:o)
Ahhh Freeper Poetry in the AM !
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Then again....9 darts indicates a banana clip and a modified blowgun made to fire in the full automatic mode.
Plans and modification kits are probably available on the internet.
That is very possible. It may be a holster or maybe a blowgun.
Just be grateful that no one has introduced a bill that all willies have to be carried in a secure holster. With a trigger lock.
A six inch steel dart is not a prank ebven if it were not the age of terrorism there are many places on the human body where a six inch penetration of a stell dart can cause immediate death. This is someone using deadly force. Might I suggest a 180 gr silvertip response is very much in order. Of course this is DC and onl FLEAS, DC Cops and Democrat Politicians and columnists are legally allowed to carry.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Be vigilant. Report if you see something out of the ordinary.
The suspect was seen fleeing aboard a SwissAir flight to Thun:
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