Blood loss.
Posted on 10/18/2002 10:32:53 PM PDT by GalvestonBeachcomber
Bow-and-arrow hunter kills man trying to steal his car
By ROMA KHANNA
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
A would-be car thief died Friday after he was shot by the car's owner, a camouflage-clad hunter toting a bow and arrow, police said.
The thief was moments from a clean getaway when the hunter happened upon his car, police said. The man told the hunter he had a gun and threatened to kill him, said Sgt. T.E. Kiser of the Harris County Sheriff's Department homicide division.
The hunter drew his bow and shot at the man, hitting him in the hip and buttocks area.
The man jumped from the vehicle and ran across the 9500 block of East Mount Houston Road in northeast Harris County. Passing motorists saw him run into a field and collapse, detectives said.
The man, who has not been identified, was taken by LifeFlight to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives declined to identify the hunter but said he would be questioned Friday evening.
Detectives said they found a stolen vehicle in the wooded area north of East Mt. Houston where the hunter had parked his car to practice.
"It appears the man who tried to steal the car may have been living in that vehicle," Kiser said. "He must have noticed when the hunter left his car and tried to break in. He had already broken the steering column and was about to start the car when the hunter arrived."
No charges had been filed Friday evening. Kiser said the case would likely be referred to a grand jury.
That wouldn't stop them here in Britain. They're trying to make the government license airguns and force people to use them at gun clubs at the moment. It would be easy for them to use the same "save the children" argument to license crossbows and longbows and force people to keep them at sports clubs.
Once you fall into the trap of holding inanimate objects responsible for violent crime instead of people, the logical conclusion is a society where any kind of weapon is banned.
Artery? No, just an asshole. It's been too long since it was open season on them.
Now I can log off with a smile :) and go baby sit with my Grandkids all day without FR!
Blood loss.
Unfortunately, if this had happened here in England, the hunter would probably have been charged with manslaughter for using 'unreasonable force'. The left/liberal media and the statist Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation would also be screaming for the licensing of bows, just in case criminals or irresponsible people buy them, or steal them from law abiding archers! The fools wouldn't realise how easy it is to make a crossbow or a longbow, how popular the sport of archery is and how very rare assaults with bows are anyway.
"As I drew my bow, he turned away from me... trying to protect himself..."
No need to field dress for the final count if you hit an artery and a couple of veins with on of these:
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