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I’m sure we’ve all seen it. The crap that some kids do…
I’m talking about when they think it’s funny to fake a “drive by” with paint balls or air soft guns on unsuspecting people. Like this
Or this
Well, odds were in favor that it had to happen sometime…
Injured man returns gun fire on paintball pranksters
A Ruth man is hospitalized in Salt Lake City with eye injuries after being shot with a paintball Thursday night.
Sheriff Dan Watts said the man heard noise in his backyard and went outside with a flash light and a gun. Several Ely teenagers who had been trespassing on the man's property got into a vehicle and one of them shot him in the eye with a paintball gun as the car drove away. Watts said the man thought he had been shot with a real gun and returned fire striking the car but not injuring any of the occupants.
The sheriff's department detained the youths and the one who fired the paintball gun is being held at the juvenile detention facility in Elko. Charges might be pending.
The man who was shot with the paintball has a detached retina and it was not known Monday afternoon if he would lose sight in one eye, according to Watts.
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How do you find these things?
Hopefully the homeowner ends up in good health and out of jail. Stupid kids.
Re: going to jail for bum raps, check out my thing for Olofson updates.
My daily browse of stuff is over on my side bar. I usually find most of it in the News of the Weird blogspot, although as of late I've been surfing more and more through Fark.com and HotAir (maybe I should add them).
As far as charges, I'm not versed in the laws of the state of Utah, but I think they have Castle Doctrine. If so, he shouldn't be charged.
I'll check out your Olofson updates. I've been following that, but never blogged about it because there was so much info all over the net and pretty much everything I'd want to say has been said. :p
Heh, you should toss in some Onion "news" occasionally for funsies.
Maybe I will. I love that site.
The only reason I haven't done it so far is that whenever I've linked funny stuff elsewhere, there's always a group of people that think it's real and they freak out.
:p
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