Fun With Guns: The Jeep Is Listed In Stable Condition But The House Was DOA Edition
When 33 year old Nicholas Heyrman heard a rumor that there was an aggressive dog loose in the neighborhood, he went into his house to get his AR15 “to defend his property.”
Heyrman then shot eight rounds at the animal from 32 feet away, missing it each time but hitting a house and a Jeep, according to police.
When neighbors called to report it, the police headed to the house. Meanwhile, Heyrman called the police dispatcher himself. He was told to get on his knees in the driveway and put his hands up in the air before the police arrived.
The officer arrived at Heyrman’s to find him, wearing a Packers jersey, kneeling as ordered in his driveway. Heyrman had returned his rifle to the garage prior to the officer’s arrival, the complaint says.
Yeah, if you put the gun away, it never happened.
He was released on a $2,500 bond and was told to get a lawyer. And a brain. And some shooting lessons. And a damn decent shirt.
Thanks to Rick for heads up.
Just when you wish the cops were on a serious doughnut break, they ride in lights blazing to rescue some pond scum.
The dispatcher tried, but the dog had better things to do than educate Nicky Poo.
1Heyrman? More like Heyrbrain if you ask me.
2Why do all of these guys look like extras out of Deliverance?
3My Jeep was recalled yesterday and had a new trailer hitch put on. The old hitches tended to rupture the fuel tank in a low impact rearend collision. Pinto anyone. Maybe it is time to recall defective humans for new brains or something. BTW my Jeep has never shot at anything that I’m aware of. Did hit one bald eagle with the windshield.
4I’m sorry, if you can’t hit something from 32 feet away, you don’t deserve your gun (though I’m sure the dog was running after the 1st shot).
In Germany, I’m given to understand you have to pass a shooting test to own one. Makes sense to me. I got my first gun at age 8 and I rarely missed the 1-inch circle on the paper target or the tin cans we used for targets (only things at which I ever shot). Dad wouldn’t have stood for it and would have taken my shooting privileges away. Dad, however, is very much against gun registration.
5SusanF, I can appreciate your Dad’s concerns regarding gun registration. Our state has had registration, since before we were born and it hasn’t solved anything.
Would like to know his views on a background check for purchases, maybe required training before purchase and his experienced thoughts on what needs to be done to to safely coexist with those who are not as responsible as he, you, others and me.
Forget the NRA which has become a shill for gun manufacturers and totally summarily forget the sovereign militia idiots, would truly appreciate suggestions from those who have proven their ability to be safe with a gun to help write the legislation that would actually achieve the goal of gun safety for all. Albeit, it might not be perfect, but it would be a huge improvement over the nothing we have now.
6@SusanF
732 feet, 10ish meters with ar15 single shots should be a gimme. He needs to practice right, cause clearly he’s been practicing wrong.
Micr, I think SusanF would agree with this: Sparky Nick should be deprived of all guns, until practicing in the confines of his little hospital room tiny bathroom cubicle with a set of nunchaku, then released to his own backyard for further neutering.
8Everyone’s arming themselves to the teeth here in Wisconsin. This was bound to happen. Kinda glad the dog got away.
9Okay, now you’ve gone too far. This incident took place in Green Bay. According to Momma Bear, Packer’s jerseys ARE proper attire during football season…which, by the way, lasts 12 months in Wisconsin (because there’s nothing else to do)…
10😛
Here… as Paul Harvey would have said, is the rest of the story.
The Green Bay Packers took a beating in the late game on Sunday. I believe the incident above occurred on Monday. Packer fans take their team very seriously, and if you wear a green & gold jersey around the yard, very, very seriously. Win or lose, but especially lose, some serious drinking can occur among equally serious fans. I would suggest that this may have had a bearing on Mr. Heyrman’s ability to miss the dog, but still manage to hit the broad side of a house at 32 feet.
11If you ever lived in Wisconsin, you would understand.
12Thought that green and gold jersey was a giveaway. He’s one of my homies!!
@ Rick, I’ve got to say, you may be right, but it’s not quite the part of the state I’d expect….
13This guy couldn’t hit the side of a barn if he were in the barn.
Hey, I like the Packers myself– only team that’s owned by the fans and doesn’t have some rich blowhard owner who’ll threaten to move the team to another city if the taxpayers don’t build him a new deluxe stadium with sky-high ticket prices. (I still think Camden Yards should have been named Maryland Taxpayer Stadium.)
Someone down the hill in our suburban neighborhood shot off fireworks just before midnight last night. Early report is that they were celebrating the Washington NFL Team’s unexpected win over the Cowboys. Well, that’s all right, then.
14Finally!!! Some lamebrain who can’t count past 2 as in 2nd Amendment gets what is coming to him for his insane behavior with a gun. Hiding the weapon back in the garage before the police arrived would qualify in many parts of the country as obstruction of a police investigation and would land you in deep doo-doo. The cops were right. He is definitely going to need a lawyer. And glasses. He couldn’t hit what he originally targeted?? And some lessons on responsible gun ownership and then maybe – maybe – if he’s a good boy, some shooting lessons.
15Demonstrating once again the premise, impossible for many gun supporters to comprehend, that bullets end up going somewhere.
And not necessarily where you want them to.
16Just call him propellerhead
17OK, so there was an aggressive dog. He fired 8 shots couldn’t hit the dog. So exactly how aggressive was that dog? A frightened dog would be runing around like a nut case trying to get out of the way. An aggressive dog would probably go charging at the guy.
“Police found the stray dog and turned it over to a local veterinarian. An animal control officer planned to evaluate whether the animal had a history of aggressiveness, police said.”
Since they are evaluating a history of aggressiveness it sounds like ol’ yeller was kind of happy to be found.
18Are they going to evaluate the history of aggressiveness in Pistol Pete here and put him down if there is one?
19Amen, e platypus onion, mental defectives should be recalled and kept under surveillance and/or in straightjackets until they demonstrate common sense.
20“If I missed, the bullets were supposed to stop and fall down.”
21e platypus onion, maryelle & Rhea, by all means those who fail their Darwin tests should be put down. The dogs can be rehabilitated.
Rhea, the recent clown in question is no “Pistol Pete.” The real Pistol Pete Maravich of basketball fame was accurate. I won’t bore you with statistics, but he could hit a hoop and would have dribbled around the dog in question. Probably would have interested the dog in a game of one on one.
We won’t discuss what sort of dribbling Nicky Poo would have done, had the dog shot back.
22Can anyone explain to me how can he go into the house to get a rifle and then out of the house to shoot a dog outside to protect his property? Would it be best to just have called the cops about the dog in the first place before making holes in all of the neighborhood? How can the dog be aggressive if the dog let him go into his house without biting his behind off? Wow, too many questions, too many unknowns!
If he cannot shoot a dog from 10 meters away and shoots down the neighborhood, he should NOT have a gun at all. There should be at least a test to see if you can actually use a gun without shooting the entire neighborhood. He looks like a good Tealiban to me…
23Rhea, you’re talking about the Washington Slurskins?
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