And By “Goes Awry” They Mean “Goes Drunk.”
I rest a little easier knowing that Texas is not the only place with Dewayne and Billy Bob.
In Montville, Ohio, two ole boys decided to try target practice with an AK-47 in a residential neighborhood. They almost killed a teenager, her mother, a grandpa and a two children. They did a microwave oven and a sofa.
The story is headlined, “Bullets strike Montville homes, narrowly miss officers as AK-47 target practice goes awry”
I underlined the good parts for you —
Montville Township police found themselves dodging bullets as they tracked down where the shots were originating.
“When I get about a half mile back in the field up on a hill, gunfire started again, and started hearing rounds go over my head,” said Montville Police Sgt. Matt Neil.
Police said the men on Windfall Road were shooting at a target in a field with handguns and an AK-47.
“They were drinking alcohol, they had some drugs on them and they were just outside, in their backyard shooting paper targets,” Neil said. “They felt because they were shooting at a downward angle, that it would have been OK.”
Bullets skipped off the ground, and carried over hills striking at least two homes police estimated to be a 500 yards from where the target shooting took place.
A mother and her daughter left the kitchen just seconds before the wall mounted microwave oven was hit.
And under the category of, “No shoot, Sherlock” comes this from one of the victims:
Kuruc, grateful no one was injured, echoed a warning Montville police are sending, “If people are going to target shoot out there, be very careful with where that bullet goes because it could have killed somebody.”
I guess they showed President Obama who’s boss, huh?
Thanks to Stan for the heads up.
And thanks to Brian for finding us this picture of the police officer who almost got hit trying to get them to quit firing.
Two men, 53-year-old Mark Bornino and 45-year-old R. Daniel Volpone, were arrested and are facing felony charges. Police seized an AK-47 with two high-capacity magazines, three handguns, over 700 rounds of ammunition and some marijuana.
We should send this article to Greg Abbott – this is EXACTLY the type of imbeciles he wants to move to Tejas – as though Tejas does not have enough of their own~seriously.
1See, this is what happens when not everyone in the neighborhood is armed to the gills. The neighbors whose homes were shot up shouldn’t need to call the cops for protection; they should have armed themselves and gone hunting for the bad guys. Instead of arrests, there could have been a shootout between the good guys and the bad guys; the kind all these idiots imagine whenever there’s a mass shooting and they weren’t there with their guns.
2This is exactly why my late brother in law Moose gave up hunting. One too many damn drunks armed with rifles and no sense whatever no way no where. Example: one “hunter” saw some white going through the bracken many yards away, aimed and fired. He was downright perplexed when he went to pick up a dead rabbit and found a dead man out in the woods with white socks and running shoes. It seems the deceased was a constant jogger and used a path through the woods and yes, the jogger should have been safe inasmuch as there wasn’t a hunting season in session at the time. The shooter was an independent cuss who found out that the 2nd Amendment did not cover what he did.
It just wasn’t safe out there anymore so Moose removed all the firing pins from all his weapons and stayed home.
3So will one of the ‘checks’ required for gun ownership include the ‘too stupid to live’ check? Just sayin’. Ah, alcohol and firearms – a winning combination – always.
4So much for the “well-regulated” clause.
5I am so glad I live in NY—and CA…I cringe when I think about what it’s really like to be around guns, (I had a violent childhood) and if I pray, it’s to pray that reason be allowed to come forward in these matters. I just keep remembering the young woman from Estonia, when she found out where I lived, exclaimed, “You can’t be an American, Americans are stupid!”
6The crazy ones have an intensity that we cannot match, and the are overwhelming us…
Saw “Aidia” last night from the Met, at the movies–if you have a chance, the series is only half over–and is worth seeing–drama where it’s supposed to be–on stage
Everyone needs a front loading musket, our founding fathers thought a lot of well organized militias…but drunk yahoos?
Stocks and lots of garbage thrown…fines and loss of guns forever…we need to wake up!!
Here in Tennessee we lose a few good ol’ boys every year when they fall from their tree stands during hunting season, and in almost every case the ‘victim’ was drunk when he fell.
One of my friends used to be an avid hunter, but after spending one entire afternoon hugging the base of a large tree and shouting at fools who were blasting away from all directions at invisible deer he gave up hunting as a sport.
7Ironic they’ll probably have more legal troubles from the marijuana possession than for public endangerment with a firearm.
8@Maggie, that “independent cuss” was a lousy shot, too! He should have found a mad as hell jogger with a shattered foot or ankle if he was shooting at white socks whilst trying to hit a rabbit! Lyin murderous SOB!
9“…an AK-47 with two high-capacity magazines, three handguns, over 700 rounds of ammunition and some marijuana.”
Anybody remember the old Sesame Street song:
One of these things, is not like the others
One of these things just doesn’t belong
Can you tell me which thing, is not gonna kill ya
Before I finish my song.
And then, there’s this classic:
Ohhhh a redneck will drink lots of beers
And beat up folks he thinks are queers
When he’s drunk he likes to shoot his gun
And pretend he really is “Someone”
Cuuuuuuz a redneck is a person in your neighborhood
10In your neighborhood, in your neighborhood
Yes a redneck is a person in your neighborhood
He’s a person that you meet, when he’s shootin’ up the street
They’re the people that you Meet. Each. Daaaaaay.
When idiots are outlawed, only outlaws will… wait, can you outlaw idiots? Better check with the NRA.
1153-year-old Mark Bornino and 45-year-old R. Daniel Volpone? I wonder what they want to be when they grow up?
If they survive that long.
12@ Rick,
13No you don’t outlaw idiots…you elect them to political office.
Well thank God nobody had infringed on their second amendment rights. I’m sure this is what the founding fathers had in mind-making Ak-47’s available to idiots.
14I’m just remembering that I have (had) a friend who decided that he should be a hunter as many of his associates were. So he laid in an impressive supply of weapons and all the gear. Now he never sought any silly instruction about his guns or gun safety other than learning to load them and find the triggers. One crisp autumn morning he and his cronies armed to the teeth and impressively camouflaged set out for the woods. On the very first shot this fellow took, his shotgun kicked awfully and tore up his face requiring stitches and x-rays. A simple background check would have never revealed that he was a total idiot. How do you check for that?
15@Maggie — 20 plus years back, a woman in Maine was shot and killed while hanging laundry in her back yard. The hunter was not convicted.
“In subsequent interviews, members of the jury told the BDN that they believed that a deer ran in front of Rogerson before he fired the fatal shot. Rogerson said he saw a deer, fired a shot at it, then fired again at “flags” that looked like a deer’s tail. News accounts at the time focused on the fact that Karen Wood was wearing white-palmed mittens that may have appeared to have been deer tails.”
My recollection of what I heard at the time was that they felt she should have known better than to wear anything that looked like any part of a deer during hunting season.
http://bangordailynews.com/2008/11/14/news/bangor/twenty-years-ago-two-shots-rang-out-forever-alteringlives-and-laws/
16Can you just imagine how much fun it’s going to be….. now that it’s legal in Texas to carry a concealed weapon into a bar??
Boggles the mind.
17A real sore spot with many Texans is the gun-related violence from the drug cartels along the border with Mexico. Well guess where the cartel get all their weapons? Oh wait… that’s small business capitalism at its finest when you can make a profit selling weaponry to stupid Mexican drug dealers, right? Having lived for several years in Mexico, having driven both south, and north on the Baja Penninsula, having been checked for weapons, cash, and drugs about every coupleof hours in military checkpoints…. I’d say there are a whole lot of good ole boys with protuberant abdomens worrying about the Second Amendment who need a reality check. Like that poor fool who recently drove into Mexico with a weapon, only to be arrested and thrown into jail for several weeks after a checkpoint discovered his concealed weapon,? Mexico doesn’t mess around with gun ownership. The blame for the violence along the border belongs on our plate… that and the US’s insatiable appetite for illegal drugs. Chain chain chain…. chain of fools…..
18Don A, that’s the incident that really finished my tolerance for bad hunters–and I recall the NRA making a statement that “she should not have been outside in hunting season…she should have known better.”
Now the first thing my mother taught me, when she taught me to shoot (which she did) was to look *beyond the target* to what you might hit instead. What if the round went through the target? One of our family stories is the time my grandfather killed two deer with one shot, a buck and a doe. They were across a ravine from him, standing side by side, exactly in line…so he saw only the buck…and got them both. He quietly decided not to hunt again, because he was so appalled that he’d shot something he didn’t intend to shoot.
And next was “how far your round goes–know how far, know the angle that will let it ricochet.” You don’t just haul off and blast something (anything! Target, deer, stack of tin cans in a gully) without knowing what’s behind the target and how far your round (whatever it is) can go. You don’t shoot at “a flash of white that’s gotta be a deer’s tail…” If you can’t see your target clearly–if you can’t for absolutely damn sure identify it–you don’t take the shot.
This was pounded into me as a kid learning to shoot a BB gun, and reiterated at every later stage.
And it’s bozos like this, who’ve been crowding gun shows and gun stores for the last month, desperate to stock up on guns and ammo, who think they’d be qualified to defend schools and homes and stores. Gnah!!!
19Gee, does this mean bullets just keep on going when the shooter misses the target? They don’t just fall to the ground right away?
20When this is all said and done, the only thing these geniuses will not get back is the pot.
21Lord, the stupid is strong in some folks.
22EMoon, I hate guns and would never own one, but I do know that much about using one– plus the other basics, such as assuming they’re all loaded, and not aiming at anything you don’t intend to shoot, and not touching the trigger until you’re about to fire.
How about mandatory breathalyzers mounted on guns?
23@Don A and @EMoon: I thought of this same incident when I started reading this thread. The young mother (!) who was killed was new to the area. BUT, she was in her own backyard; there were signs everywhere that said “No Hunting;” and, she was BLAMED–after her death–for being stupid enough to wear white mittens and a white knit hat with a pom-pon with a navy coat. Like it was HER fault she was mistaken for a deer. Like so many navy blue deer. The idiot who shot and killed her was acquited in just another in a long line of travesties of justice.
I think it would be a fine idea if this was brought up again by the media. Ya know, pound another nail into the coffin of the NRA.
24What?! You mean the gummint confiscated their weapons? They didn’t fight back? The cops didn’t have to pry the idiots cold, dead fingers off of the triggers? What a couple of losers. Can’t count on THEM to defend the Second Amendment…
25Ah, yes, hunting and booze. On his last hunting trip before we split for good my ex brought down an enormous buck; biggest one in the county that year. So lots of pictures. Ex’s eyes were glassier than those of the dead deer who was shot well within range of a freaking shopping mall.
26I made him take the mounted deer head when he left.
Now for the good news … I guess. Deer hunting season in Wisconsin in November 2012 was one of the “safest” ever, with “only” one human gunshot fatality after two previous years with no gun-related hunting deaths. Darwin Award fanciers are obviously distressed. According to the state’s Department of Natural Resources, only three November gun seasons in the last 160 years did not have a fatal shooting in Wisconsin.
A beloved member of our family is our fawn-colored retired pet racing greyhound, Micki. It’s an hour’s drive to Wisconsin from our home in Illinois, and we avoid taking her up there in November for obvious reasons.
27Well, thank goodness for that grass. Shooting up houses, microwaves and couches in the burbs isn’t that big a deal, they were just being good ole boys. It didn’t even matter that the cop had to duck to avoid getting his brains blown out. However, that pot will keep them in prison for a very, very long time.
We might even have reasonable gun control by the time those two goobers get out.
28If you need more than 10 bullets to take down a jack rabbit, squirrel or Bambi, maybe hunting is not your sport. Have you considered fishing, rock climbing, water sliding, horseshoes or dominoes?? I’m just saying. SoWaco Sistah
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