When Chipmunks Shoot Back
Chetek, WI
7:16 p.m.-Bloomer Medical Center caller advised of a patient who has some BBs embedded in his face. Officer advised. The boy was shooting a chipmunk and the BBs ricocheted off a building and hit him in the face.
Found in the Chetek Alert
July 28th, 2006 at 3:26 am
Sniff, sniff. Something doesn’t smell right here. Anybody who has ever owned a BB gun is not going to buy this story. BBs don’t fly or bounce in a straight line, and would not have enough energy left after ricocheting to embed themselved in his face. If by some odd chance this did happen once, it probably would not happen again. My guess is that some older child, possibly a brother, held the child down and repeatedly shot him in the face with the BB gun. He probably came up with the ricochet story to avoid further whoopings and abuse at the hands of the same person later (under threat, of course), Unfortunately this shows him to be a pliable toy for the older child’s amusement and will result in more torment, not less. Ain’t the world a wonderful place?
July 28th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Unless he was using a pellett rifle.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:45 am
I’m with Mike on this one. I saw the Omen. Someone is having a devil of a time with antisocial behavior. Another case of …dum dum dee dum.. “The Missing Parents.” Perhaps America’s most Wanted should add a segment of missing parents. Then we can put them on milk cartons and mail out those postcard thingies asking if anyone has seen them.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:49 am
WHERE ARE THESE PARENTS AT..IF YOUR CHILD HAS A BB GUN OR ANY OTHER GUN, YOU SHOULD BE THERE WHEN IT IS BEING USED..IF YOUR NOT HOME..LOCK IT UP AND TAKE THE KEY WITH YOU..SOMEONE COULD BE BADLY HURT IF NOT CAREFUL..!!
July 28th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
When we were younger, my brother was allowed to shoot his BB gun at boxes in our basement. I really didn’t think this was a great idea, but my dad thought it would be ok, since he set-up a fort and wouldn’t be hit by any ricochet. One day my sister went down to the basement while he was shooting. He missed his target, the BB hit the wall, and ricocheted right into my sister’s leg. She was ok, but I just wanted to share that this could have happened. The “boy could have also been 16 or 17 years old..and old enough to be able to shoot a BB gun without parental supervision. :o)
July 28th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Good points, everybody, but I’m thinking along the same lines as mike and ironman… the real shooter probably already has some chipmunk skulls decaying in a trunk somewhere…
July 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Yes somthing is up , 22cal buckshot , we use them all the time for gophers. I guess the child safety course was thru home schooling. It would also explain for the multiple BBS…its just a shot in the dark…
July 28th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
I used to shoot mice with a BB gun. After school television was really boring let me tell ya. We also had BB gun wars where we would dress in winter clothes and shoot each other, the only rules were to shoot below the waist line and away from important human anatomy targets . Even at a couple pump-ups a BB rifle will leave a impressive welt on legs.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:23 am
everything you guys has made a great deal of sense..but did anyone think that perhaps that Chipmunk had a little semi automatic B B gun, and dressed in camouflage, with the Little black marks under his eyes and in commando style went to take the Kid out for messing with him? (I swear I didn’t take advantage of that $1.00 sale in Berea Ohio…I only went back to visit family I swear
June 16th, 2008 at 10:15 am
i know this kid. he told me the story what happened was he was shootin at a wall and the bb richoched and got him in the tear gland of his eye. his name is Garret S.