This story happened outside our usual jurisdiction of newsworthiness, but the event unfolded just over the state line in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, hill country that’s just as much an exburb of Youngstown as of Pittsburgh. The story also earns your time due to how sorry and screwed up it is.
According to the the local paper in New Sewickley Township, your standard-fare Halloween celebration went disastrously wrong over the weekend, resulting in serious injuries to a 9-year-old girl.
The unnamed girl was at the party dressed as a skunk, a get-up that comprised “a black costume and a black hat with white tassel.” When the kids were running around outside, a male relative, also unidentified, thought he spotted an actual skunk. So he did what anyone would do: he got a gun and starting flinging rounds at the animal.
You know where this is going: Unfortunately, horribly, it was only the girl in costume. The shotgun blast struck in the girl’s arm, shoulder, back and neck. She was life-flighted to Pittsburgh, and recent reports have not yet coughed up her current condition, although she was responsive on the flight.
Police say the shooter was not drunk at the time of the shooting. Nope, not drunk, just an idiot whose initial reaction to seeing a skunk is gun-play. We’re anxious to see how the NRA is going to pretzel-twist this one around into Obama and the media’s fault.
This article appears in Oct 17-23, 2012.
REALLY. . .? What a dipstick.
id use stronger words for the relative that shot while children were dressed up playing.. some lack of the situation is lost on the guy that shot.
peopled killed by guns were shot by people who WANTED to or an *Honest accident … But Stupid people ?? They can Really damage your ass .. i hope the girl is ok soon … Idiot
Its people like him that should be in jail and do life whether the little girl lives or dies stupidy deserves life behind bars for this ridiculous shooting…..
These are the people I believe should fill our jails/prisons Drug dealers/not users Murders unless self defence is proving Molesters/rapist. Drug additics should go to gtreatment paid for by the drug dealers monies…. this system would work…God Bless
the N.R.A. and every responsible woman and man in this country, will not condone such stupidity. we the people including the N.R.A. preach for responsibility and saftey when handling firearms. only some ignorant comie anti- American moron would even think that we the people or the N.R.A. would condone that kind of ignorant action.!!!!
You know the funniest part? This idiot helps to vote our leaders into office.
Stupid is as stupid does.