So, Cheney's in Delaware now?

/rimshot

alcohol use by the driver of the truck may have been a factor in the incident

This proves conclusively that alcohol abuse can lead directly to lead poisoning. It's a gateway poison!

Taking bets that the shooter winds up in jail and the drunk gets off with 'rehab'.

/welcome to the nanny state

seems fair enough.

the mother of all 'get of my lawn's

Sounds like a legitimate use of gun ownership.

i would have fired at that guy too.

"no cahrges have been filed". Yet

charges.

/waitress, more coffee please

welcome to the nanny state

I'll bet the shooter is not charged. I don't think Delaware is a nanny state, like Cali or the like.

...a man driving out of control on Grears Corner Road at approximately 10:15 a.m.

...alcohol use by the driver of the truck may have been a factor in the incident.


Wow. Lit like at Christmas tree at 10AM?? Well done, sir.

bio4ema beat me to it.

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And I would have gotten away with it too if weren't for you birdshot peddling kids!

"The names of both men have been withheld, because police consider both to be idiots."

What ever happened to shotshells loaded with rock salt for trespassers?

RedSawyer90

Taking bets that the shooter winds up in jail and the drunk gets off with 'rehab'.

Nah, it's Slower Delaware, not Massachusetts.

Maybe he was just lost.

I'd like to congratulate Jonathan Abel for writing one of the worst attempts of professional journalism ever. Keep trying John.

I need to go get some Pepto now...

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Pigpen: I am sure he had some around, it was just a pressing issue that had to be dealt with immediately. You know like a guy triyng to run you over with his truck.
\+5 for properly applying force with a firearm in self defense.
\\+10 if he coulda shot him in the ass.

I suggest he get some shells loaded with steel ball bearings for the next time. Next time he goes water fowl hunting that is because the federal government says you can't use steel bullets but you have to use steel shot for waterfowl. Everybody wins, except for the silly goose that doesn't duck.

and now i'm comin for you, lest I knock thrice then open fire biatch.

knock knock knock

Sounds like a justified shooting.

Right on OscarTamerz. The use of steel shot has wounded and caused more harm to game and the environment than lead ever could. Elemental lead in living tissue is inert for the most part, at worst the body encases it in scar tissue. Just look at all the people with bullets in their bodies and they arn't falling like flies. Steel shot in living tissue rusts and allows infections to start. Even worse, steel is not as dense and has a lower effective range, resulting in more wounded game.

As for the ban on steel bullets, that's BS as well. The government made people think "Steel bullet" = "Armor piercing". Fact is that steel is used because it is cheaper than lead. It is also low grade steel that is no more armor piercing than lead core ammo. Not to mention that both lead and steel core ammo will pierce the soft armor that cops use.

Facts don't bother politicians, EVER.

Crosshair: WURD and TRUE DAT.
\Thank you for the info.
\\Theres no money in facts and percentages.

Under Delaware law, the homeowner will not be charged. Shooting at an occupied vehicle (even at the tires) is considered "deadly force" here, but he was clearly acting in self-defense.

This is why my Saiga-12 is loaded with 9 rounds of #00 buck.... and my wife's Mossberg has five slugs in the tube. The ammo is lead, but the target wouldn't live long enough to die of any kind of poisoning.

Ah, this happened in what we northern Delawareans like to call the "slower-lower" (anything south of the culturally bisecting C&D Canal).

... makes sense.

Ah yes the old "intimidate someone and get blown away" trick.

farkin American dumbasses.

Classic.

Hey, it's only a shotgun, it's not like they are dangerous or anything.

Crosshair: The use of steel shot has wounded and caused more harm to game and the environment than lead ever could.

I take no issue with the wounding of game part. But environmental damage? Lead (like all heavy metals) increases the backround antibiotic resistance. Doesn't seem to be too much of a problem in the aquatic environment does it? Except bacteria tend to transfer their resistance plasmids between species.

You say steel has some problems concerning the sport hunter. I am fairly ignorant in this matter, considering I only shoot clays. But, to say that lead is without problems is just wrong. Sure it has its problems, and well in some cases these environmental problems may not have a significant human impact, in others they may. Who knows what the ultimate best choice is? While it might not be as effective a load than steel, think about MRSA and VRSA when you shoot lead. These problems are not going away. And I know id rather not require an amputation due to one of those infections than to have duck for dinner.

Crosshair

Elemental lead in living tissue is inert for the most part, at worst the body encases it in scar tissue. Just look at all the people with bullets in their bodies and they arn't falling like flies.

Err. . . .

Hurm . . . . . .

Oh! You mean the ones that survive! Never mind.

williehorton
This is why my Saiga-12 is loaded with 9 rounds of #00 buck.... and my wife's Mossberg has five slugs in the tube. The ammo is lead, but the target wouldn't live long enough to die of any kind of poisoning.

Wow...your epenis is huge. That'll show'em.

My home street has finally made Fark! I grew up on Grears Corner Rd!

Here it is:


Makes me so home sick.

BTW. If you stop in this yard, my father will probably give you worse than birdshot.

Virtual Farker
Other than the obvious reply (fark off, l0ser), my posting was meant to be informative.
If you're keeping a loaded firearm for defensive purposes, its ammunition should be the right kind to do the job.
Shooting an attacker with birdshot is likely to be ineffective, and may result in extremely expensive legal action.
When you reach the decision to point a firearm at another human being, you have decided to kill them. Not frighten, not wound, kill.
My wife and I sincerely hope that we never make this decision... but, if we do, we intend to carry it out without failure. Owning one of the best assault shotguns on God's gray Earth, and filling it up with the right ammo, is a key element in that strategy.

/so fark off, l0ser

Everyone knows the true slower lower Delaware is really south of Dover. (That's the state capital, for you outsiders). If you are close enough to the canal to go to Christiana when your neighbor shoots you, you're not really slower-lower.

I used to live in Laurel, the second slowest and lowest town in DE. We could always look down on folks from Delmar.

Finally an article where the "get off my lawn" cliche could be employed effectively, and smitty pulls off this clumsy condensation of the actual article for a headline.

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We have all learned a valuable lesson....keep off people's lawns and you will not be shot. Simple.

Wow, williehorton, after Virtual Farker's comments, I wasn't convinced of the size of your epenis, but WOW.

Owning one of the best assault shotguns on God's gray Earth, and filling it up with the right ammo, is a key element in that strategy.

How do you fit that giant epenis in your pants?