Yes, these fools definitely blow:
Primitive as it is, a blowgun is now on the list of things people use in drive-by shootings.
In an incident that at first left police incredulous, two men were charged Thursday in Southington with shooting a man in the leg with a blowgun. Police said the man was shot as he walked out of a store on Queen Street.
The man was one of three people shot apparently at random in the space of half an hour Thursday in Plainville and Southington. In all three cases, the attackers drove past their victim as they fired, police said.
Police in Plainville said two people were shot with blowgun darts there shortly before the Southington incident. They believe the two men arrested in Southington are the culprits in the Plainville attacks also.
Arrested were Jason Plourde, 27, of Waterbury, and Edward Youle, 33, of Southington. Police said they found three blowguns and a box of darts in their sport-utility vehicle.
“They thought it was funny,” Southington Police spokesman Sgt. Lowell DePalma said.
No one was seriously hurt, but one of the victims in Plainville went to the hospital to get a tetanus shot, said Plainville police Lt. Brian Mullins.
…Although dating to the Stone Age and not commonly associated with 21st century culture, blowguns are readily available on the Internet. They are legal to own except in California and Massachusetts.
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Categories: The Law & The Courts, Connecticut & Newington
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February 24th, 2007 at 2:28:26 pm
Wow. What’s next? Hijacking a plane with an atlatl?
February 24th, 2007 at 7:00:22 pm
Indeed. / Might even be Smuggleable aboard, at that.
(Of course initially I assumed I’d find “atlatl” in the Bestiary ~ “a djinni which dwells in carry-on luggage and likes to Importune airline pilots. Saudi Arabia.” ~ but No. :) (Just Newington Nerdystuff here, people, don’t Dwell on it :)
February 25th, 2007 at 5:53:01 am
I hadn’t realised that Sean was fluent in Nahuatl !
Joe - while it wouldn’t trip the metal detectors, the obsidian blades would probably raise some eyebrows !
February 25th, 2007 at 8:24:33 am
Alasdair, you obtuseian git. We’ll have none of your obsidious suggestions around here. (Nor sly imprecations, neither.) We hear you used to be quite the obsidian Blade yerself back in the day, by the way. But aztec yer auld náhuatl, being a cunning linguist in your Own right you should know that Sean is just plain Fluent, period. In fact around town he’s respectfully addressed as Your Fluency.
(Fluid smile :)
Yours for the Pike in the Thatch,
~ Ruiafaiis na Wattle
Chm, SF, Tlaxcala Brigade :>
February 26th, 2007 at 4:05:01 pm
Joe - from your exalted position as the sine qua nun of obtuseianity, high praise indeed ! (grin)
February 27th, 2007 at 9:58:35 am
Aladair: and richly deserved it is, too :>.
But in Regards to the abovecited curialous abstruseity of “Without Which, Nun”: if the Church would just circumcise that little dictum they could fix the Priestly Shortage. / So to Speak ;]
Excathedrally yours,
~ Sister Sinequa
(habitual smile :)