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4 year olds, packing pistol-grips

mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
edited January 2009 in Strut Central
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/05/international/i164813S08.DTL&tsp=1"Boy, 4, shoots babysitter for stepping on his foot"
Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.Witnesses told police the 4-year-old retrieved the shotgun from a bedroom closet and shot Beavers. Police said the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot.Beavers was hospitalized with minor pellet wounds to his arm and side.Police say another teen was also injured with shotgun pellets.Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen said authorities are investigating the shooting. The child has not been charged.

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  • Controller_7Controller_7 4,052 Posts
    what do you even do to a 4 year old? He's not even really school age yet. Kind of a tough one because he can't really go around shooting people and getting away with it, but you can't put him in Juvie.

    no ice cream for a year?
  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
    Someone needs a time out.
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