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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man laughs at Cheney accident. Girlfriend shoots man. Ha ha ha.
2006-02-16
Lafayette resident Josh Kayser chuckled Monday afternoon when he read about Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a friend during a quail hunt over the weekend. A few hours later, paramedics rushed Kayser, 21, to the hospital after his girlfriend accidentally shot him while they were trailing a raccoon. “I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself ‘How can you shoot your friend with your gun?’ And look what happened,” he said Tuesday.

Kayser and his 17-year-old girlfriend spent Monday night hunting raccoons that had been preying on chickenÂ’s on his familyÂ’s property on the 2300 block of 95th Street north of Lafayette. At about 9:30 p.m., Kayser crouched down to look under a shed where he thought a wounded raccoon was hiding. His girlfriend, whom police did not identify, crouched down behind Kayser and accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle.
Hukka hukka hukka... Hee-hee-larious, ain't it, Bub?
Posted by:DragonFly

#17  Phil... It's in Colorodo, but you can see my confusion....

Breed ban draws protest
More than 100 dog owners asked city leaders Wednesday to reject a ban on pit bull dogs and other specific breeds, showing pictures of their pets and saying they support better enforcement of existing vicious dog laws.
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Cold showers
ItÂ’s time to shove those short-sleeved shirts and lightweight jackets to the back of the closet and replace them with thermal long underwear and goose-down parkas.
“We’re finally going to have a week of winter,” said Chad Gimmestad, a National Weather Service-Boulder forecaster.
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Property owner busted for illegal trash fire
A property owner who said he previously set two other trash fires on his property may face fines for burning trash again Wednesday, a high-pollution day.
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Posted by: 6   2006-02-16 17:44  

#16  in case you have never heard night time IS when you hunt racoons
Posted by: Elmiting Gluger1772   2006-02-16 17:25  

#15  You hunt raccoons with dogs and shotguns, not rifles.
The last time I killed one we were both inside an 5x8 hen house at midnight with the hens flapping around. Not the best place for a shotgun, used a 22 rifle. Pistol would have been better, but you use what you have. (Yes, that was a different racoon from the one previously mentioned.)
Posted by: KBK   2006-02-16 17:20  

#14  Raccoons? I hit one in its ample backside with a pellet gun (It was all I had at the time). It turned and gave me the dirtiest look I've even seen. But it did run off.
Posted by: Whaviter Unumble2450   2006-02-16 15:25  

#13  Most of my kind swear by the number 4 boulder for use with racoons, although it's been regulated out of existance in the lowland areas because of environmental concerns; they tend to want you to use a steel alloy substitute instead these days.

I bypass both of those and generally stick with a pile driver instead.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2006-02-16 14:29  

#12  
"You hunt raccoons with dogs and shotguns, not rifles."

There is BIG difference in "hunting" raccoons for sport, and waiting up for the bastards to kill them for preying on your poultry.

I use .22 Thompson Contender.

There's more than one way to kill a raccoon.
Posted by: Nuck Fozzle2168   2006-02-16 14:24  

#11  Phil? Aquaintences?

It appears to be one of the other Lafayettes scattered throughout the country.
Posted by: Phil   2006-02-16 14:24  

#10  Crusader Rabbit! That rang a bell, but no memories, yet.

(For those of you too young to even remember the name, a '50's TV show - cartoon, I presume.)
Posted by: Bobby   2006-02-16 14:12  

#9  Shotguns are nice, but Jimmah hunts with oars.
Posted by: Crusader Rabbit   2006-02-16 13:48  

#8  You hunt raccoons with dogs and shotguns, not rifles.
Posted by: RWV   2006-02-16 13:37  

#7  Fate has a sense of humor and is a gun owner.
Posted by: mmurray821   2006-02-16 12:12  

#6  Phil? Aquaintences?
Posted by: 6   2006-02-16 08:25  

#5  I'd much rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-02-16 08:03  

#4  Karma is a real bitch some days.
Posted by: Mike   2006-02-16 06:23  

#3  Yeah, night, that's when the racoons go after your chickens.

I had one once that killed one chicken a night until he got them all, despite my best efforts with a have-a-heart trap. I was so ticked that I went to the store and bought dressed chickens and hung them up over a leg trap. Took three more nights and three more chickens, he was pretty clever. I nailed his tail to the henhouse door and my wife took a marker and drew a picture of a racoon around it.
Posted by: KBK   2006-02-16 00:55  

#2  ...Monday night hunting...

...um, yeah...hunting at night.
Posted by: DragonFly   2006-02-16 00:19  

#1  "here, hold mah beer"
Posted by: Frank G   2006-02-16 00:05  

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