[TheeBadOne]

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=45964&section=BREAKING_NEWS&subsection=BREAKING_NEWS&year=2003&month=6&day=30


An Aliso Viejo man remained jailed on $1 million bail today for allegedly shooting an arrow into a sheriff’s deputy’s leg.

Tri Thanh Lam, 44, was arrested Sunday, one day after the shooting on Aliso Creek Road between Hummingbird Lane and West Wing, said Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino.

The deputy had stopped a motorist at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and was giving her a warning, Amormino said, but investigators do not believe it was linked to the shooting.

A patrol car camera showed the hunting arrow as it came from a southeast direction and sank deep into the deputy’s right calf, Amormino said.

The tape shows the deputy removing the arrow, which fractured a bone in his leg.

He was treated at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo and later released.

Deputies canvassed the area Saturday evening and Sunday. When they knocked at Lam’s residence, in the 40 block of King Eider, he opened his garage door and deputies saw a bow and arrows that matched the one that struck the deputy, Amormino said.

Lam was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and booked into the Men’s Central Jail. Amormino did not know whether Lam was aware that the deputy had been struck. "Regardless of that, it’s negligence."

Lam is scheduled to make his first court appearance today, a jail clerk said.

[Destructo6]

Them Dukes, them Dukes...

[Skunkabilly]

Is removing a stuck arrow bad?

(dont' know nothin' about plugging holes or fixing people, but I can fix a computer real good :o )

That sucks, that's just a few miles south of me. :fire:

[PrudentGT]

Never, ever remove an impaled object. Had the arrow hit his femoral artery and been plugging the hole, he would have bled out in minutes. That's almost (almost) as negligent as the idiot with the bow...

[CZ-100]

I saw the video this morning, when the arrow hit he bent over and pulled it out and hopped off camera. I'm sure it hurt... Ouch..:what:

[cslinger]

He's lucky it didn't hit him in the chest as Kevlar doesn't offer much protection against sharp opjects.

My first thought was ooooo don't take the arrow out!!!! But in retrospect since I am just armchair quarterbacking I would have probably yanked the sucker out as a reflex before I thought about what I was doing.

Hope the guys alright.

Chris

[Quantrill]

Now he knows how Custer felt!! Quantrill

[Chuck Perry]

Also saw the video this morning. I think they have the wrong person in custody. It was obviously Cupid.

[10-Ring]

I saw the video this AM :what: WOW :what: I''m glad they caught the shooter & that the deputy wasn't more seriously injured!

[bigjim]

People! Post a link to the video please!!! This I have to see!

Links that work that is.....

[Sgt]

Personally, I don't think it was intentional.....looks to me like the guy was practicing in his back yard and screwed up. The arrow flew over his back fence and across the road....it was a total fluke that the Deputy was standing in that exact spot. I'm not defending the guys actions, I just don't think it was premeditated.......They were practice arrows by the way, with pretty blunt tips and I'm guessing his vest would have stopped it also. I'm no authority, but common sense tells me that the shooter was just stupid and not evil. I'm sure more info will be forthcoming......and then with what's happened the last few days in Orange County.....the anti's will be on the let's ban bows and samuri swords bandwagon!

Semper Fi, Sgt

[Skunkabilly]

Now he knows how Custer felt!!

:rolleyes: cute:banghead:

[Bruz]

he opened his garage door and deputies saw a bow and arrows that matched the one that struck the deputy,

Either the guy was REAL stupid or had no idea what happened. To show my stupidity with the hope of educating, I was practicing with my bow in my back yard (on one acre), the arrow clipped the 3-D target and ricocheted off, went through two hay bails, a quarter inch of plywood, through two Juniper trees (between many branches), and ended up stuck on the top rail of the back fence 20 yards away! Very scarrey...

[zahc]

Ppl don't give enough thought to bow safety, because they are not as scared of bows as guns. Bows are quiet. +'bow safety' even sounds lame.

[Sir Galahad]

There are people killed each year with bows. It just usually doesn't get the airplay a regular shooting with a gun gets. The bow has yet to fall under the "evilness"yet, though give the antis time and they'll be on the bandwagon for restrictions on them. "What?! No waiting period for a bow!? This is insane! Think of the children!" I recall a murder committed with a bow in the town where I grew up. Guy killed the sancho messing around with his wife with one. Kind of made a guy wonder if those ol' Bear Razorheads really were "pass-thru" like they said.

[4v50 Gary]

Must have been a field point and not one of those bladed target points. The target points should be removed by a pro. The field points are easier, but you still have to worry about death by dehydration (hey, the bleeding's gotta stop sooner or later). OUCH!

[Jack T.]

Yeah, that is what I am thinking. . .Had it been broadheads, that officer would have been in a world of hurt. I'd MUCH rather be shot with a firearm than a bow ( assuming I had to be shot at all ).

And I probably would have yanked it out too. . .Rain on plugging the hole, just stop the pain :(

[Bruz]

Yes it was a field point...the cop was almost facing in the direction the arrow came from. It looked strange as the arrow was only about 18" off the ground and going into his leg almost parallel with the ground. It was not deep at all and slid right out.

[TheeBadOne]

It must have hit pretty hard to break a bone :eek:

[bigjim]

Somebody really needs to post a link to this video.

[Bruz]

Somebody really needs to post a link to this video.

I've seen it a few times, but on FOX News...

[Kentucky Rifle]

There's a golf course close to here where the guy who teed off "flubbed" a couple of times. He got mad and threw his driver against a tree. The driver broke in half and the sharp half flew back and stuck in the guy's NECK! He pulled it out and promptly bled to death. Makes you wonder what a .45 caliber hollow point to the same artery would do.<shudder>

KR