Squirrel hunter shoots herself

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From the Associated Press:

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Jun 16, 6:26 PM EDT

Woman Trying to Kill Squirrel Shoots Self

LAPORTE, Ind. (AP) -- A 78-year-old woman tired of squirrels raiding her bird feeder got out her shotgun to kill the critter, but instead accidentally shot and injured herself. Alberta Jones loaded her 16-gauge shotgun Sunday and carried it with the barrel pointed down to the back door to take aim, police said. The gun accidentally discharged, police said, and shotgun pellets ricocheted off the floor.

Both of her legs were struck by the pellets, and one in her knee required surgery Tuesday to remove.

Her hospital condition was not available Tuesday evening.

"I've tried everything to shag them away, and they keep coming back," Jones said of the squirrels after the incident.

Conservation officer Jerry Shepherd with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said it is not squirrel season, and that hunting game out of season is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. Authorities are not pressing charges.

Jones vowed to keep shooting at squirrels and using firecrackers - as she has done several times before - to discourage them from getting into her bird feeder. She also shoots groundhogs and other animals she considers a nuisance.

"My neighbors call me Annie Oakley," she said.

 

[Justin]

"My neighbors call me Annie Oakley," she said.

Not with poor gun handling like that, they shouldn't.

 

[Chipperman]

Now they'll call her "Gimpy"

 

[JesusCow]

um, i just put out dried corn cobs for the squirrels.. they love that stuff.. my dog goes nuts right in their faces and they only care about the corn

edit: i mean, i enjoy hunting small game (thoroughly!), but i'd rather just sit and watch them in my backyard than have a pile of dead animals...

 

[PUMC_TomG]

Why am I not surprised that this story came out of Indiana.

:banghead:

 

[Nick1911]

Why am I not surprised that this story came out of Indiana.

Hey now; there's a LOT of good people here; accidents happen everywhere...

Nick

 

[PUMC_TomG]

No offense towards ya Nick... nor to the good firearms owners I met in Indiana...

but I'll be darned if the level of "backwardness" I noticed at times in that state wasn't astonishing.

(I went to Purdue Univ.... and actually lived in Indiana for 10 years.)

 

[Standing Wolf]

"My neighbors call me Annie Oakley," she said.

I'm sure the squirrels are laughing themselves silly, too.

 

[JohnKSa]

At the risk of pointing out the obvious and without wanting to be contentious, I'll nevertheless state that she is in no way shape or form a "Squirrel Hunter."

Squirrel killer, squirrel shooter, squirrel hater--all of those titles would work--but she's not a hunter by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Nick1911]

No offense towards ya Nick... nor to the good firearms owners I met in Indiana...

None at all taken... Just pointing out that stupidity lurks everywhere

but I'll be darned if the level of "backwardness" I noticed at times in that state wasn't astonishing.

I wasn't really aware of traits in people before I lived in Indiana, so that's probably a very valid point... I'll take your word for it

(I went to Purdue Univ.... and actually lived in Indiana for 10 years.)

Wow! I've lived in Indiana for 10 years, and will be attending Purdue in the fall! Good to meet another fellow Purduevian

Nick

 

[burbanite]

I also have lived in Indiana for ten years, (seems to be popular number ), thank goodness that people are not afraid of firearms. I present to you the recent cases of the "Pizza Guy" and the 17 yr old boy protecting his mother from another beating...

If granny wants to shoot squirrels, and perhaps occasionally herself in the process, then I'm OK with that...

 

[ZeroX]

Good going, fellow Hoosier...

 

[PUMC_TomG]

It is a strange commonality.

And thankfully - Indiana is pretty firearms friendly. Open carry, Concealed Carry, no restrictions on Title II, and some decent firearms clubs around.

I just couldn't get past the lack of progress in the state. That, and the weather stinks.

 

[Kcustom45]

Hey if you don't like the weather here in Indiana, wait a minute.

 

[gunsmith]

hunting squirrels in Indiana

 

[Thrash1982]

I've lived in Indiana for 17 years and will be a senior at Purdue this coming semester.

 

[Sleeping Dog]

"I've tried everything to shag them away, and they keep coming back," Jones said of the squirrels after the incident.

Legs full of buckshot, and she's still focused on the "enemy". Gotta like this lady.

 

[tulsamal]

I've lived in Indiana for 17 years and will be a senior at Purdue this coming semester.

Wow, 17 years to get through three years of college! How long did it take for high school?!

(Sorry, couldn't resist!)

Gregg

 

[Heraclitus]

gunsmith: I almost peed in my pants when I saw that! Your killin' me, man!

burbanite: I was born a Hoosier (actually delivered across state lines in neighboring Illinois because that's where the family doctor had his practice). Add me to the 10-year group. Make that eleven. Some of my very best memories are of that time in my life. Oh, and yeah... granny does have every right to blast those frickin' squirrels. gunsmith's picture says it all.

 

[gunsmith]

heh! thanks

I came to the thread a little late though

 

[cordex]

PUMC_TomG,
I've lived here for nine years. California before here. West Virginia before that. A few years in Wisconson as a very young child.

If you think people in Indiana are backwards, you obviously haven't been around much. Compared to folks I met in Southern California (Orange County area), the back-woods, backwards hicks of Indiana seem positively urbane.

PS Have you replaced those Lee presses yet?

 

[flatrock]

Conservation officer Jerry Shepherd with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said it is not squirrel season, and that hunting game out of season is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. Authorities are not pressing charges.

You can't kill rodents on your own property if they're out of season now? Is this Indiana law?

I always though there was a difference between going out hunting, and killing animals that were being pests or damaging your property. Am I mistaken?

 

[tcdrennen]

cordex-

If you think people in Indiana are backwards, you obviously haven't been around much. Compared to folks I met in Southern California (Orange County area), the back-woods, backwards hicks of Indiana seem positively urbane.

Just curious where these OC mouthbreathers are. I've been here since '78 and it's gotten 'way TOO "urbane" - nearly urban, actually. We used to have outdoor rifle ranges here, all gone 10 years (there's that number again! ) back. Now I have to drive 25 or 50 miles for anything over 25 yards.

Having lived in NYC, eastern MA, rural PA, and seen a piece of the world courtesy of Uncle Sugar prior to The OC, I'm not following the "backwards" thing, unless you mean "more socialist/liberal."

That is slowly happening due to exfiltration to NV-AZ and infiltration from L.A. and Los Estados Unidos de Mexico, but the bulk of OC is still fairly level headed, Republican-leaning-toward-libertarian types.

and now, back to The Thread, already in progress...

 

[Silent Bob]

Sounds like to me this woman is a raving idiot.

 

[cordex]

I'm not following the "backwards" thing, unless you mean "more socialist/liberal."

How else can you define "backwards"?

P.S. Urbane and urban are not the same thing. As demonstrated remarkably well by the residents of LA (or so it seemed to me in the mid nineties) where I found myself an awful lot.

I will admit, however, that the entire time I lived there I didn't read a news report like this.

Granny needs to learn the 4 rules.