"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered, yes - remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education - make them hunters."

Henry David Thoreau, 1854


“A citizen who shirks his duty to contribute to the security of his community is little better than the criminal who threatens it.” - Robert Boatman


Monday, May 5, 2008

Three shooting prairie dogs give churchgoers a scare

One man and two male youths hunting prairie dogs with BB guns in an empty lot near a Grand Junction church tonight gave churchgoers a scare, when they thought the shooters were aiming at them.

Officers with the Grand Junction Police Department pulled their weapons on the three people, all under 20, when they arrived at the River of Life Alliance Church, 701 Road 24 1/2, at about 5:45 p.m.

The three people, who are parishioners, didn’t mean to threaten churchgoers and didn’t know it was illegal

GJ Sentinel article just a click away

I'm fairly sure that a BB gun is not the "weapon of choice" or for than matter "...of consideration" for use in controlling Prairie-Rats. One must consider the source however--one man's Pellet gun might just be a news reporters BB gun

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