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Man trying to shoot off tree limb arrested
New Haven Register ^
| Tuesday, July 7, 2009
| By Register Staff
Posted on 07/20/2009 10:18:43 AM PDT by Wardenclyffe
NORTH HAVEN A man who allegedly used a shotgun to try to get rid of a tree limb in his backyard has been arrested.
Antonio Chiaia, 74, of 9 Cricket Court, was arrested at his home Saturday morning after a neighbor reported he was discharging a shotgun in his yard, Capt. James Merrithew said.
Chiaia told police he could not reach the tree limb with a saw...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: napl; shooting
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To: Wardenclyffe
LOLOL!!!! Hold muh beer bump!
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:19:40 AM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
(Time to CLEAN HOUSE (AND Senate!!!) Kick their butts to the curb!!)
To: Wardenclyffe
Well who hasn’t tried to shoot a limb off a tree with a shotgun when you can’t reach it with a saw?
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:22:36 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Wardenclyffe
shotguns are also useful for disconnecting downed power lines......
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:22:54 AM PDT
by
Vn_survivor_67-68
(CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
To: Wardenclyffe
I know of someone doing insect research who had a sharpshooter along to shoot off small branches from trees for samples. It was safer than having someone climb multiple trees to saw the branches off, and generally more efficient.
To: gimme1ibertee
That’s not an uncommon way of harvesting mistletoe.
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:23:24 AM PDT
by
dblshot
To: from occupied ga
Actually, the forestry department used to do this. Though it wasn’t in a residential neighborhood.
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:24:08 AM PDT
by
TruthBeforeAll
(The Amish are the barometers of freedom in this country.)
To: Wardenclyffe
I used to harvest my Christmas trees this way. Slugs worked best.
To: TruthBeforeAll
I’ve done it, though it was not in a suburban neighborhood.
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:25:23 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:26:21 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Wardenclyffe
Perhaps he ran out of dynamite?
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:26:45 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Wardenclyffe
Many years ago my dad had a friend of the family shoot down a large, dangerous, dangling limb that was unclimbably high in a large pine tree. He got it in one shot.
However, our yard backed onto about a million acres of largely uninhabited national forest.
Unlike this yutz, whose neighbors were probably more in danger than the branch was....
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:27:14 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: stuartcr
To: Tijeras_Slim
I had to run some coaxial cable through an exterior wall last week.
Hardware store wanted twelve bucks for a ten inch drill bit.
Hell with that, 7.62 x 39 worked just fine.
To: Slings and Arrows
It’s be to cut trees using a Minigun. It would probably take hours using a shotgun...
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:28:30 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Wardenclyffe
On behalf of redneck Southern males, let me say....
To: All
I knew a guy who harvested basil from his window box this way also. Unfortunately, his spaghetti sauce was a little gritty.
To: humblegunner
As long as it’s done from the inside out.
To: Wardenclyffe
When I have that problem, I use a ladder.
Once I had a real high one that was rubbing on the house. I climbed as high as I could, tossed a pipe wrench with a rope attached over it so that it wrapped around a time or two, then tied the rope to the trailer hitch and pulled the branch off.
Not exactly tree surgery, but better than wasting ammo.
To: Tijeras_Slim
"I used to harvest my Christmas trees this way." They make good eatin' if you clean 'em right away!
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posted on
07/20/2009 10:29:46 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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