found in the woods near the Prospect Street school Tuesday morning.Credit BoydA.Loving
Posted on 02/27/2013 10:15:28 AM PST by dead
A toy bb gun was discovered by an employee of Sara's Preschool near school grounds Tuesday morning, according to Ridgewood police.
At roughly 8 a.m., a preschool employee found the bb gun in the woods by the Prospect Street facility. He alertly confiscated the toy gun and stored it for safe keeping until an officer arrived and removed it, according to police.
The bb gun was not loaded and police have not identified its owner, according to Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward.
"There was no evidence of criminal activity," Ward said. "No other weapons were located."
Detectives are investigating the discovery.
No, but it had a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time!
When I was in High School, we always had guns & ammo in the trunks of our cars, or behind the seat of the pick-up. As soon as school let out, we were out hunting, or fishing (with those DEADLY HOOKS! Eeeek!) until dark, then home to do chores and butcher/clean what we’d shot/caught.
If you had a disagreement with a fellow student, you didn’t go out to your car and get your rifle...THAT was considered unsportsmanlike! You settled it like ladies or gentlemen and beat the crap outta them with your bare fists out back by the dumpsters!
WHERE ARE ALL THE MEN IN AMERICA? We Conservative women STILL need you, no matter WHAT the FemiNazis have brainwashed you into thinking!
Has Andrew Cuomo been notified?
A trip down memory lane to a time before democrats
turned the entire country into an open lunatic assylum.
Wasn't that the greatest? My friends and I would spend hours setting them up and knocking them down.
The only thing I liked better was using the Red Rose Tea Animals (ceramic) and they would blow up very satisfyingly when hit!
I agree with the level of PC ludicracy concerning BB guns.
But... Are you a parent?
I don’t expect you would be ok with your kids engaging in BB gun wars regardless of laws or PC correctness. I too was involved in a couple of “BB gun wars” as a kid. That stopped when a kid named Jason had one penetrate his arm pit and get lost in his body. Chris swore he only used one pump and it was CO2. Jason had to have surgery to find and retreive the BB. Following an apparent neighborhood parent meeting, all guns were confiscated for the summer.
My firend’s dad, a Vietnam vet, taught me how to aim properly with a BB gun standing and on the ground when I was 6. This was in the 80s, and no one cared.
Now you find one in the woods and you have a police investigation? Did they get a grief counselor too?
Ah, you've been to the Eddie Eagle program, too!
That's great advice if you're five. If you're the principal of the school, not so much. :-)
Lock the school down! Get the helicopters hovering overhead!
This is an example of how the news media people think. They like to tie one event to another, even when there is no connection. We’re supposed to think this is a continuation of the school shooting and become anxious.
Did you write this?
In my early years I owned several “real” guns and yes, a genuine Red Ryder, lever action BB gun. Amazingly throuh all those years,(almost 70 now) never once did one of those guns jump up and shoot at anything. Infact, some of those guns were loaded at the time but alas, no harm came to anything be it animal, bird or human. Now why do you suppose that ohappened all those years?
Some poor kid lost his BB gun in the woods (unloaded to boot) and will never find it again. It is a sad country we have become.
Not only that but it was an illegal unregistered military assault fully automatic Glock long bb gun with a 20 round clip.
And to think back in the olden days we left loaded shotguns in unlocked pickups parked in the school parking lot and no one was harmed or thought anything thing about it.
Some poor kid lost his BB gun in the woods (unloaded to boot) and will never find it again. It is a sad country we have become.
Some poor kid lost his BB gun in the woods (unloaded to boot) and will never find it again. It is a sad country we have become.
We tested our BBs on sunglasses. The sunglasses didn’t break, so we wore them and had BB gun wars.
Good fun!
Welts, but hey, it was war, and there were wounds.....
In my earlier years, I owned several guns including a genuine Red Ryder, lever action BB gun. Infact, during long periods of time, many of those guns were indeed, loaded. Not once in all those years did one of my guns jup up and shoot a bird, animal or a human. And, at that same time my wife and I raised two boys and never once did THEY misuse or handle those guns without my being there. (There were consequences and they know/knew it).
A child that is taught from an early age that a gun is a “tool” and nothing to be played with, much like a chain saw and other dangerous equipment will have respect for that tool and not infringe on the right to use and enjoy that tool when the time comes. People in this country have lost all perspective to reality and for that, I have grave concerns. We have become a nation of whimps indeed.
Yes, it's possibly a lost gun. That's hard for me to accept, though, as I still have mine (1960 vintage) with most of the finish worn off of the metal and wood. In the years of hard use I put on it, I never once lost it in the woods.
So, alternate possibility: School employee finds old BB gun at home in his closet, then hatches scheme to "find" it near the school. Our hero.
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