Posted on 08/02/2010 10:40:41 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
12-year-old Roseville boy died when he was hit by a rock from an oversized slingshot. Roseville police say the boy and a friend were at Bruce Russel Park Sunday afternoon and were shooting rocks out of the homemade slingshot. Chief Rick Mathwig says the boys launched a 6 pound rock into the air several times, but the last time it came down and hit the boy in the chest. Mathwig says the child was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports an autopsy is scheduled Monday.
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What tragically bad luck. I wonder if CPR could have helped restart his heart.
6 pounds is a cannonball. The headline makes it seem as if this was an accident from a Dennis the Menace sized back pocket sling shot. This was a monster of a slingshot.
This sounds like the death of the first Confederate during the War of Northern Aggression. The soldier was hit in the chest with a spent round. The bullet did not penetrate but the trauma caused his heart to stop beating. Weird the ways we can die.
Sad. RIP.
Actually if hit in the chest by an object, over the heart, in between beats the heart will stop. This has happened with basketballs and soccer balls and baseballs hitting a person, also a punch thrown at a persons chest can also have the same effect. More than likely this is what happened and if CPR had been administered immediately the kid probably would not have died.
Sad story. Do they really need an autopsy? Isn’t a 6 lbs rock good enough?
Think I need a refresher on my CPR. Most EMTs tell me that it really does no good for a heart attack. With such a young victim maybe it would have been successful. Will never know. Having done equally stupid things in my youth, its a there but for the grace of God go I sort of thing. Prayers up for kid and his family.
Having done far more stupid things in my youth, its a there but for the grace of God go I ...
One of our idiot MN legislators will probably propose a ban on slingshots now.
Probably one of the ‘Flowerpot Gang’.
A buddy of mine, back about the same age as these kids, had a HUGE rubber band from somewhere. We would double wrap it around the posts at the end of his driveway and launch stuff into the field across the street. Or, a few times at an angle over the old widow’s house and into her backyard.
The favorite was homemade “arrows” (spears really) out of 1” x 1” boards with cardboard feathers. Glad we never killed anyone - we easily could have- stupid kids.
The Lawyers need an Autopsy to know who to sue. There is the elastic maker, the sling maker, who ever made the frame they used, who ever owned the land and of course they would sue God for gravity and rock ownership if they could serve him.
What I find amazing is that this kid qualifies for a Darwin Award before he reached puberty.
My sympathy goes out to his family. These tragic events are part of the learning of the species as a whole, but that never lessens the hurt that an individual’s family must feel.
You’ll shoot your eye out.
I think my kid weapon of choice would be a potato cannon.
Those things are gas to shoot off.
I think my kid weapon of choice would be a potato cannon.
Those things are (a) gas to shoot off.
Any guy here who owned a WristRocket, which is NOT oversized by any means, knows how deadly a properly engineered slingshot can be.
RIP young fella.
thinking.... yeah, we were shooting baseballs at a water tower out of a water-balloon slingshot, lost one in the twilight, came whistling through the air (bounced off) and hit my friend in the back, knocking him down...
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