Unless it happened somewhere inside the Renaissance Fair, this is unacceptable.
According to Uproxx, a 27-year-old Cranston, R.I., man violated his probation and then some when he tried to shoot a pigeon in his driveway using a bow and arrow but instead struck a 9-year-old girl.
Police said Daniel King’s arrow ricocheted off the driveway and hit Lexi Franco in the back as she was walking with three of her friends on a nearby sidewalk. Franco’s sister Angel Lucchetti said she thought the arrow was a plastic one at first, but when it fell out and she saw blood, she knew it was more serious.
“She had a hole in her back,” Lucchetti said. “Like a big hole.”
Franco was treated for minor injuries and later released from Hasbro Children’s Hospital, which sounds like a hospital kids try to get into on purpose.
Meanwhile, King is in deep shit, even after turning himself in and checking to see if Franco was OK. He was charged with felony assault and violating probation.
We’re assuming both could have been avoided if he would have tried shooing away the pigeon simply by walking toward it.
Just when you thought it doesn’t get any stranger than a bow and arrow in an urban area, this guy uses a bucket of piss for a weapon: Man Throws Bucket of Urine on Building Inspector (Insane Mug Shot Included)
