No matter what my good intentions are, I don't seem to be able to blog with any regularity. Well, I'm not dead yet, so there is still hope for me :-)
For now, here's the beginning of an article in the February 5th "Monadnock Ledger," the closest thing we have to a local newspaper (it's weekly):
Peterboro' youth charged in shootingNew Ipswich woman shot in the face with BB
By Daymond Steer
Monadnock Ledger StaffNEW IPSWICH -- Police have charged a 16-year old male from Peterborough with first-degree assault for allegedly shooting a New Ipswich woman in the face with a BB gun last November.
____________________, 51, was collecting her mail on Turnpike Road at 9:40 a.m. Nov. 17 when a car drove by and a shooter opened fire with a BB gun. She was struck in the cheek just below her right eye.
After the incident, __________ told the Ledger that the shooter was in a car that came from behind and the power of the shot was overwhelming. She said she felt lucky that the BB had not hit her in the eye...
And you think living in a city is dangerous?!?!?!? Do they have drive-by BB shootings?!?!?!
(And notice how there was no way to escape the allusion to "you could take out somebody's eye"?...)
Posted by alan at February 16, 2004 11:24 AM