Woman points gun at clarinet playing kid
UncategorizedThis may not be the full story.
A woman was arrested in Clifton, Colorado, last week after pointing a rifle at an 11 year-old boy who was practising clarinet in the yard.
The woman was drunk; that much is uncontested. The rifle, it is reported, may have been unloaded.
The boy was playing outside because there was a baby asleep in his grandma’s house and he had to do his homework.
But what got the neighbor so mad that she grabbed a gun and ran outside yelling ‘fire in the hole’? According to one news report, the boy was holding the instrument upside down.
Cheryl Ann Pifer, 60, was released on $5,000 surety.
It doesn’t matter if the gun is loaded or not, not even if it is a real rifle. If one scares a child with a weapon, one deserves a punishment.
Depending on the situation this could however be resolved with an apology instead of with a tax payer financed judge.
Drunk people are so good at determining if a weapon is loaded or not.
Apparently she pointed her weapon at several children. More information can be found here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754203/Woman-60-pointed-rifle-screamed-boy-practicing-clarinet-neighbors-backyard.html
If you look at the picture in this article it strikes me as rather odd that a boy in a backyard somewhere in Colorado would play a German system clarinet. Maybe this was infuriating the neighbour?
Rifle seems excessive. Biotoxins are the way to go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwcdJRqx3b4