Sheboygan staged shootout turns a bit too real

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  1. December 16th, 2008 09:14 AM #1
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    SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- A staged shootout got a little too real when two people were shot with a gun mistakenly loaded with birdshot. The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Capt. Dave Adams said the shooting happened about 11 a.m. Sunday during a train robbery re-enactment held as part of the weekend Santa Steam Train event.

    Adams said participants were acting out a shootout between the train robbers and police when a gun sprayed 46 shotgun pellets into the arm, leg and abdomen of 49-year-old re-enactor Thomas E. Rumpff of Sheboygan.

    Two pellets struck a 14-year-old spectator. One embedded in his index finger, and another bounced off his knee.

    Adams said both were treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
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    What is going on at all these re-enactments?
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    How can you mistake birdshot or real bullets for blanks, unless the person in charge of loading the guns is a novice.
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    I hear that there is an opening for a 'props' man on that movie set...
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  7. December 16th, 2008 10:52 AM #6
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    Why would a person even stock up their _reenactment kit_ with real ammo when their task is to reenact stuff and thus be using blank rounds?
    One should not even leave home with real ammo nevermind check their ammo as loaded _before_ loading it into a given firearm.

    Stuff like this and that Bizilij boy's father are doing us no favors at all.

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    NOW thats what I call a re-enactment
    wait??? thats real blood are you sure
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    Moron alert. Sheesh. Antis jump all over this garbage. Of course, the amount of people killed with ladders, cars, and alcohol every year...
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    Okay a lead shotgun shell weighs a lot more than a blank,I'd charge the guy with reckless endangernment
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    Ooops! I read the title as "She Boy Gang" and thought, what's this all about? Gender bender gunfights?
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    Quote Originally Posted by buzzgum View Post
    Ooops! I read the title as "She Boy Gang" and thought, what's this all about? Gender bender gunfights?
    The first rule of a gunfight: "Don't be there !"
    The second rule: "Bring enough gun"

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukalmighty View Post
    Okay a lead shotgun shell weighs a lot more than a blank,I'd charge the guy with reckless endangernment
    Umm no you wouldn't. You're from Texas, I'm from Texas. Deadly Conduct is more along the lines of what we'd go with.
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