On 20 Mar 2008 16:10:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Finnell) wrote: >'Fraid it's more serious these days. Had a friend whose dad was in >'retirement village' after spouse passed away and was getting ready for dove >season by >cleaning his 12gauge and this guy kicks in the front door! So he snaps the >breach and 'Says, hard to miss at this range' so the guy takes off running >and >made it about half way down the block before dead centering the dempster >dumpster. When the county mounties arrived they wanted to know how many times >he'd been shot? 'None, but he moved the dumpster about eight inches with his >head...'
>From what I've read - it was more serious in the past. I suppose it cycles, as I was not aware of such outside of my reading when I grew up in the 50's, although that may be *where* I lived more than *when* I lived. But there is a wealth of evidence that things were actually more dangerous for kids in the small towns and big cities a century ago than now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
