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Girl In Halloween Costume Mistaken For Skunk, Shot By Relative

October 22, 2012 at 8:38 am by  

Girl In Halloween Costume Mistaken For Skunk, Shot By RelativeFREEDOM, PA – A 9-year-old girl attending a Halloween party was shot by a relative who mistakenly thought the girl was a skunk.

New Sewickley Police Chief Ronald Leindecker said the girl was at a Halloween party Saturday wearing a black costume and a black hat with white tassel. At around 8:30 that evening, the girl strayed away from the two to three dozen guests at the home and hid on the edge of a hill near the home.

Unfortunately for her, a male relative at the party thought she was a skunk, and he really does not like skunks. The unidentified man grabbed a shotgun and fired, hitting the “skunk” in the shoulder, arm, back and neck.

She was reportedly conscious and talking as she was airlifted to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where she currently remains in the intensive car unit. Leindecker says the relative hadn’t been drinking at the time of the shooting, and he doesn’t know if any charges will be filed against him.

I’m not sure how big skunks get in Pennsylvania, but where I live they never get much bigger than an average cat. That being said, I guess I can’t blame the guy,  If I saw a skunk the size of a 9-year-old girl creeping around my house where I was holding a costume party, I’d shoot it too. Common sense be damned… you have to protect the children!

 

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    • JohnQknowitall

      Wow! That stinks!

    • http://www.facebook.com/HamsterNinjaofDOOM Alecia Hendricks

      e.e What a dumb shit.

    • come_and_see

      Wow, how does a 9 year old look like a skunk? It must of been the biggest skunk he’s ever seen.

    • Sam

      So did she at least win the prize for ‘Most Lifelike Costume’?

    • JGo555

      I call bullshit. No costume can be made to look THAT good without Hollywood “magic” behind it. I hope she can walk.

    • http://twitter.com/MeliMachiavelli Meli Magdalene

      -sigh- Bravo dumbass.

    • Sorrow_discord

      Good old Beaver County where most lack common sense.

      Now the largest I ever seen a Skunk in the Keystone State (I lives in Westmoreland County, pa) is what I assume to be average size, about cat sized. Wonders if alcohol was involved or maybe they just thought it was some mutant skunk that had risen from the backwoods and was seeking revenge for all the corpses of its smaller brothers and sisters that litter the sides of the roads.

    • Andyman

      I hope the little girl will be ok. The shooter should be charged with being a fucking idiot if nothing else. Really? A 60-80 lb skunk? Isn’t that about how much a 9 year old weighs? My 5 year old is 45 lbs.

    • curiousalways

      This is an example of what happens when you go to a party and DON’T drink alcohol. If he’d had his beer goggles on he would have clearly known this was not an 70ish pound skunk.

    • newstarshipsmell

      “Leindecker says the relative hadn’t been drinking at the time of the shooting, and he doesn’t know if any charges will be filed against him.”

      I hope they took his guns away from him, if nothing else. If you cannot distinguish between a small animal and a child in costume, sober…

    • Heather_Habilatory

      *golf clap* Way to live up to redneck stereotypes.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Grotpeter/1618113467 Jennifer Grotpeter

      All you need to buy a shotgun here (in MO) is to be 18 years old. Now I am starting to think there should be a small test, like the one you have to pass to get a driver’s license. For the driver’s test, you have to look in the little viewer and identify the images of the stop sign, a yield sign, a speed limit sign, etc… for a shotgun, perhaps you could identify a wild turkey, a clay pigeon, a skunk, and a small child…
      BTW, my 9 year old weighs about 50 pounds, but she’s skinny.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

      I seriously doubt dude was not drinking….either that of the fucker needs some glasses. WTF chuck?

    • Athena

      This further reinforces my strict belief that Halloween costumes should be scary. Nobody’s gonna shoot a zombie around Halloween.

    • OutOfBubbleGum

      She was hiding?
      DAM IT! THAT’S IT. IT’S TIME HE PAYS.
      How many more victims must suffer before Pepe Le Pew is arrested?

    • http://twitter.com/christop999 christopher whiteman

      i suppose he could be charged with attempting to kill an endangered species

    • Sam

      Are you saying that with beer goggles on, he would have tried to make love, not war?

    • Sam

      Maybe, but decapitations might become more prevalent.

    • CT

      I thought a shotgun blast to the head could kill a zombie? If not, I need to rethink my contribution to the bunker besides NSSS Oreos.

    • curiousalways

      absolutely! Alcohol makes everything a little happier. Well at least in my world, now that I think about not so much in a lot of these DD people’s worlds.

    • velvetjoneslives

      Yep. I’m as pro 2nd amendment as they get, but there are some people that are just too stupid to own fire arms. This sort of crap happens every deer season though. People don’t wait to see what they’re shooting at. They just see the bushes rattle and they fire.

    • Reen B

      Way too many. Some brain trust in Maine shot a woman who was in her backyard hanging laundry with white mittens on, thinking she was a deer. Broad daylight too. My mother used to make me stay out of the woods during hunting season because of this kind of stupidity.

    • HellcatJesi

      I wonder if this guy went to the party dressed as Mr. Magoo… then decided to take his costume to the next level.

    • Heather4877

      Only if it’s a double tap

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=606239068 Anthony Mandich

      yeah fucking right he mistook her for a skunk….after he drank a keg of pabst blue ribbon….

      off with his motherfucking drunk ass head

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1106642961 Alice Hennen

      That little girl might need to review her hygiene practices. If she smells that bad that someone mistook her for a skunk, there’s something not quite right…

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    • newstarshipsmell

      Wow, he really looks like the sort that would mistake his 8yo cousin for a skunk. Sober. And lol, his preliminary hearing is on All Saints Day. Guess they wanted to wait for the evil spirits to disperse.