New York:

A man celebrating his birthday with a bow and arrow in his apartment was charged with reckless endangerment after an errant shot shattered a window across the street, the district attorney's office said.

Two other arrows hit scaffolding on another building in the affluent East Side neighborhood when Noel Luria, 39, was shooting from his apartment into a target block mounted on his windowsill, police said. No one was injured.

What an idiot.

My advice:  if you can't hit a target from within your own apartment, give it up.

At WFTV.com:

An 11-year-old Ocoee boy was arrested for playing with a toy gun. Police said the arrest was necessary, because it was a safety issue.

The boy was using a rubber band gun and his father said the kid did nothing wrong, but police said they take it as a serious threat and the 11-year-old is facing felony charges.

The crime isn't very common, but Ocoee police said it is serious. It centers on an 11-year-old boy and his toy short-barreled shotgun.

[...]

Eyewitness News spoke to the father of the suspect on the phone. He said his son is out of juvenile detention and that a judge told him the case would be dropped. He also confirmed that the gun was black, but that it looked more like a stick than a gun.

So.  Not even Florida is free from hysterical knickers-knotting stick-ophobia.  Can't call it hoplophobia, because no weapons were involved.  Just a stick.  They have refrained from publishing a photo of said stick.  Too bad, because I have a feeling it would only serve to reinforce my contempt for this woman who soiled her silkies because of a rubber-band shooter.

However, I did Google one up.  No telling if this is the model in question or not, but you can see it at Think Geek.  Maybe she thought it was a Kill-O-Zap.

I must say, a rubber band shooter that releases 10 at once is extremely cool.  Man, I would never get to play with something like that if I bought one.  My son would never let me get my hands on it.  Although I could probably whack him several times with my single-shot rubber band shooter while he was reloading.

And that's not all.  I took a screen shot of the article this morning just in case it changed (so far, it hasn't).  Check it out (click to enlarge):


Yeah, you might need a soft cloth to wipe the irony off your screen right about now.

It's a good thing it wasn't a pineapple.

Via The Liberty Zone.