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Random Stuff
Apple Store Shooting: Cops Release Video On YouTube
5:45PM Stephen Climpson | Do you know this guy? There’s a $US1000 reward for information leading to an arrest of the suspect in Friday’s shooting of a 26-year old employee at the Clarendon Apple Store in Arlington, Virginia. More »
Random Stuff
Woman Shot During “Violent Armed Robbery” At Apple Store
7:31AM Wilson Rothman | A 26-year-old employee was shot today during a “violent armed robbery” of the Clarendon Apple Store in Arlington, Virginia. Video news report embedded below—details at Cult of Mac. [Cult of Mac via BBG] More »
Press
Woman’s Hair Weave May Have Stopped Bullet
10:20AM Wilson Rothman | Say what? A Kansas City woman with a tight weave gets shot at by her boyfriend through a car window. Later, the cops find a spent bullet in her hair. Did the hair stop it? More »
Entertainment
70-Year Old Man Shoots TV, Engages in Standoff With Police Over DTV Transition
4:28AM Sean Fallon | Angered and distraught over the analogue TV shutdown, a 70-year old Missouri man blew away his TV and engaged in a brief standoff with police when he could not get his converter box to work. More »
Toys
Flying Duck Hunter Robot Will Appease PETA But Not Your Cold, Killing Instincts
12:30PM Mark Wilson | Who wants to hunt some ducks? I said, WHO WANTS TO HUNT SOME DUCKS?? More »
Weapons
Fairground Shooting Gallery Gets Flamethrower Makeover for Burning Man
10:41PM Kit Eaton | Created for this year’s Burning Man festival, the Flamethrower Shooting Gallery looks like one hell of a stress-relieving sideshow amusement. It was created by Matisse and Roxie and recently debuted at the Oakland The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival… presumably to a warm reception. Check out the short video to see it in action—though you might want to turn the volume down, the happy screams are a little loud. More »
Weapons
ST-2 Indoor Shooting Simulator Is Duck Hunt on Steroids
7:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | For the ultimate game of Duck Hunt, Marksman Training Systems is offering the ST-2 shooting simulator–the first on the market for shotgun and rifle shooting. Co-developed by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, the simulator is so accurate that its used by Russian and Slovakian national clay shooting teams as a way to practice before the Olympics. More »
Weapons
Gun Unsafety Video Shows Exactly How Not to Fire a Gun
1:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | We don’t go too nuts about real guns here on Giz, and over at Geekologie they found this video that shows why: there are some very dumb people out there. People who should never go near a weapon, let alone own or try to fire one. It’s a compilation of clips, some you’ll have seen before, some perhaps not… but put them all together and it’s horrifyingly fascinating blooper reel. My prize goes to the poor guy in the test range who suffers again and again… and again. [Geekologie] More »
Press
DVD Takes Bullet for Fire Chief in Fast-Food Shoot-Out
12:28AM Addy Dugdale | A loose DVD in a pocket saved a South Carolina man from injury after he unwittingly got involved in a firearm fracas outside a fast-food joint. Fire chief Barry McRoy was leaving the Waffle House restaurant at the weekend in the town of Walterboro when he got involved in a gun battle between two men. More »
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