AR-News: (IN - US) Woman vows revenge against squirrels, shoots self instead

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Woman vows revenge against squirrels

        
Associated Press
June 16, 2004
 
LAPORTE, Ind. -- A 78-year-old woman tired of squirrels raiding her bird 
feeder got out her shotgun to kill the critter, but instead accidentally shot and 
injured herself. Alberta Jones loaded her 16-gauge shotgun Sunday and carried 
it with the barrel pointed down to the back door to take aim, police said. The 
gun accidentally discharged, police said, and shotgun pellets ricocheted off 
the floor.

Both of her legs were struck by the pellets, and one in her knee required 
surgery Tuesday to remove. Her hospital condition was not available Tuesday 
evening.

"I've tried everything to shag them away, and they keep coming back," Jones 
said of the squirrels after the incident.

Conservation officer Jerry Shepherd with the Indiana Department of Natural 
Resources said it is not squirrel season, and that hunting game out of season is 
a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. 
Authorities are not pressing charges.

Jones vowed to keep shooting at squirrels and using firecrackers -- as she 
has done several times before -- to discourage them from getting 

    

 
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