Try to kidnap my sister? That's a blastin'!

[RPM 26268]

With a fuckin slingshot!

Michigan boy who used slingshot to save sister says he 'was just lucky'

Alpena Township, Mich. — A 13-year-old Michigan boy who used a slingshot to save his 8-year-old sister from an attempted kidnapping said he was “freaking out” and simply reached for something that could stop the attack.

"So I grab my slingshot and open the window and I grab two things — a marble and a gravel rock or something,” Owen Burns told WWTV/WWUP-TV in Cadillac in northern Michigan.

Police said Owen struck the 17-year-old assailant in the head and chest, and his sister was able to get away.

“I was just lucky. He’s just a big target because he’s not like one Pepsi can,” Owen said.

The attempted kidnapping occurred on May 10 outside the family's home in Alpena Township. Owen's sister was outside looking for mushrooms.

"I say, ‘OK, be careful.' … And then, boom, something happens,” he recalled.

Owen heard a scream while playing video games but figured his sister was just "messing around” with friends. A second scream alarmed him.

“So I looked out the window and saw her being abducted by a person and I’m like freaking out,” Owen said.

That's when he grabbed his slingshot. Police caught the suspect and said he had visible wounds. The teen has been charged with attempted kidnapping and other crimes.

State police 1st Lt. John Grimshaw said Owen's actions were “extraordinary.”

He said the boy saved his sister's life or at least prevented “something seriously bad happening to her.”

Owen said he had to act.

“If I wasn’t out there and I didn’t hear her scream, then she was gone," he said.

[Dennis Taylor 18741]

Way to go kid! 

[BigHorn'13 3359]

44 minutes ago, RPM said:

Owen's sister was outside looking for mushrooms.

Uh 

[Gatorubet 30166]

The assailant better not tell that story when he’s sitting on the Group W bench. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

there's no cool way to pose with a slingshot

[YGIFS 19449]

Look at that Mama Bear's eyes.  She's going to find this kid when he gets out of Juvy and beat him to death with a baseball bat in front of his own family.  That 17yo wasn't trying to kidnap her daughter, she knows what he was gonna do with her.  That poor fuck has a lifetime of pain ahead of him.  Kudos to the brother though, he's got a badass story for the rest of his life and gets to put off chores to his sister for many years to come.  

[Elvis 3367]

Slingshot kid knew that his shroom-selling-dad would be pissed-right-off if his shroom-grubbing-sister got nabbed.  

That's my sister!  Don't take her shrooms!

 

[Wally Fairway 5533]

43 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

Uh 

It is morel season up here - lots of folks out trying to get theirs.
You can buy them at a market for between $75 - $100 per pound, sometimes even more; so people love to go out and find them.
I don't know anyone who sells them, but know lots of people who talk about going out Morel Hunting. It is a rural thing, so very popular in northern Michigan.

 

[YGIFS 19449]

$100 per pound for mushrooms that don't make you trip balls?  Now that deserves a blastin'!

I hadn't thought about morels since childhood in the northwoods on vacation.  Had no idea they were worth that kinda money.

Somewhat related---now that I look at that family photo closer, they all look like they're in varying stages of tripping on mushrooms.  They even forgot to bring the daughter to the photo op

[Deej 76653]

20 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

It is morel season up here - lots of folks out trying to get theirs.
You can buy them at a market for between $75 - $100 per pound, sometimes even more; so people love to go out and find them.
I don't know anyone who sells them, but know lots of people who talk about going out Morel Hunting. It is a rural thing, so very popular in northern Michigan.

 

And that is the morel of the story. 

[tomahawk dunk 321]

It’s time to bump junior up to an AR.

[YGIFS 19449]

Can we photoshop two sling shots onto Danny Devito with “so anyways, I start blasting!”

[RPM 26268]

It's too bad it wasn't a wrist rocket like they had when I was a kid. Those had a folding wrist brace and you could really put some high tension on the tubes. They came with 1/4 in ball bearings as projectiles and I have zero doubt you could penetrate skin and break bone with them.

Edited May 19, 2023 by RPM

[Gatorubet 30166]

58 minutes ago, RPM said:

It's too bad it wasn't a wrist rocket like they had when I was a kid. Those had a folding wrist brace and you could really put some high tension on the tubes. They came with 1/4 in ball bearings as projectiles and I have zero doubt you could penetrate skin and break bone with them.

When I would take my Boy Scouts on wilderness hikes like the BMT I would always bring a wrist rocket slingshot. In a pinch, you can use it to get a squirrel or a rabbit for supper. And also, in Bear country, you can use it right before the pissed off bear kills and eats you.