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Cat shoots boy in freak accident
Dayton Daily News
CANTON | A pet cat jumped on an air rifle that then fired, wounding a teenage boy, the boy’s mother said.
Reports filed by Stark County sheriff’s deputies said the boy, Josiah V. Boughman, 15, was grazed on his right side just below his ribs with an air rifle’s pellet.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Monday outside his home in nearby Tuscarawas Township west of Massillon.
Sheriff’s deputies met his mother, Mary A. Boughman, outside his hospital room. She told them her son had been at a barn about 50 yards from his family’s house, shooting at rats.
Returning to the house, he put the air rifle on a picnic table, neglecting the weapon’s safety, reports said.
The boy’s mother told deputies a cat, one of the family’s household pets, jumped on the table and touched the gun.
Staff at the hospital where the boy was treated told deputies boy’s wound is not life threatening.
[From the Dayton Daily News: 04.20.2003]
Next Headline: Cat Arrested, led away in handcuffs.
Dayton Daily News
CANTON | A pet cat jumped on an air rifle that then fired, wounding a teenage boy, the boy’s mother said.
Reports filed by Stark County sheriff’s deputies said the boy, Josiah V. Boughman, 15, was grazed on his right side just below his ribs with an air rifle’s pellet.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Monday outside his home in nearby Tuscarawas Township west of Massillon.
Sheriff’s deputies met his mother, Mary A. Boughman, outside his hospital room. She told them her son had been at a barn about 50 yards from his family’s house, shooting at rats.
Returning to the house, he put the air rifle on a picnic table, neglecting the weapon’s safety, reports said.
The boy’s mother told deputies a cat, one of the family’s household pets, jumped on the table and touched the gun.
Staff at the hospital where the boy was treated told deputies boy’s wound is not life threatening.
[From the Dayton Daily News: 04.20.2003]
Next Headline: Cat Arrested, led away in handcuffs.
