Third-Grader Struck by Mystery Arrow While on a Field Trip to UC Berkeley

[onehandle]

Police are still unsure who shot the arrow that struck the leg of an 8-year-old girl while she was playing near the entrance to UC Berkeley's public public science center Tuesday morning.

Nadine Hairston was sliding down a whale sculpture near the Lawrence Hall of Science when she suddenly felt a sting. She looked down at her left leg to find a two-foot crossbow arrow sticking out of her flesh.

"A kid ran up to me and said Nadine was shot with an arrow, which, you know, I thought couldn't possibly be true," said Michael Whiteley, one of the adults chaperoning Nadine's elementary school class on their field trip to the science center.

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The leading assertion at the moment is that it likely came from one of the hills in the area after being released by a small-game hunter or a reckless hobbyist.

http://gawker.com/5992765/third+grader-struck-by-mystery-arrow-while-on-a-field-trip-to-uc-berkeley

Careless loons with weapons are not limited to guns.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. WTF???

Just how far can a crossbow shoot an arrow?

At any rate, that poor girl!

[Posteritatis]

5. A good one could have a range of a few hundred meters

Same sort of thing as a good bow - either can put something astonishingly far downrange, and it gets further still if fired from a hill (or, for some reason, up at an angle).

Like bows they'd have wildly varying designs each with its own level of power and accuracy, of course. Either in hunting would be relatively close-ranged, but anything that's tossing a projectile with lethal force will have to be able to toss it pretty far.

[mindwalker_i]

2. Damn, I guess she got the point

Whatever it was. And we think we can handle machine guns? Too bad we can ban idiots.

[Marie Marie]

3. I shot an arrow into the air

it fell to earth I knew not where.. Your last sentence says it all.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. It was probably the Nuge.

[krispos42]

6. Daryl from "The Walking Dead"? n/t

[Javaman]

7. two-foot crossbow arrow

aren't those actually called bolts?