rox
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I have never been up close to a gun going off, only hear them in the distance from the hunters. Today i am outside pruning the olive trees and there is this huge BOOM right on top of me. Then i could smell sulfur. Wow, somebody is shooting at me I thought.
I look around and i see the neighbor boy running away. I watch him run up the hillside headed home. I was looking for a gun, but he didn'thave a long gun so I figured he msut have a pistol. Since he ran away I wasn't in any imediate danger so I called the neighbor and said that the son of your tennants jsut tried to shoot me. I mean it was a real loud BOOM. My husband was at the store so i figued to wait for him to come home and we would go visit that family. While waiting for him to come home i found the shell, it was about 5 or 6 feet from where I was standing. But something was funny about it, it was a paper shell but had gunpowder in it. Well perhaps it is some kind of an air gun or something i thought. i know nothing about guns but i was sure happy to find that exploded shell. i now had proof that I was attacked.
When my husband came home we went to see the neighbors tenants. turns out it wasn't their son, turns out it was the son of the neighbor behind us. i was really shocked. I know that boy Luca, pretty well, I had even done a home made paper making activity with him shortly after we moved in. He is a very nice boy about 11 perhaps now 12 years old.
So we go see Luca and his parents and it wasn't a gun at all but some kind of a big firework. I ahve heard fireworks before and now think it was something like an M80. i may have the name M80 wrong but that is what we used to call them. They make jsut a very loud loud bang. Luca got in trouble his dad smacked him upside the head and i don't think Luca gets physically punished much, they are not those kinds of parents. I made him say "I'm sorry" and we also told him he is welcome to come back and play any time jsut don't bring any weapons or fireworks.
He and the neighbor girl were playing on ur property earlier in the morning. we didn't care, they weren't doing anything but running around.
I was very happy that he didn't have a gun, and put it down to stupidity that he would throw a firecracker at me, like I said it was only 5 ft away. geeze kids, what goes through their mnds sometimes?
I look around and i see the neighbor boy running away. I watch him run up the hillside headed home. I was looking for a gun, but he didn'thave a long gun so I figured he msut have a pistol. Since he ran away I wasn't in any imediate danger so I called the neighbor and said that the son of your tennants jsut tried to shoot me. I mean it was a real loud BOOM. My husband was at the store so i figued to wait for him to come home and we would go visit that family. While waiting for him to come home i found the shell, it was about 5 or 6 feet from where I was standing. But something was funny about it, it was a paper shell but had gunpowder in it. Well perhaps it is some kind of an air gun or something i thought. i know nothing about guns but i was sure happy to find that exploded shell. i now had proof that I was attacked.
When my husband came home we went to see the neighbors tenants. turns out it wasn't their son, turns out it was the son of the neighbor behind us. i was really shocked. I know that boy Luca, pretty well, I had even done a home made paper making activity with him shortly after we moved in. He is a very nice boy about 11 perhaps now 12 years old.
So we go see Luca and his parents and it wasn't a gun at all but some kind of a big firework. I ahve heard fireworks before and now think it was something like an M80. i may have the name M80 wrong but that is what we used to call them. They make jsut a very loud loud bang. Luca got in trouble his dad smacked him upside the head and i don't think Luca gets physically punished much, they are not those kinds of parents. I made him say "I'm sorry" and we also told him he is welcome to come back and play any time jsut don't bring any weapons or fireworks.
He and the neighbor girl were playing on ur property earlier in the morning. we didn't care, they weren't doing anything but running around.I was very happy that he didn't have a gun, and put it down to stupidity that he would throw a firecracker at me, like I said it was only 5 ft away. geeze kids, what goes through their mnds sometimes?
