Knimrod
03-22-2006, 11:35 PM
Suspected sniper is man with pigeon-targeting pellet gun
March 22,2006
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PITTSBURGH - A sniper scare in Pittsburgh is over.
Police say a 9-1-1 caller who thought a man was on a downtown rooftop with a rifle was actually looking at a man with a pellet gun who was looking for pigeons.
Several downtown streets were cordoned off while police SWAT teams fanned out to search nearby buildings.
Even the mayor was on the scene in a bulletproof vest, while police chased down witness reports of sightings, and finally closed in on a building in the city's theater district.
At the end of a tense hour and 45 minutes, the man's supervisor explained to officers that the man sometimes brings his pellet gun to work with him, to shoot nuisance pigeons.
Link to story (http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=4668611&nav=0RbQ)
March 22,2006
http://www.migunowners.org/images/ap.gif
PITTSBURGH - A sniper scare in Pittsburgh is over.
Police say a 9-1-1 caller who thought a man was on a downtown rooftop with a rifle was actually looking at a man with a pellet gun who was looking for pigeons.
Several downtown streets were cordoned off while police SWAT teams fanned out to search nearby buildings.
Even the mayor was on the scene in a bulletproof vest, while police chased down witness reports of sightings, and finally closed in on a building in the city's theater district.
At the end of a tense hour and 45 minutes, the man's supervisor explained to officers that the man sometimes brings his pellet gun to work with him, to shoot nuisance pigeons.
Link to story (http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=4668611&nav=0RbQ)