Anyone ever get shot at a baseball game before?

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Reggie Jackson did almost shoot the Queen of England at an Angels-Mariners game that one time….

Love it

Great scene from an entertaining movie.

And that movie would never be made today.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Reggie Jackson did almost shoot the Queen of England at an Angels-Mariners game that one time….

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Love it

Great scene from an entertaining movie.

And that movie would never be made today.

A hero saved the day, and she lived another 30 years!

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[bk400]

I used to ride the subway to Mets and, to a far lesser extent, Yankees games. Did that more recently and, regrettably, I think you could pretty easily find a way to get shot on one of trains going home after a night game. It doesn't count as being shot at the game itself, but perhaps close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades.

[G1911]

Apparently, one of the 'victims' is the individual who brought the gun. It was an accidental discharge (I believe the media is simply using the wrong term; the odds there was a truly accidental discharge - a mechanical failure of the gun - is near zero, it's almost certainly a negligent discharge by an idiot) and they got it past security by hiding it in their obese fat folds.

If true I still don't really understand how one can be so obese that the large amount of steel in the slide and barrel plus the frame supporting pieces and ammunition do not trigger the detector. If I made $15 an hour to wand people I wouldn't want to explore their fat folds either, I guess.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...rt/ar-AA1fX3W2

[Peter_Spaeth]

Wasn't that Alec Baldwin's defense?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Wasn't that Alec Baldwin's defense?

His really stupid and fundamentally mechanically wrong defense is somehow better than defending this as an AD*. It is, technically, possible to fire an old west single action army revolver if you hit the muzzle or the hammer really, really hard and it is a model built to the original spec instead of the updated spec that has a bar that stops the hammer without a trigger press. It's pretty much impossible for any handgun in any kind of common use today to discharge without a trigger pull, even if one of the parts breaks.

That the shooter was so stupid that they were using their fat as a holster should be enough to tell us a negligent discharge is much more likely even if this was a mechanical danger




*unless it's a Sig, ha ha