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

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

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.

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

"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.

Teachers immediately rushed Nadine to a nearby hospital, where it was happily determined that the arrow caused no serious damage to her leg.

"I was scared when I got the call but when I got [to the hospital] I saw she was OK," said Nadine's mom Alicia, who added that the little girl was in "super spirits."

Though she was kept in the hospital overnight for observation, Nadine is already back on her feet (so to speak), and was expected to return to class today.

"It's like a dream and weird at the same time," she told ABC News. "Because you think you're dreaming when you see an arrow and it's also weird because it usually never happens."

Meanwhile, police are still searching for the source of the arrow.

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.

wow you are really going okaydo with the baiting headline as this has nothing to do with CMS... but anyway that is f'ed up. I think I read somewhere else that residents in the area have seen a deer with a arrow in it running around in the not too distant past.

I wonder if the police can do some facebook scouring and find out if anyone in the area has post regarding archery or hunting via bow and arrow.

This is why you don't fire guns, slingshots, or arrows in the air. They do land somewhere far away.

GranadaHillsBear;842106931 said:

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This is why you don't fire guns, slingshots, or arrows in the air. They do land somewhere far away.

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Mythbusters did it! Depending on the launch angle, the projectile may be given a ballistic trajectory and a potentially fatal velocity when it arrives, or a it may simply fall to earth at relatively benign terminal velocity. Surprisingly, the latter is quite common.

But yeah, don't fire projectiles randomly in the air.

BancroftSteps;842106942 said:

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Mythbusters did it! Depending on the launch angle, the projectile may be given a ballistic trajectory and a potentially fatal velocity when it arrives, or a it may simply fall to earth at relatively benign terminal velocity. Surprisingly, the latter is quite common.

But yeah, don't fire projectiles randomly in the air.

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i doubt the squirrel that he just missed thought it was random

Panoramic really? There are more Bear fans on the hill than you think. Lower down are where the haters are.

Pick up the usual suspects in Medieval Studies

GB54;842107055 said:

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Pick up the usual suspects in Medieval Studies

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And book'em Cromwell.

Isn't the Tilden Park archery range a mere stone's throw (or arrow shot) from the Lawrence Hall?