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They Take the Fun Out of Everything

A woman called the sheriff on her neighbor in St. Charles Township, Ill., who was sticking a gun out his bathroom window and shooting. A Kane County deputy says the unidentified man, who is 80 years old, told him he was simply shooting off the icicles that were hanging from his roof, which was safe because he was pointing the gun, a .22 revolver, up. “He stated that if anybody was hit by the falling round, it would be just like getting hit with a piece of hail,” the deputy noted in his report. The deputy told him that was unsafe and illegal. “[He] advised that he didn’t know he couldn’t shoot out the window of his residence, and it won’t happen again,” the report concluded. The man was not arrested or cited. (RC/Kane County Chronicle) ...So now he only uses the gun for its original purpose: opening his beers.