Associated Press
SAN DIEGO -- San Diego police say a 16-year-old boy throwing rocks at a sport utility vehicle was struck by a crossbow arrow fired by a passenger.
Police say the shirtless boy and a friend were throwing rocks at a black Toyota RAV4 in the Linda Vista neighborhood Monday afternoon when a passenger fired a crossbow out the window.
The boy was shot in the right side and was taken to a hospital. The San Diego Union-Tribune says his injuries are not life-threatening.
His name wasn't released.
Nobody has been arrested.
CINCINNATI -- A woman was critically injured over the weekend when a fist-sized rock came through an open car window and struck her in the forehead.
Cincinnati police said at least 10 other cars have been targeted by vandals along Columbia Parkway, but no arrests have been made.
Christa Roenser said she and her friend, Joyce Baresel, caught a taxicab Sunday around 1 a.m. and were headed home when the incident occurred.
"I heard, like, a loud noise, and thought it was just a rock hitting the windshield," Roenser said.
She looked at her friend and discovered it was much worse.
"She had her head down," Roenser said. "Her head was in her hands, and that's when I saw we were both covered in blood."
The 23-year-old Baresel suffered a major skull fracture and brain damage, her aunt said, and she will have permanent nerve damage.
"Our goal is hope that someone out there will come forward and the people who did this will realize practical jokes change someone's life forever," said Joyce Manzo.
Baresel was moved Wednesday from the intensive care unit at University Hospital, but she remains in critical condition.
Rocks fling out from under truck wheels all the time and hit windshields. If you can't even drive and not 'lose control' when an effing rock hits the side of your car, you should not be driving.
Would you agree with being shot by an arrow if it was your son?
Yes throwing rocks is WRONG, and people have certainly died when others have dropped bricks, blocks, large rocks off of an overpass. That's not what this kid was doing.
You people have lost your minds. OH and while we're at it, you are probably the same asinine people who call the Israeli's cowards and killers for shooting at Palestinians throwing rocks, right? phffft
The fact that he was not killed by the crossbow was a blessing but it also got the point across very succintly, pun intended. I think he got exactly what he deserved. Bet he doesn't do that again.
Being stupid is not a crime but the results can be, and were in this case, painful.
I've read a few news articles about people who have been killed after someone threw a rock onto their vehicles from overpasses of the side of a road. One woman suffered a brick through her windshield as she drove, and she crashed into a bridge pylon, which proved fatal to her.
From this story, though, it sounds like the vehicle was stationary. How long was the boy throwing rocks? Do you open the door and ask him to stop, risking getting hit in the process? Would you like to be hit in the head by a rock?
"Hey man, nice shot!"