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Lake City Paintballer Faces Charges

Posted by DFO
June 29, 2011 3:50 p.m.  •  4 comments

Coeur d'Alene police arrested a 21-year-old man for shooting a paintball gun at cars passing on I-90.Investigators say Samuel Whitehead was spotted on a roof in the 1900 block of North Ninth Street allegedly shooting a paintball gun.After getting a 911 call, police responded and Whitehead turned the paintball gun on officers/KXLY. More here.

Armed and Dangerous

Posted by Cindy
May 22, 2009 9:35 a.m.  •  8 comments

I’m not a morning person. My kids should know this by now. Yet earlier, my 17-year-old son stood over my somnolent form and gave me detailed instructions about a gym bag filled with paintball guns and ammo. “I put them in your… Meet me in front of the …. And whatever you do don’t let…. get too hot…the CO2 tanks will explode.”

Explode. What? Huh? I removed my pillow from over my face and struggled to a sitting position, but he was gone.

Any of you folks paintball? Am I in danger of being shot by exploding paint when I run my errands this afternoon?

I hate mornings.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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