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Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby DeanC on Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:56 pm

Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

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A Maplewood man found out the hard way that when it comes to getting rid of vermin, a gun probably is not the best choice -- particularly when the critter is in your house.

By the time he was done shooting, a bat was wounded and an adjoining vacant townhouse suffered three bullet holes in its freshly painted walls, a dent in a metal closet door and a dent in the stove, according to charges filed Friday in Ramsey County District Court.

As a result, Cedric R. Newton, 52, has been charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, a felony. He will make his first court appearance Sept. 20.

The charges said Newton used a .38-caliber revolver to get rid of the bat last month,

A Maplewood police officer was sent to the 2300 block of Loudin Lane on July 25 to speak with the property manager, who showed the officer the damage, the complaint said.

When police talked to Newton, he said that about midnight on July 24, a bat had come into his home and "attacked" his wife, the complaint said. Newton said he got his gun and fired several times at the bat, eventually wounding it.

"Newton told police that he had the presence of mind to have his wife go upstairs while he shot at the bat, but apparently gave no consideration to the surrounding townhomes," the complaint said.

No one answered the phone Monday afternoon at the Newton home.

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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby jgalt on Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:59 pm

As someone who had bats in the previous house in which he lived, all I can say is...

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

...wait, I've got to catch my breath...

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Postby xd9 on Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:25 pm

"Newton told police that he had the presence of mind to have his wife go upstairs while he shot at the bat"


Ok, was the bat flying in the air and did he fire UP at it to hit it :?: Might not a round pentrate the floor and hit his wife? Hmmmm.

Unless this was a wingless bat. ;) Or was it a old bat?

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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby Spike on Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:28 pm

Reminds me of a post in another forum where a guy used a shotgun to kill a bat in his house. He was all butt hurt when people ripped on him for doing it.

I guess if you're going to go after a bat in your house with a firearm, a shotgun is a better choice than a .38. I'm not saying a good choice, but better than a handgun.

EDIT: Found the thread (with pictures): http://www.xdtalk.com/forums/shotgun-ta ... t-0-a.html

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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby DeanC on Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:35 pm

LMFAO!!!!

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Postby diskdoctr on Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:02 pm

Yet another one that needs to be removed from the gene pool
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby bensdad on Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:55 pm

How could anyone NOT have an old tennis racket somewhere in the house? Or a snowshoe. Or a blanket. Or a butterfly net. Or a folded-up magazine. Or a spatula. Or a pool cue. Or a DVD case. Or a... Jeez, anything but a gun. Heck, just put on some leather gloves and grab it.
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby thunderoussilence on Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:05 pm

Bats eat bugs they are good pests to have, guess he was tryin to pop a cap cuz it attacked his wife. :gun: :gun:
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby FJ540 on Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:22 pm

I wouldn't even use a pellet gun in the house unless the critter was doing more damage than the hole a miss would leave.

DUMB.

Hell, airsoft would probably stun or wound it enough to get it out and only marginally dent the sheetrock in the process.
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby WWJD on Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:22 am

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Illegal to discharge a firearm.............which includes a BB gun
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Postby justaguy on Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:12 am

I have shot them with pellet guns. I didn't miss but I wasn't planning on it going all the way through the bat and the blind and breaking the window behind it. Tennis rackets and gloves are the quickest way.
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby bensdad on Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:18 am

justaguy wrote:I have shot them with pellet guns. I didn't miss but I wasn't planning on it going all the way through the bat and the blind and breaking the window behind it. Tennis rackets and gloves are the quickest way.

Good point, justarighttoolforthejobguy! I have three pellet guns. None would stop anywhere inside a bat - unless it was a baseball bat.
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby DeanC on Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:32 am

I had a bat in my house. I cornered it in the bathroom. Shut the door, put on some leather workgloves and waited for it to land. I gently grabbed it and took it outside and let it go. Then I closed the fireplace flue so it wouldn't get back in.

Pretty simple.

Bats eat a ton of bugs and they have real tough time up here in the North country. Most of them have to migrate back South in the winter.

They don't attack people. They fly in an erratic pattern so it freaks people out, but they are quite good at avoiding things.
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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby WWJD on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:03 pm

Spike wrote:Reminds me of a post in another forum where a guy used a shotgun to kill a bat in his house. He was all butt hurt when people ripped on him for doing it.

I guess if you're going to go after a bat in your house with a firearm, a shotgun is a better choice than a .38. I'm not saying a good choice, but better than a handgun.

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Re: Charges: Maplewood man used gun to oust bat from home

Postby FJ540 on Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:57 pm

I also welcome bats, but not in my house.

We tried putting up a bat house that the local hippy tree huggers made (got it free), but as most things hippy tree huggers do, they failed to understand the criteria of a properly executed bat house and the squirrels have since inhabited it as it's unfit for bats.
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