[Twelearly]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Isn't a walker a pretty big gun ? I guess that she couldn't lift the gun so it was aimed against him - instead she shot the floor and the rickochet went up trough the leg into stomach.

Wonder how many years he'll get for stealing water, soap an electricity ? I considered the riccochet possibility. Possible.

How many years? I'm not sure but it couldn't have been worth getting shot for.

[attishina]

Burglary is not stealing, it is entering a residence with intent to commit ANY crime (give or take for any given jurisdiction):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

He more than likely will get actually convicted of trespassing I would imagine. It's standard to charge someone with the worst thing they could possibly be convicted of, and then let it be reduced in plea bargaining to a more reasonable charge (often to something less than they really committed).

The bullet could've struck a bone and then taken a turn, with smaller caliber bullets (as this almost certainly was) that would be reasonably likely.

[sbrthrds]

Maybe he was aiming a karate kick at her when she fired. That'd explain it.

[artofeyyy]

Originally posted by Wezil

How does a bullet fired at waist height(?) enter an upright person in the leg and finish in the stomach?

Theories? Maybe it got carried away by the bloodstream
and finally got stuck somewhere in the stomach.

[hieklyintinee]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
He was stealing her laundry soap! Quick, shoot that burglar again! Wasn't it cool that he didn't shoot her though?

[Indessasp]

The article reads perfectly fine with either definition of "walker".

[JesikaFclq]

This has all the makings of a classic Country Western song. Something like...

He had dirty underwear.
She was rockin' in her rockin' chair.
He saw her take a slug of gin,
And said, "I think I'll just sneak in
And wash my dirty undies...
Oh yeah, wash my dirty undies."

He found her store-bought washin' machine.
It looked like it could get his undies clean,
So he stripped off his underwear,
And stood there in the room quite bare,
But she through she heard a noise.
Oh, those nasty neighbor boys!

She shuffled to her dresser drawer.
And pulled out her new forty-four,
She got her metal walker
And became a nighttime stalker.
She headed for her laundry room
Down a hallway filled with deepest gloom.

[movlabs]

Originally posted by Japher
A .22 Caliber is known to to hit bone and then turn to travel along the bone. It most likely hit the femur and the traveled up and out the stomach. Rather common actually.

Also, it's a small cal and therefore a good choice for an old lady. SlowwHand.

I have another one for you.

[appletango]

{It was a joke!]

[Salliter]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
{It was a joke!] It's all good. It got Lul to agree with me.

[WelcomeMe]

It's obvious that the walker in the article isn't a gun, but a whole lot funnier if it was.

[mplawssix]

Originally posted by Wezil

How does a bullet fired at waist height(?) enter an upright person in the leg and finish in the stomach?

Theories? Is it possible the laundry room was upstairs, and he was higher up?

[joanasevilyboaz]

Did he leave any drops of blood in the old ladies home?

If yes one might argue he bought it.
He got the bullet and gave her some of his blood in exchange for it.

[Bejemoelemymn]

Originally posted by Dry
Some may argue he even took advantage of her senility to get away with the bullet... Ooooh...elder abuse

[SobiquYo]

If the leg was elevated (meaning the man was making a kicking motion towards the gun/grandmother) then I could easily see it going through his leg and hitting his lower abdomen. Also important is the grandmother's height (I'm guess she has osteoporosis like most women her age), if she was partially stooped over, and how tall the intruder was.