Bizarre incident with dog attack

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Adams,Massachusetts
A man has killed another man with a crossbow while trying to save him from an attacking dog,the name of the victim is being witheld pending notification of the next of kin.

The police responded to an apartment on Bellevue Av. where they shot two aggressive dogs and found a man dead with a fatal crossbow injury.

It is believed that a neighbor heard the commotion and called police,then made entry to the apartment,then got a crossbow and shot at the dogs,missing the dogs and killing his neighbor.

It is believed by police that the death was accidental and the neighbor is cooperating with police.

iberkshires.com or masslive.com

What a bad aim!

Sounds like something out of Pink Panther.

I think the whole Hoosac valley is perplexed about this one.This will become some kind of bizarre local legend,if you want to even call it that.

Having tried to draw a bow and place an arrow anywhere near the target, I can see how someone would miss. Or people move at the last minute.

Regular bow or crossbow? Two different things.

Crossbow's are popular for hunting in Massachusetts because many places are to urban to fire a gun.

Do you mean a longbow, a recurve bow, a compound bow or a crossbow? I don't know what a regular bow is.

Answer: yes

Husband is an archer.

a crossbow was used in this incident,this story has now made the national news it's on CNN now.

I think by regular now he meant compound bow,long bow's are antiques for the most part.

The Berkshire county DA will not press charges in this case.

He not asking about the fine distinctions between types of long bows (recurved, laminated, etc) but about the big obvious categories between long bows, and cross bows.

Cross bows are so called because they look like a Christian cross: the machinery that does the actual firing forms the long part of the cross, and the small bow part forms the short part of the cross.

There are regular bows. They come in varieties (ancient and modern). But they are all called "long bows". Those are the bows that the person picks up the actual bow, and places the arrow on the string and manually pulls back the string while aiming at the target (like Robin Hood, or like an Apache warrior of the old west, or like a modern Olympic archer).

Crossbows look like a small version of the above thing mounted onto the chassis of a shot gun. The person cranks a crank and the crank pulls back the string with gears an pulleys. You put the arrow on the string. Then pick up the whole thing and aim it much like you would aim a rifle or a shot gun, and then...you PULL A TRIGGER, and the trigger realeases the string, and fires the bow. Crossbows were invented in the middle ages in China and Europe, are used today in hunting, but they are SO damned accurate that they are outlawed for hunting in some places. Long bows go back to the stone age. Only long bows are used in archery competitions today like in the Olympics. Never crossbows as far as I know.

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Crossbows are supposed to be extremely accurate.

But if you're aiming at a dog while the dog has it jaws on a person's leg, and is trying to wrestle the person to the ground, and the two are rolling around...tragedy might well result even if you were expert shot I suppose.

The neighbor is lucky our district has a compassionate DA,and it also helped that the police saw how vicious the dogs were.

Yeah. Hollywood relies on that: scenes in which the good guy is trying to save an innocent person being attacked by the bad guy by shooting the bad guy, but the innocent person and the bad guy keep changing places in the crosshairs of the good guy's gun while they fight...thus keeping us moviegoers on the edge of our seats. But I am sure that that kinda thing is not just confined to the silver screen, and can happen IRL.

It is Hollywood at this point,this story from the tiny Berkshire town of Adams has made CNN and USA Today.It will live on as a local legend for the ages.

I am not exactly sure where Bellevue St is in Adams but it's likely off rte.8 somewhere.
Who knows what happened in that room with no witnesses,maybe something like the movie scenerio you talk about.We don't know really when he chose to take the shot.He could have moved closer to the dogs where he was guaranteed to hit the dogs.But for the neighbors sake,we have an understanding DA in our district.You are right this is something right out of the movies except things went terribly wrong.

And yet another attempt by blazingstar to express some humor. I'm not sure I've ever missed mark this badly before.