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Squawk!
One afternoon when I was 18 or so I was round at my friend's house. He had recently bought a bad-ass air rifle off the internet and it had arrived that morning. It wasn't long before we became quite apt at shooting tin cans off the fence and started looking round for more challenging targets.

I'd never shot a bird- or any animal for that matter- before, but the pigeon sitting on the neighbour's chimney 50 yards away proved just too tempting. Got it in one.

A little later I was walking home feeling rather guilty about what I had just done, trying to rationalise it in my head, etc, when all of a sudden SMACK!! Someone shot me in the back of the head with a paintball gun... at close range... from a car window. The pain was immense! It was red paint too so naturally I thought this was blood at first and started to panic; I think I passed out for a bit. The pain eventually subsided and I soon realised what had happened but there is no doubt in my mind that this totally unrelated attack was Instant Karma.

I will never ever shoot an animal, in any capacity, again.
(Thu 21st Feb 2008, 15:11, More)