TheMightyGoat
04-15-2005, 07:21 PM
A while ago at one of the school assemblies, the teacher who had organized the event and was speaking at the podium mentioned he had heard from one of his students something about a "shooting car". This teacher also happened to be the guy in charge of the school paper, and he said that if the person in the audience was responsible for said car, he'd like to meet to discuss writing an article for the paper.
I met up with him a few days later in the Teacher's Lounge and told him I was the one responsible for the "shooting car". After the odd looks from other teachers dissipated, he was interested and asked me to write an article. I wrote one that night, and gave it to him, along with about 200 pictures I had taken of shooting that thing.
It's nothing fancy, I just thought it was neat that someone was interested enough to run an article like this in the shool paper. Here's the article and the two pictures they ran with it:
The Shootin' Car
It all started about a year and a half ago, when I was looking for a place to try out my new rifle, and a friend volunteered his field. After making our way up the road, through a cow pasture, over stones to cross a brook and into the woods to the back field, I spotted an old car that was very obviously past its prime.
"Hey, Sean (Fattycakes), think your dad would care if I shot that old car?"
"Well, maybe just a couple of times..."
Since then, we've inflicted well over 2,000 rounds of ammunition upon this car, not to mention numerous savage beatings and an occasional gasoline fire. It has become somewhat of a tradition for us to gather every couple of months and try to upstage our last display of destruction against the Shootin' Car, in hopes that it will one day be transformed into an unrecognizable pile of twisted steel. The car never did anything to me, and I have no particular grudge against it, but what better way to celebrate being American than to go out and tear something apart for personal entertainment?
All of the items involved with the Shootin' Car are owned and operated within the boundaries of the law, and all participants conduct themselves with an appropriate degree of responsibility.
This is the trunk, which as you will see in the next picture, was completely shot off.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/TheMightyGoat/Shooting017.jpg
The whole car (I uh... blurred out that Swastika before submitting the pictures. It was a joke).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/TheMightyGoat/Shooting041A.jpg
I met up with him a few days later in the Teacher's Lounge and told him I was the one responsible for the "shooting car". After the odd looks from other teachers dissipated, he was interested and asked me to write an article. I wrote one that night, and gave it to him, along with about 200 pictures I had taken of shooting that thing.
It's nothing fancy, I just thought it was neat that someone was interested enough to run an article like this in the shool paper. Here's the article and the two pictures they ran with it:
The Shootin' Car
It all started about a year and a half ago, when I was looking for a place to try out my new rifle, and a friend volunteered his field. After making our way up the road, through a cow pasture, over stones to cross a brook and into the woods to the back field, I spotted an old car that was very obviously past its prime.
"Hey, Sean (Fattycakes), think your dad would care if I shot that old car?"
"Well, maybe just a couple of times..."
Since then, we've inflicted well over 2,000 rounds of ammunition upon this car, not to mention numerous savage beatings and an occasional gasoline fire. It has become somewhat of a tradition for us to gather every couple of months and try to upstage our last display of destruction against the Shootin' Car, in hopes that it will one day be transformed into an unrecognizable pile of twisted steel. The car never did anything to me, and I have no particular grudge against it, but what better way to celebrate being American than to go out and tear something apart for personal entertainment?
All of the items involved with the Shootin' Car are owned and operated within the boundaries of the law, and all participants conduct themselves with an appropriate degree of responsibility.
This is the trunk, which as you will see in the next picture, was completely shot off.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/TheMightyGoat/Shooting017.jpg
The whole car (I uh... blurred out that Swastika before submitting the pictures. It was a joke).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/TheMightyGoat/Shooting041A.jpg