'It was bizarre,' says disabled vet shot while guarding sea turtle nest

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Pannaman said he saw McAuliffe take a swing at Young, 64. "Then he started coming at me," said Pannaman, a retired salesman from Manhattan who is classified as fully disabled and walks with a cane. "That's when I pulled a handgun from the pocket of my shorts."

Pannaman said he did not point the gun — a .32 caliber Kel-Tec pistol — directly at his assailant, but turned so the man could see it. "He stopped," said Pannaman. "I thought I had diffused the situation."

But seconds after Pannaman put the gun back in his pocket, McAuliffe "lunged at me, grabbed me and threw me down onto the sand," he said.

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When McAuliffe got hold of the pistol, he stood up, Pannaman said, and declared, "I'm going to shoot you with your flare gun."

"Sir," Pannaman said, "it's not a flare gun. It's a real gun."





http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-turtle-nest-shooting-folo-20150719-story.html

[Suich]

1. That's nuts!

"But really, monitoring sea turtle nests should not be a life-threatening experience."

No kidding!