Ok, made up the teeth part, she used a gun: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2005/10/8yearold_girl_s.html


8-Year-Old Girl Shoots Bear

Here's one that somehow wound up inside the Metro section: An 8-year-old girl bagged the first bear of the bear-hunting season in Maryland. Who says kids today only want to go to the mall? Some want to hunt! And not just with make-believe guns! This isn't some game where you take a stick and run around going "Pow! Pow!" No, Sierra Stiles, all of 8 years old and 54 inches tall, got up at 4:58 a.m. Monday in the high-country town of Kitzmiller, Md., and marched out into a field on her family farm -- loaded for bear.

She had a permit to kill a bear, won by lottery. There are some cynics who think that a child of 8 shouldn't be wandering around in the pre-dawn darkness with a loaded rifle, and indeed, there are kids in my neighborhood who I wouldn't trust with anything more lethal than a container of Gogurt, but Sierra passed some kind of safety test (multiple choice?), scoring a 98.

Right about dawn, as she and her father and granduncle waited in a cold rain, the granduncle saw a dark shadow in the distance. He wasn't sure what it was. Perhaps it was Karl Rove fleeing from authorities. [Obligatory Rove reference.] Somehow they concluded that it was probably a bear, and thus was fair game.

Nelson Hernandez writes:

Sierra stood behind a tree, waiting until the bear was about 50 yards away, she said. Then she took careful aim and squeezed the trigger. The bullet struck the bear behind the shoulder. Unfazed by the rifle's light recoil, she said, she ejected the casing, reloaded and fired another round. It hit. The bear ran about 150 feet before collapsing."I was really, really, really happy," Sierra exclaimed. "They won't eat now. They won't eat a thing."

The berries in the mountain pastures are safe now. [Obligatory sarcastic city-boy commentary.]

The truth is, children are capable of much more than we give them credit for. Why not put them into actual combat? We are not meeting our recruitment goals. The reserves and the National Guard are tapped out. Hello, Mr. President: Time to send in the kids!

One line in the story -- "Her father remembers carrying her out to hunt raccoon with him when she was 1 month old" -- makes the reader wonder if these folks are the most safety conscious people on the planet. Did he let the newborn pull the trigger? Or use her as, you know, bait?


Comments are the author's, not mine.

Good for her.

The author is a ****ing moron.

Myself, I realized around age eight that I was smarter than most adults. Passing a safety test for handling a firearm would have been simple.

At 50 yards, at 'right about dawn' you can see well enough to determine that creeping shadow is a bear...or at worst a roaming cow.

Personally, I don't believe in hunting animals for sport, or even for food if you don't need to hunt for food, but who am I to tell people not to hunt an animal if its not in danger of becoming endangered.

I thought his article was funny, especially the Karl Rove remark.

I don't care for the idea of hunting for sport either but I applaud people who hunt for food. If you eat meat you are killing animals whether you are doing it directly or by creating an economic demand for it. In the spectrum of ways an animal can die in the wild, being shot by a hunter is one of the least horrific. Getting old and starving or being ripped apart by opportunistic predators has got to be a lot more brutal and drawn out than getting popped by a 30-06. With that said, I think an 8 year old would need some very, very careful supervision if they are going to be allowed to handle a hunting rifle. Kids that age are not terribly coordinated and hunting rifles aren't designed for people that size.

My favorite comment was: "Did he let the newborn pull the trigger? Or use her as, you know, bait?"

"Myself, I realized around age eight that I was smarter than most adults."

Aidon you realize that if you asked 100 8 year olds if they think they're smarter than most adults about 98 would say yes. And if you asked those same 100 people 15 years later if they think that at age 8 they were smarter than most adults, probably 98 would say no...

Shoot, if you ask, 98% of adults they'll all say they think they're smarter than most other people. And better drivers.

But Aidon, if you were smarter... you've blown it now. (http://www.hmnews.org/article2720.html)

And then they question as to why a 15 year old can't refuse to get peed on or molested by a freak on a mini-Disney world. :p

"Myself, I realized around age eight that I was smarter than most adults."

Aidon you realize that if you asked 100 8 year olds if they think they're smarter than most adults about 98 would say yes. And if you asked those same 100 people 15 years later if they think that at age 8 they were smarter than most adults, probably 98 would say no...

Except that at 8, I was smarter than most of the adults around me, for real. Objectively speaking. I drove the ****** psychobabblers nuts.

8yr old killing a bear with her teeth sounds very much like an Orbit commercial.

Shoot, if you ask, 98% of adults they'll all say they think they're smarter than most other people. And better drivers.

But Aidon, if you were smarter... you've blown it now. (http://www.hmnews.org/article2720.html)

I'm not an alcoholic. No matter how much AA says denial is the first sign =P

The study seems to bear a tenuous linkage between smoking and IQ loss, at best.

I rather suspect if you had run the identical study, only replacing alcoholism with realityshowviewism you would have had an identical study =D

And then they question as to why a 15 year old can't refuse to get peed on or molested by a freak on a mini-Disney world. :p

...I don't think I want to know what left field you pulled that comment out of Nim =P

8yr old killing a bear with her teeth sounds very much like an Orbit commercial.

lol =)

Except that at 8, I was smarter than most of the adults around me, for real. Objectively speaking. I drove the ****** psychobabblers nuts.You were in therapy as a child? (that could explain a lot .... )


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Yeah...they had to figure out why I knew basic algebra in 4th grade but couldn't finish a 100 problem timed test of long division.