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by USFemail-retired from Sullivan, MO

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A LETTER CARRIER SHOT!!
Aug 20, 2007 | 6:08 PM
Category: News
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I just saw on the 6 pm news that a veteran letter carrier was shot while on his route! They say it may have been from a 14 yr. old kid with a BB gun! Stuff like that always scared me....esp. being shot by a real gun.  I had a fairly quiet route, but you never know. 
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derotts3 read my blog view my photos
Aug 20, 2007 | 6:25 PM

just what in the heck is going on? don't these kids think - the parents should be held responsible and why wasn't this knucklehead in school?
USFemail-retired read my blog view my photos
Aug 20, 2007 | 6:38 PM

Exactly! Kids have no respect any more at all, and the parents don't seem to care. Now turn it around and the parents of this kid would be all over the mailman!
mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Aug 20, 2007 | 7:07 PM

I remember a story a lot of years ago about a lady chasing the mailman down the street shooting at him because her unemployment check didn't come in the mail.....
USFemail-retired read my blog view my photos
Aug 20, 2007 | 7:58 PM

OK Mr. Wild.....that didn't help! I was always afraid to deliver the certifieds that nobody ever wanted. It's a good job, but it's a scary job. One time when I got back to my van after carrying a loop, I found it COVERED in green silly string. Not dangerous, but not nice either. I've had people punch it as I went by. This one time when I was driving one of the little jeeps, I was at a row of rural boxes, and this teenager came barreling right at me and as he got to the front of the jeep, he jumped off the bike and slung it under my right front tire! He stood there glaring at me as if he were daring me to run over it. His mother came out of the trailer and started cussing at him, and he finally moved it. I WAS scared that time!
bug1 read my blog
Aug 20, 2007 | 9:03 PM

My father was a mail carrier for over 20 years and the only mishap was falling off the porch steps when it was icy. what a shame- does this mean that all mail carriers will have to carry a weapon to protect themsleves??!! another senseless act.
USFemail-retired read my blog view my photos
Aug 20, 2007 | 9:07 PM

Are you kidding! They won't even let us carry regular pepper spray. That crap we carried was a joke! The cops couldn't even believe we weren't allowed pepper spray.They told the postmaster we were gonna get hurt if we didn't carry it, but they said it wasn't allowed. We weren't even supposed to have pocket knives.....nothing that could be considered a weapon!
jeanette read my blog view my photos
Aug 21, 2007 | 7:02 AM

I heard this morning it was a bb gun and he has a hearing at juvy this morning.He is at home not in juvy.But hey he aimed it didn't he.That could of turn bad quickly.
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I am a retired letter carrier with the Postal Service. I live in the country with my husband, who is my best friend. We met doing country dancing and did a lot of it. I have three children...1 daughter and 2 sons. We are now the proud grandparents of a beautiful baby girl! I am a country girl thru and thru, and love nothing better than living out here in the middle of our woods! I love Fox 2 in the morning and feel lacking if I don't get to see it. You guys crack me up!! Love you all!

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