Woman Shot in Foot While Checking Mail
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Posted: 4:57 PM Jun 25, 2010
Woman Shot in Foot While Checking Mail
Detectives say her 80-year-old neighbor fired two gun shots to get a dog off his property.
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LESAGE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A walk to the mailbox turned in to a pain in the foot for one local woman.

It happened around noon on Union Ridge Road in Lesage. Mary Hardesty was walking to check her mail and heard a gun shot. Hardesty said she was worried when she heard the first shot, but it only got worse after that.

“I wasn’t sure, I thought a rock had hit my leg, but then it started to hurt real bad,” said Hardesty

Detectives say her 80-year-old neighbor fired two gun shots to get a dog off his property.
The man says that's what the neighbor told him to do in order to scare the dog away, but one of his bullets hit his neighbors daughter in the foot.

“He accidentally shot me in the foot and it could have been that little boy that was just out here because he wanted to go down with me but I told him no. It could have been my little girl because she likes to check the mail, one of them could have got shot," Hardesty said.

Ms. Hardesty refused any medical attention. The bullet didn’t actually penetrate her skin, but was caught between her shoe and her foot.

Hardesty says she doesn't want anything bad to happen to her neighbor but wants him to learn his lesson.

The man was not arrested but detectives say he will be summonsed to court.

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Posted by: Anonymous on Jun 29, 2010 at 02:39 PM

Anonymous, such a crime ravaged city where frequent home invasions occur? I'd like to know which city that is, because according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, no city in the USA has existed with that problem in the history of the FBI (the place that tracks ALL crime in the US). And I doubt that lady even exists outside of your mind, or Lifetime TV. Did she lock her doors/windows, have adequate outdoor lighting, did her/someone she knew know the criminal? what reasons in the crime report did the intruder give for his actions? And all these responders to my posts talk about people being 'trained' to use their firearms for bodily defense: this lady missed, so much so that the intruder fled. How did police catch him? Did she Call 911, which some of you stated puts her in "one of the "Call 911 and die" crowd"? This seems like a work of fiction designed to support your point. Did no one tell you to stop telling tall tales? In the meantime, I'll be sitting in my nice safe house.
Posted by: jd on Jun 29, 2010 at 01:49 AM

i live right beside this man and i was told the same thing by the owner of the dog as he was. I shot at it before too. The plain fact is the dog bites I know this for a fact it tried to bite me and my 8 year old brother i called the pound they did nothing.I also to the owner and she denied it. We dont know if that dog is going to bite one of the so called victim she was behind bushes I like to know why she was behind them which wer not on her mothers property but my gmas
Posted by: Anonymous on Jun 29, 2010 at 12:41 AM

@RationalityCalling...Sometimes trouble comes looking for you even if you do not "invite" it. I used to live in a large city where home invasions were a common occurrence. One of my neighbors, woke up with a man breaking into her house. Thankfully she kept a gun on her nightstand that she was able to grab while the man was entering her bedroom. Had she not had a gun, she may have been raped or killed. Instead she shot the man and the man fled out of the house. He was later on arrested. There are many incidents where the people were lucky to have had a gun. I believe in keeping a good dog and a gun in my house.
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