Brian’s Been Shot at Three Times

You know, I don’t really go in for the bloggy memes very often–they just seem like tricks to generate content to me.

However, I did enjoy reading Brian’s recent ‘5 things you didn’t know about me’ post. Apparently he’s been shot at in anger three times:

I’ve had a gun fired at me in anger on three occasions:

1) By racist skinheads as I waited outside the Saskatoon Arena for a Metallica concert December 15, 1986. (Like Jeremy, I’ve seen Metallica twice, though not since 1989.)

2) By the raving drunk foreman of my treeplanting crew at the culmination of a riotous day-long bush party.

3) In Hermosillo, two young women and I walked past a group of drunken hoodlums that made some lewd remarks and we responded with derision. A few minutes later a shot was fired from across a vacant lot and it took us a few seconds to figure out what that whistling sound above our heads really was.

I had no idea he had such a sordid past. I trimmed the second one, but you can read the whole story over on this site.

I don’t know that I’ve even been in the vicinity of three guns being fired, never mind being the target. Let’s see…

1. At Camp Kawkawa when I was 12, when I won the second prize in riflery.
2. Visiting old family friends in the Yukon, where I blew the crap out of a small tree with a shotgun.
3. Nope, just the two times.

I’ve often thought I’d enjoy target shooting, and the odds are that I wouldn’t be terrible at it, giving all the hand-eye coordination practice I get via computer games.