Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Big Brother Watching - No more shooting arrows in your back yard


Minnesota - It's a sign of the times. Bows and arrows, once the quintessential amusement of kids, increasingly are being banned in suburban back yards. Lewis Anderson looked out the window of his Roseville home this spring and spotted a couple of teenage boys shooting arrows into a bale of hay next door. Anderson's blood pressure soared: His wife and young son had just been playing nearby.
The boys weren't using "some toy archery kit," he said, but fast, compound bows. Roseville recently became one of a growing number of suburbs to ban bows and arrows from back yards. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Gurney's Seed and Nursery