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This Is The Face of an Arizona Man Arrested For Trying To Shoot The Moon With His Gun

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AZ – A 39-year-old Prescott Valley man accused of firing several gunshots Friday night said he was trying to shoot the moon. Prescott Valley police responded to a home in the 4400 block of Preston Drive after a woman reported that her boyfriend had fired several shots from a handgun and was still armed. The woman and her teenage son were in the home when the shots were fired. They told police that Cameron Frank Read was talking about seeing Halley’s Comet and shortly after that he fired a round out of the window. The victims said they heard several more shots as they fled the residence. They were not injured. Officers began talking with Read, who refused to come out of the home and reportedly caused damage to the residence. He eventually exited the home but was confrontational with the officers and resisted arrested, according to Prescott Valley Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brandon Bonney. Officers took him into custody by force. Bonney said Read admitted to firing the weapon multiple times and trying to shoot the moon. He told officers that he was not trying to harm anyone. Bonney said Read also admitted to smoking marijuana before the incident. Read was booked into the Yavapai County Jail for one count of unlawful discharge of a firearm, one count of resisting arrest, two counts of disorderly conduct and two counts of endangerment, all felony charges. He also faces misdemeanor criminal damage.

 
I feel bad for him because he didn’t do anything that we all haven’t wanted to do before. How far up can a bullet go before it comes down? Can you literally shoot the moon? The article suspiciously left out that little detail- was he successful in shooting the moon, or was he not? I’m going to assume he did because otherwise it would be awfully strange for them to arrest him. Because obviously you can’t just lazy daisy pump bullets into the moon’s grill like that, we kinda need that thing. You kill the moon, you kill everyone. It’s science/a Rob Thomas song, something about gravity and the ocean under the moon and the same as the emotion that I get from you.

 
PS: He looks kinda like Gheorghe Muresan.

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