The Snake In The Tree, New Version

NOBLE, Oklahoma (AP) -- A police officer shooting at a snake in a tree killed a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond.

Jack Tracy was fishing with his grandson Austin Haley when a bullet fired by the police officer "apparently" struck the boy in the head.

Tracy thought someone must be trying to kill him and his grandson, so he put the child on the back of a 4-wheeler and drove to his daughter's house about 200 yards away.

"Then two officers came out of the brush over there," he told The Oklahoman. "They didn't tell us they were the ones who had been shooting or that they had shot him. They didn't admit a doggone thing."

Police officials have refused to identify the officer involved but said the person had been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Tracy has little doubt. Said he:

I'm not saying the cop shot him on purpose," he said. "But let me tell you -- if I had a kid and put him in this car and didn't put him in a car seat and he got killed on the way to town, they'd charge me with murder ... and what this cop did is a lot worse than that.

This cop will walk... He(or she) is a part of the armed mob that serves at the pleasure of the government, and anyway, all he(or she) did was kill some expendable Okie kid.

President Bush may get a bit angry since he wants kids like that to grow up to be an "Army Of One", so he can send them to Iraq and maybe Iran to get killed with honor, thus allowing the president to "do tears" on camera.

Killing our kids is an OK thing if your the president, but a cop killing a kid is a bit out of line. It's an embarrassment for those in power, and should be generally avoided if possible.

But a snake in a tree? Must have been the Devil himself!

To hell with the consequences, blast away!

PS
"paid administrative leave" is in reality a vacation paid for by the taxpayers... including the family of this dead boy.