Saturday, October 13, 2012

Negligent Owner of Wild West City Gets a Slap on the Wrist

NJ.com reports

Harris, a cowboy actor who was playing the role of frontier lawman Wyatt Earp, was shot in the forehead by a 17-year-old actor who loaded his .22-caliber handgun with live bullets instead of blanks during a dramatization at the theme park on July 7, 2006. 

The shooter used bullets that had been left in a lockerroom by another cowboy actor who brought two boxes of ammunition to the park. One had blanks and one had live rounds, which he had fired at a shooting range earlier in the day.

Today, Conforti sentenced Stabile, on behalf of Western World Inc., to one year probation and ordered the company to pay a $7,500 fine for unlawful possession of a handgun without a carry permit. The company pleaded guilty to the third-degree charge in April.
Does that sentence seem light to you? A man was severely injured, yet the responsible person gets only probation and a measly $7,500 fine?  What gives.

This isn't the first time we've seen reports of shenanigans at Wild West Shows.  What do you make of that?

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