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DEL.ICIO.USThey shoot Easter eggs, don’t they?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett Sheriff’s Department snipers are giving new meaning to hunting Easter eggs. They’re shooting them. On Friday, Cpl. Jeff Lavender, nailed three pink eggs with a Remington .308 from 300 yards across open water. Last we checked, Lavender was leading that event at the Gastonia, N.C., Police Department’s first annual Police Sniper Team Competition. The competition ended Saturday, but we don’t know the results yet. Four members of the Gwinnett Sheriff’s Deparment Rapid Response Team competed with 14 other law enforcement agencies and military units from the Southeast and the Caribbean. They include the Special Anti-Crime Unit of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Marine sniper instructors from Camp Lejeune, N.C. “They’re doing real well so far,” Gwinnett Sheriff’s Department Major Carl Sims, the team’s commander and alternate, said Friday. The team includes Cpl. Scott Gresham and Deputy Michael Wayne. The Gwinnett team was shooting for $30,000 in prizes. Among them: a two-year lease on a Ford F-50 truck, firearms, fitness products and knives. The competition events included nailing the cut-out hijacker in a crowded bus of paper school children, and running and shooting through an obstacle course, Sims said. In the egg event, Lavender had to wade across a shallow lake to a small island and shoot the eggs.
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By Easter bunnee
April 9, 2007 9:25 PM | Link to this
This was hilarious. Ya just can’t make this stuff up. You’re headline made me laugh out loud, Mr. Smith. Good work!