Township Man Allegedly Shot at Pumpkin
Christopher Green, 30, of 2235 Koehler Drive, Lower Saucon Township, faces charges after allegedly firing at a gourd Wednesday.
A Lower Saucon Township man was jailed Thursday morning after he allegedly got drunk and started shooting at a pumpkin.
Township police say Christopher Green, 30, of 2235 Koehler Drive, Apt. 1, fired shots from a .22 caliber handgun at a pumpkin across the street from his home.
According to court records, Green's landlord told police he had heard shooting late Wednesday night, and found Green behind the property. Police say Green had been drinking, and admitted he was "just shooting a pumpkin." His 5-year-old son was sleeping inside the apartment during the shooting.
Green is charged with reckless endangerment, possession of an instrument of crime, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
He was arraigned early Thursday morning before on-duty District Judge Daniel Corpora in Easton, and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Andrew Wilt
9:07 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
If he had run across the street and stabbed the pumpkin repeatedly with a steak knife, would he have been charged with possession of an instrument of crime?
Arthur Joel Katz
9:35 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Wow, Andy, did you think the man did a good thing and wasn't the gun the instrument of the crime? And if he had stabbed the pumpkin with a knife, wouldn't that have been an instrument of crime? Nice to see you standing up for gun maniacs who fire their guns when they are drunk.
Andrew Wilt
9:48 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Joel - I'm not sure why you believe I am standing up for Christopher Green, I am not. I would like to know if he would have been charged with possession of an instrument of crime had he stabbed the pumpkin instead of shooting it.
Rob Heckman
10:06 am on Saturday, November 17, 2012
He would not have been endangering anyone else with a knife, but firing a gun toward an occupied dwelling puts the public at great risk and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law will allow.
Mary Anne Looby
7:41 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
Doesn't it alarm anyone that this idiot has a five year old sleeping while he is outside shooting a gun AND drunk????
Angie
9:55 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I guess, if he had staved it with a knife, he would have been charged with drunkin pumpkin carving lol? I agree, firing a gun in a residential neighborhood while intoxicated is reckless endangerment, drunk and disorderly, to say the least. Not to mention, ridiculous and juvenile. You'd think a grown man...and a FATHER nonetheless...would exercise better judgment
Angie
9:57 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Oops *stabbed* & *drunken* curse you autocorrect and predictive text
Erin Rose Brennan
12:40 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
He shot the pumpkin across the street towards rt378. anyone driving on 378 could have been shot for no reason at all. Thankfully I stayed in my house that night and didn't go to the supermarket as originally planned with my children.