{"id":166,"date":"2015-04-17T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:25:09","slug":"man-accidentally-shoots-mother-in-law-via-armadillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/man-accidentally-shoots-mother-in-law-via-armadillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Accidentally Shoots Mother-In-Law Via Armadillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Georgia shot an armadillo, which then ricocheted off the Armadillo\u2019s hard outer shell and hit his mother-in-law in the back.<\/p>\n<p>Larry McElroy, aged 54, used a 9mm pistol to shoot an armadillo, but, unexpectedly, the bullet bounced off the armadillo given it\u2019s leathery protective shell. The bullet then hit the man\u2019s mother-in-law, Carol Johnson, aged 74, who was 90 metres (100 yards) away at the time, sitting on a recliner inside of her mobile home.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the armadillo did not make it out alive given the severe shock from the bullet, but the man\u2019s mother-in-law is said to be just fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson of the day: <\/strong>Be nice to armadillos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Georgia shot an armadillo, which then ricocheted off the Armadillo\u2019s hard outer shell and hit his mother-in-law in the back. Larry McElroy, aged 54, used a 9mm pistol to shoot an armadillo, but, unexpectedly, the bullet bounced off the armadillo given it\u2019s leathery protective shell. The bullet then hit the man\u2019s mother-in-law, Carol Johnson, aged 74, who was 90 metres (100 yards) away at the time, sitting on a recliner inside of her mobile home. Authorities say the armadillo did not make it out alive given the severe shock from the bullet, but the man\u2019s mother-in-law is <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}