{"id":14157,"date":"2012-08-23T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2012-08-23T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:00:50","slug":"firearm-enhanced-mole-trap-shoots-randle-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"Firearm-enhanced mole trap shoots Randle man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An accident with a homemade mole trap fashioned from part of a 12-gauge shotgun injured a Randle resident yesterday when it shot him in the leg.<\/p>\n<p>Aid and deputies were called about 3:40 p.m. to the man&#8217;s home on the 10,000 block of U.S. Highway 12.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old man said he had caught a mole with the trap in his front yard and was setting it up over a hole in his backyard when it tipped over on the slope and discharged, according to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The device consisted of a shotgun barrel mounted on a metal plate and used a spring activation system with 12-gauge shells, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The man was able to go inside his home and call 911, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>He was transported to\u00a0 Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The injury to his right knee was not life threatening, but potentially disabling, Brown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter An accident with a homemade mole trap fashioned from part of a 12-gauge shotgun injured a Randle resident yesterday when it shot him in the leg. Aid and deputies were called about 3:40 p.m. to the man&#8217;s home on the 10,000 block of U.S. Highway 12. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}