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Article: Police ask public not to fire guns on New Year's Hayward officer: 'There is simply no safe way to celebrate with a gun'
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 31, 2003
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Hayward and San Leandro police and the Alameda County Sheriff's
Office have issued their annual warning to misguided holiday revelers
about the dangers of celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve.
"There is simply no safe way to celebrate with a gun," said
Hayward police Lt. Darryl McAllister. Shots fired into the air must
come down somewhere, he explained, echoing the sentiments of other
local officials, and bullets fired toward the ground can ricochet
unpredictably.
Not only is the activity hazardous, but under state law, the
grossly negligent discharge of a firearm is a felony.
"It seems like every New Year's, some place in California somebody