On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:26:38 -0600, Lou Decruss >
wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:44:42 -0700 (PDT), Gregory Morrow
> wrote:
>
>>[Looks like the golf course must be close to the ghetto...it *is* New
>>Orleans, after all...]
>>
>>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/26/prudhomme
>>
>>US chef hit by falling bullet
>
>He's actually lucky. Several years ago the Chicago suburb of
>Bloomingdale was having it's 4th of July festival. Someone in
>Keeneyville (yes that's actually a town) was a little over served and
>decided to shoot into the sky. The bullet traveled over a mile and
>landed in some kids head. It took the cops awhile, but they were
>able to figure out where the bullet came from and the shooter did (or
>is doing) time. IIRC he got 7 years.
>
>It would have been ironic if PP had died of a bullet rather than
>obesity.

Prudhomme's lost a lot of that weight:

http://www.cystinosisfoundation.org/MAD/MAD.html