[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


guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 26 2008

"An American chef who thought he had been stung by a bee was stunned
when he
opened his shirt and saw a bullet drop out.

Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the golf range at
the
Zurich Classic of New Orleans yesterday, where the PGA Tour begins
tomorrow,
when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.

The cook shook his shirt sleeve and a .22 caliber bullet fell to the
ground,
according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

Police believe Prudhomme, who did not require medical attention, was
hit by
a falling bullet, probably shot from somewhere within a mile-and-a-
half
radius of the golf course.

"He thought it was a bee sting," Col John Fortunato, spokesman for the
local
sheriff's office, said. "Within five minutes, he was back to doing
his
thing."

Witnesses said the bullet cut Prudhomme's skin on his arm and put a
hole in
his white chef's coat. But Prudhomme continued with his cooking.

The chef, who is well-known in his home country, rose to prominence
after
being named the first American-born executive chef of noted New
Orleans
restaurant Commander's Palace in 1975.

He was at the course to cook for players, their caddies and guests at
the
annual US golf professionals tournament.