Teen killed by shovel in odd game with car

Canadian Press

Mar. 24, 2003 10:00 AM





WINNIPEG - A 14-year-old boy died almost instantly after he was struck in the head during a bizarre game involving a stolen car and a shovel, Winnipeg police say.



Duty Insp. Jack Tinsley said a group of teens stole a Chrysler Intrepid and went joy-riding late Saturday night, and then began playing a game in which a shovel was thrown into the car through the open windows each time it came around the block.



During the fateful round, the shovel hit Rodger Ledger in the head, Tinsley said. The group panicked and left Ledger for dead, Tinsley said.



"There is a question of intent," he said. "We'll be going to the Crown on this to see what charges are appropriate."



Tinsley said the death is being labeled a homicide, Winnipeg's fifth of the year.



A police officer found Ledger in the back seat of the abandoned car in an empty field on Selkirk Avenue just before 5 a.m. Sunday.



The officer attempted to revive him, but Ledger was pronounced dead at the Health Sciences Centre soon after, Tinsley said.



Tinsley said the officer who discovered Ledger was in the area on an unrelated matter when he came across the stolen vehicle.

who throws a shovel? i mean really?



mike

EXACTLY https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif

WOW, I'm speechless. But Canada still has us beat when it comes to homicides. What's the ratio like, 1000-1.

Damn Canadians.. WTF?

no they had 5 this year so thats like 2:1!



mike

That case has been ruled a homicide, apparently the "game" thing was just a creative excuse https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/angry.png



J

Damn Canadians, they should make the shovel game a national pasttime. Hopefully they'll kill defprun or some of the other annoying canadians :-\

Or at least knock em retarded

In canada's defense it was Winnipeg....

I could give you some stupid US citizen ****, the dude that won the darwin awards 3 or 4 years ago was in my state. The guy got drunk and decided to bungee jump, using a CHAIN off the tacoma narrows bridge, if you want to say alcohol was to blame keep in mind canadians are always drunk, so they could always use that as an excuse https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

yes but you dont see people tossing garden tools about



mike

Depends on how pissed I am.

Oh come on, UM....... where was that 'Jackass' movie made??????



Tom

how many shovels did they throw?



mike

its not canadians its just dumb people, also note they are teenagers, so technically they arent even people yet,

they dont know what they are doing, they do whatever brings them joy which in this case is absolute nonsence.

I'm a people. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png

i wasnt refering to the smart teenagers https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/boink.gif

**********er what? LOL

Defprun is far less annoying than you are Node, I say that with the deepest respect possible. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

mother fucker what part did you not understand, and you say im slow, bizzliatch

I'm still a teenager fool, j00 hurt ma feel ings.

**** yeah! Im smart!











(and the porn helps too, doesnt it? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub... )

bitch please, srce im gonna have you neutered so you cant spread you demonseed among 12 year old girls.

haha teens aren't people yet..

lmfao, see what i mean

i only throw machetes

slaggin nerve gas