Police: ATV driver shot Forest City man with a pellet gun at rec trail

Published: June 29, 2009

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Man wanted in pellet gun attack

FELL TWP. - State police are looking for information about a one-legged ATV driver who allegedly shot a Forest City man in the ankle with a pellet gun Friday after the man tried to block three ATVs from entering a recreation trail where they are banned.

The incident began as an argument at the entrance to the rails-to-trails site off Homestead Street at 3:15 p.m. and ended with the three ATV drivers fleeing north along the trail, police said.

Police described the three drivers as a 240-pound man with one leg on a camouflage ATV, a 10- or 12-year-old boy on a racing-style ATV and a slender female with a black halter top. Robert Polednak of Forest City was not injured by the pellet, police said.

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Check the Local Trailer Parks for that one! L@@K for the "One Arm, one Eyed; Yellow,... "Purple People Eater"
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Columbo,  06/29/09 10:31
Ha this is good stuff!! A one-legged ATV rider shooting people with a pellet gun.....HAHAHAHA.
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rmk,  06/29/09 10:09
ATV riders seem to think they can just ride wherever they want - often at breakneck speeds, ripping up trails and causing massive erosion problems - even in town in Dunmore and Scranton, where you will often hear their loud motors roaring up and down alleys and through quiet residential areas where children play. Something needs to be done.
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Jeff,  06/29/09 09:21
Police looking for a overweight one-legged man that can't shoot straight...goes by the name lucky.
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Cooter,  06/29/09 09:07
Well it should be hard to fine him. How many men with one leg live in the forest city area?
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Veronica,  06/29/09 08:25
What is wrong with these people, apparantly they have no concern for who they hurt. They have no concern that they have added more fuel to the fire that is growing against ATV riders everywhere by showing that ATV riders are just a bunch of outlaws and now are a bunch of gun toting outlaws that are getting their families envolved in their outlaw ways. I hope that the police find them and give them the stiffest penalty that they can. Honest law abiding ATV enthusiasts are getting hit hard by people like this.
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Greg Leonard,  06/29/09 08:24
Pure Pennsylvanian story right here.
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The One-Armed Man,  06/29/09 08:07
Isn't that the plot from The Fugitive.....Oh wait it was a one armed man......
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Tom Lee Jones,  06/29/09 08:01
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