Here is an interesting Slingshot story from the Tri-City Herald. It turns out a dispute with a Slingshot brough in the SWAT team! Talk about overkill!Mid-Columbia news

SWAT team called in for Benton City 'slingshot caper'

Published Sunday, August 12th, 2007

By Dori O'Neal, Herald staff writer

Was it gun fire? Or, was it the concussion of a steel bearing, flung from a slingshot?

An altercation between two Benton City residents culminated late Friday with a man locking himself inside his home after he allegedly fired a gun at a neighbor's home, and squeezed off other shots in the Kiona Village mobile home park.

The man surrendered to the Benton County Regional SWAT team late Friday without incident. Sheriff's deputies found no gun inside the man's home. But they did find a slingshot as well as illegal drugs.

Authorities said 911 operators received a call late Friday about a dispute between neighbors that ended with "what sounded like shots fired" at the mobile home park.

When deputies arrived, about eight residents said they heard gunfire and told officers the culprit had barracaded himself in his home at 31404 Kennedy Road, said Sgt. Ron Sabin with the Benton County Sheriff's Department.

Sabin said neighbors told deputies the man, Cameron D. Boggs, reportedly was drunk when he clashed with a neighbor Friday evening. The subject of the argument was not known.

Boggs, 47, allegedly returned to his house, got what residents said they believed was a gun, went back to a neighbor's house and fired a shot at the side of the house, authorities said.

Then he purportedly turned around and walked back down the street toward his house. Along the way he apparently fired another random shot before locking himself inside his home at space No. 53, authorities said.

There were no reports of injuries. Still, the potential danger prompted the sheriff's department to call out the SWAT team.

After Boggs surrendered and a search warrant was obtained, authorites looked for a gun in the mobile home and found none. Deputies also did not find any bullet slugs in the home where one of the alleged shots was fired, Sabin added.

"Eight people said they heard gun shots. You can't dispute that. But it appears what they heard might have been a rock thrown by a slingshot," Sabin said.

Sheriff Larry Taylor said the sound of a steel bearing or rock hitting metal siding can make a horrendous noise that could be mistaken for gunfire. He also said the slingshot was not your average kid's toy but a wrist rocket.

Boggs was booked into the Benton County jail for possession of meth, and the prosecutor's office also is looking into possible assault and malicious mischief charges, Taylor said.

"I guess you could call this an audacious slingshot caper," Taylor said.Note: SWAT team called in for Benton City 'slingshot caper'