A 49-year-old person was taken to hospital after being hit by the rifle A pedestrian in Warsaw was injured after a drunk man threw an air rifle from a high-rise apartment window. The drunk then, apparently, crashed his BMW in an attempt to flee the scene, authorities have said. Police in Poland’s capital said on Friday that a 49-year-old resident was hospitalized with leg injuries after being struck by an air rifle dropped from a seventh-story apartment in the city’s Praga-Północ district. According to a statement from law enforcement, the injured person showed officers responding to the “disturbing” incident which window the air rifle was thrown from. When officers went to investigate the residence, however, they found that the door was “wide open” and the apartment empty. Inside the home, police said they found a box of air-gun pellets on the windowsill and a compressed air cylinder similar to the one attached to the rifle thrown from the window. After some time, a 30-year-old man under the influence of alcohol returned to the residence and “admitted to throwing the rifle out the window,” authorities said, adding that the suspect was subsequently arrested. Further investigation revealed that the man had fled the area in a BMW after the incident with the air rifle, crashing the vehicle into the gate of a nearby underground parking garage. Police confiscated the suspect’s driver’s license and carried out a breathalyzer test which revealed he had a blood alcohol content of more than 0.05%. The 30-year-old was charged with exposing a person to “immediate danger and bodily harm” and driving under the influence, authorities said, adding that an additional charge of causing a road collision would also be levied against him. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine, set to be decided by a court, according to police.
