Ex-Wilson, PA man sentenced for shooting motorcycle

[soberbyker]

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-...,2350134.story

David Bauchat, the former Wilson man who last year shot a motorcycle parked in his driveway, said he went "way over the top."

"My intention was not to hurt anyone human," Bauchat, 37, said today, adding he meant only to harm the motorcycle. "Your honor, that whole day, if I could erase it, I would erase it."

Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano said he understood Bauchat's anger. Still, he said, he had to send a message that discharging firearms in residential neighborhoods won't be tolerated. He sent Bauchat, who now lives in Palmer Township, to serve six to 23 months in the county prison but granted him immediate work release. The judge also said Bauchat cannot own a firearm.

Bauchat on Sept. 11 pleaded guilty to terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and criminal mischief.

His attorney, Philip D. Lauer of Easton, said Bauchat has been diagnosed as bi-polar and is taking medications and doing well. He had been drinking July 16, 2006, when he shot the motorcycle. Lauer said that after the shooting, which damaged not only the motorcycle but two other vehicles parked nearby, Bauchat went inside his then-home, at 2100 Butler St., and passed out.

Police swarmed the area, closing off numerous streets, as they tried to get Bauchat to give himself up.

Bauchat wasn't ignoring police, Lauer said after leaving the sentencing hearing. "He was passed out," he said.

-- Reporting by Tyra Braden, The Morning Call

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[Zef_66]

Wow....so what was his reasoning for shooting the motorcycle? Just to harm it?

[DaveM55]

They shoot horses don't they?