It was one of those rubber tipped ones, but still.

The story just jogged an old memory.

How the hell did this happen??

or something more sinister. That's my guess.

My partner goes up that way every Sunday for archery practice. It's mostly children and young adults, but a few adults as well.

If I had to guess, you had someone(s) with a bow and "Let's see how far I can shoot this."

In other words, idiocy.

To hear 8-year-old Nadine Hairston tell it, she "saved the whale" when an arrow fell from the sky and pierced her leg as she played on a life-size sculpture of a fin whale outside the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley.

Though the crossbow arrow lodged in her thigh during the Tuesday field trip, Nadine is doing well after surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland to remove the object, her mother, Alicia Hairston of San Rafael, said Wednesday.

Nadine actually wanted to go back to school immediately, but her mother told her she had to rest.

"It's shocking," Hairston said of the incident. "Don't take it out of context, but if it's going to happen, it happened to the right child. She's just an amazing child. She's always been remarkably resilient and courageous and brave."

Nadine said she was sliding down the whale when she felt a pain in her leg, her mother said. She jumped off and tried to run, but couldn't.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/8-year-old-hit-by-arrow-saved-the-whale-4389337.php#ixzz2Oqiaf06I

Turned out to be kids "playing" with bow and arrow.

Just like adults, kids will do the darndest things.