This
happened about 15 minutes from where I live:
Police in West Chester are looking for an assailant they believe used
a crossbow to shoot a pedestrian from a passing SUV.The victim, a restaurant worker who was walking home along High
Street early Sunday morning, was shot in the stomach with a 16-inch
hunting arrow. He was released Wednesday from the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.Benito Vargas told police he was at the corner of High and Barnard
Streets at about 1 a.m. when he saw the white SUV’s driver-side window
slide down, revealing the front part a crossbow just inside. Seconds
later, he was lying on the ground.[...]
“This thing would be silent. You wouldn’t hear any noise,” West
Chester Detective Thomas Yarnall said. [...] Yarnall said the
shooting appeared random [...]
Gives a whole old meaning to the phrase “looking for a quarrel”,
which in fact, originally referred to a crossbow bolt.
UPDATE:(Well, maybe. Some etymologists think the noun quarrel and verb quarrel have
separate origins.)