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Top 10 Scary Radio Stories of 2009

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#6 Radio Personality Shoots Dog, Bullet Hits Wife
(Saturday May 2, 2009)

People in Radio are nuts. Florida is nuts. Put them both together and you get something like this: 43-year-old radio personality, Shannon Burke shot at his dog and hit his wife. (Right: Shannon Burke, Photo: Seminole County Sheriff's Office)

Burke, from the "Shannon Burke Show" on WTKS, was having an argument with his wife about the dog and how to care for it when he threatened to shoot it with his gun.

He pulled the trigger and a .40 caliber bullet went through the dog's leg and then hit is wife, Catherine, in the head. She went to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury; the dog wound up at an emergency clinic; Burke was taken to jail on a charge of aggravated battery using a deadly weapon.

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