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[MarvB]

Local girl's tooth removed by bow and arrow
Dad sent video to CNN 6 years later

BY NADINE PARKS
The Post and Courier
WALTERBORO - Ten-year-old Whitney Carden is sooooo embarrassed.

A video clip of her father shooting a loose tooth out of her mouth with a bow and arrow played on CNN on Saturday afternoon, nearly six years after it happened.

Whitney, a fifth-grader at Forest Hills Elementary School, was 4 or 5 when she asked her dad for help with a loose front tooth. She had tried all day to get it out, but it was stuck, she said.

Her father, Paul Carden, a hunter, tied a string of dental floss to the tooth, attached the floss to an arrow and shot.

It took three tries, but his camera caught the action as - pop - out came the tooth.

Carden, who owns a computer service company in Walterboro, was watching sports bloopers on CNN recently and decided to send in the video.

It aired at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday while a reporter conducted a live interview with Carden by phone, he said. Whitney watched herself on television and said she was embarrassed because she squealed a little in the footage.

She said the stunt didn't hurt. She was just glad to get rid of the tooth, which went flying into the kitchen.

"She went hunting for it, because she knew the Tooth Fairy was coming," said Whitney's mother, Renee Carden, a Dorchester County EMS paramedic.

Whitney said it took a long time to find the tooth, which she put under her pillow that night. The next morning, she found $8.06 on the bed, she said.

On the Web

To see the video of the tooth and arrow, visit www.charleston.net/webextras.

 

[noharleyyet]

"...it took three tries..."

 

[wilecoyote76]

I caught that little clip on the tv the other night as well. I thought it was funny as all get out....shooting out a loose tooth with a bow and arrow.

I might have to try it with my kids next time there is a loose tooth.

 

[MarvB]

What I like is that "the tooth went flying into the kitchen",,,no mention of the arrow which was probably buried in the wife's couch!

"...it took three tries..."

Sounds like IB and the badger shoot!

 

[cjcj]

Oh my god thats funny....innovation the heartbeat af
America

 

[scottymack]

I offered to do the same for my daughter and her loose tooth ....she refused

 

[Ultrahunter]

That's cool, I wish I would have thought about that first.

 

[Moosie]

This is were I wish I had a picture of that man with the broadhead in his head and say that his dad tried the same stunt but aimed at the guys tooth instead of away from it........

Hey BUBBA, hold this apple in yer mouth whil I shoot at it !