Fun With Guns: New Word for Drunk Edition
Cincinnati, where an off duty police office took his wife to dinner:
They were in an elevator when the office began adjusting his department issued firearm in his holster. It, of course, went off.
Police tell WCPO-TV that the bullet ricocheted off the elevator walls and struck him.
Jouett was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
Eight ball in the side pocket?
And then comes…
Capt. Mike John with the Cincinnati Police Department calls the situation “very unusual.”
Billy Bob Janochek went over the VFW Hall Dance last Saturday night, finished off a 12 pack of Lone Star and got very unusual, too.
Thanks to MB for the heads up
If he had a second gun, could he have defended himself against the first gun?
That poor unarmed elevator didn’t have a chance.
1This is a pretty good example of a law of physics that a lot of gun owners seem to be unaware of. Once a gun is fired the bullet ends up somewhere.
2Do you have to be very unusual to shoot yourself in an elevator or just stupid? At least he didn’t shoot his wife. It would have been a vast improvement if Ray Rice had knocked himself unconscious in that elevator instead of his poor cowed fiancée.
3I wonder if that elevator had a security camera.
4I’m trying….. hard as I can……to wrap my pea brain around some of this stuff.
POLICE OFFICERS……
(a) Sleep with their guns, and “accidentally” shoot their wife…. not once….but maybe twice.
(b) “off duty”……. Carry their guns with them to dinner with the little woman, and kill the elevator.
What is it?…… I know I’m missing something here…
I just don’t know what it is….. Somebody… please explain.
5My theory is he got in the elevator, the door closed, he looked to the left and in the super shiny stainless steel panel saw a reflection of himself that looked like a “bad guy with a gun.” He shot and fired at the “bad guy” but the reflection returned fire with a ricochet, and down he went.
6I don’t know about you but I’m getting real interested in the Safety course these folks have to attend.
7Miemaw, you’re not missing anything. Trying to figure some people out is like trying to smell the color nine.
8@Sharon: It was indeed caught on a security video. Nowadays one should think carefully before picking one’s nose or adjusting underwear in the “privacy” of an elevator!
9Rick nailed it……
10So if people whose jobs require that they have gun training are doing things like this…. are any of us safe from your average gun carrying macho …uh, citizen?
11@ AliceBeth: No. Especially in Walmart.
12These yahoos are all supposed to be “certified” and they are supposed to be “re-certified” annually in most of the places I have wandered around. I think the problem is our education system; they’ve dumbed us down to where we now confuse “certified” and “certifiable.” I wish it were funny, but we are way past that point now.
13Looky here Cincinnati. I got two favorite holsters. Neither one of ’em requires “adjusting” nothing except where they hang relative to my right side. I adjust my pants, my shirt, my belt, my attitude etc. but there’s nothing about these holsters to adjust. WTF, O?
14Yep, I too believe Rick nailed it. Sadly, there’s nothing “highly unusual” about this at all. It’s just more gun craziness.
15Saw the video of the shooting in the elevator. Have no idea why anyone would be adjusting a shoulder holster unless he was really actually drawing the weapon in order to use it. And then he plugged his own self. There is so much poetic justice in that I could almost sing God Bless America.
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