Fun With Guns: Yes, Even At The Waldorf Edition
A woman was shot in the head and four others suffered injuries after a wedding guest’s gun accidentally went off during a reception at the Waldorf Astoria.
Vladimir Gotlibovsky, 42, allegedly fired into the floor of the lobby of the world famous hotel in New York City as wedding reception photos were being taken at around 7.25pm.
Everybody is gonna recover and the gunman claims to be a licensed gun carrier but the police think he handed-off the gun to someone else after the accidental shooting. They were searching area garbage cans for the gun, hoping they find it before bad guys or children do.
Best line of the night?
‘How could that happen here?’ asked a 53-year-old tourist from Holland who identified himself as Anthony told the Daily News. ‘That’s horrible. I come here and I always hear New York is dangerous, but come on? Even at the Waldorf?’
Apparently so, Anthony.
Thanks to Charles and Kathy for the heads up.
I’m puzzled. The gun “accidentally” went off how many times?
Bit of advice, guy… Next time throw rice, not lead.
1Ammosexuals, Ebola, and MERS, when coming to America those are a traveler’s biggest threats in descending order. Unless of course you think those “walk and don’t walk” flashing signs have meaning other than run for your life or stop on penalty of death. Why anyone, even a business person, would find themselves in Houston is a mystery to me. Houston has a peculiar animal that looks like a cross between a Cadillac and a longhorn steer. Those pink animals graze the crosswalks to make sport of pedestrians.
As for visiting New York or New Jersey, understand those cabbies are playing with you when they suggest you take a boat excursion to spot the Outlaw Jersey Whale. Do not waste $50 on one of those tours, when $5 at a donut shop is all you’ll need as bait to hook that monster.
2I’m not going to any more weddings.
3“but the police think he handed-off the gun to someone else after the accidental shooting”
What did he tell the police? That he lost his gun in the commotion after the shots were fired? Maybe he was robbed? Or he was attempting to prevent a robbery? Perhaps a magician made it disappear?
Clearly, just another good guy with a registered gun, and a lot of bad luck.
4My guess would be that the bullet ricocheted off the tile floor, throwing off splinters – and the bullet may have fragmented as well.
Yet another instance of people carrying guns “for protection” causing harm to others. I feel more need for protection from untrained people carrying dangerous weapons to guard against largely imaginary threats than I do against the “bad guys.”
Anyone who thinks that merely carrying a gun is protection against a bad guy with a gun needs to re-watch the scene in “Get Shorty” where Ray Barboni is confronted by a drug dealer with a gun tucked into his trouser’s waistband.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RHBOfM9CFQ
5This is America, where King Gun Nut rules. Visitors from abroad should be informed that the gun industry owns the Republican Party and they pander to the nut jobs who support them big time. No one is safe anywhere now.
6Sing-along:
Well, we’re movin’ on up!
To the East Side…
(Uh, no we ain’t!)
7Sooo… Has anybody been keeping up with which states have this happen? Cause I want to move some place where unintentional discharges of concealed handguns dont happen.
8Micr wins with asking the question to which we would all like an answer. Hawaii, maybe?
Between the migratory not so civil civilian gun humpers and a few of the civil servants with badges on steroids, traveling our city streets poses a great threat to the GOP propaganda machine. Good luck selling us on the threat of ISIL, Lindsey, when GOP governors have armed the domestic wacko birds.
Think I’ll head out to the veranda with a cold beer and feel very safe about those odds of an asteroid strike. 😀
9http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/nyregion/wedding-guest-who-discharged-gun-at-waldorf-astoria-faces-charges.html?_r=0
Finally an ammosexual dingbat faces charges for reckless behavior. ’bout time.
10Vladimir Gotlibovsky. People, you realize that is Russian, right? Had no idea the Waldorf hosted Russian weddings. Add vodka and lo, the shooting starts. The fact that they cannot find the gun makes me think this guy is a total pro.
11Sounds as though this guy stood his ground, but his gun didn’t.
12PKM:
13I’m in Hawaii, and incidents involving gunfire here are extremely low. It does happen, but unless you are a feral pig in the remote mountain areas, or live in Dog The Bounty Hunter areas of Honolulu, you just don’t hear about this kind of thing. Plus Obama gets 72% of the vote.
Rick, Hawaii wins! All Hawaii needs now is for the feral pigs to run out Dog the Bounty Hunter. I love wild boar; vigilantes, not so much.
Feral cats can be trapped, spayed/neutered and released. Feral pigs or wild boar are manageable with proper hunting and thinning the herd techniques.
Why oh why can we not manage the gun humping herds?
BTW Are the birthers still there, or have they run off to Calgary to check out Daffy Cruz, Jr.’s credentials?
14WHY would anyone take a gun to a WEDDING? They trying to work out the plot for a murder mystery?
15The gun-humper should (1) get a bill for all the damage he caused to the ballroom at the Waldorf, (2) get a second bill to pay for a new wedding, and (3) be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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