Fun With Guns
It’s been a while since we played Fun With Guns, but I’m kinda missing it. The rules are: (1) an idiot must be involved, (2) nobody gets killed unless it is the aforementioned idiot, (3) it has to be kinda funny and 100% embarrassing to the idiot.
I take you back to one of my favorite places in Texas, Fayette County, because I just love a lot of the people who live there and they have a pretty good newspaper.
Please meet Luis Benitez, who has invented a helluva way to start the day.
The lesson here is: don’t go moving the furniture around and redecorating without unloading your weapons first.
This guy should probably wear a body armor cup and jockstrap, too.
1It’s impossible to make things foolproof because fools are so damn ingenious.
2Probably practicing his quickdraw technique while waiting for his wife. It’s the new shadow boxing.
3John, you’re probably right.
4And I wouldn’t be surprised if he was videoing it for YouTube.
Or just to have on hand for any future run for public office.
His injuries may not be life-threatening, but shooting himself in the knee will leave him in enough pain for the rest of his life.to remind him of his stupidity, constantly.
5Ol’ Luis is racks up double idiot points, he’s one of those ‘Dodge Ram’ types, in addition to being painfully inept with a firearm..
You’ve all encountered idiot Ram drivers on the road before.
Ramins strongly tend to be the most idiotic, most aggressive, just plain PITA jerks on the highways; it’s in their DNA [‘nuther DodgeNumbnutsAsshole].
Next time you get cut off, sideswiped, see a shiny pickemup grille coming through your rear window, or are otherwise vehicularly assaulted, it’s highly likely that it’ll be a Dodge Ram driven by a cretin.
6Is that the same La Grange from the ZZ Top song?
You know the one with those women!!!
Maybe he was movin’ his piece in preparation for
7some action.
rich in fla @7, Yup, same lil ol’ La Grange, with the “Chicken Ranch”.
I used to commute through it often going to Brenham [77/159/237], Navasota, et al. Didn’t stop much, but did get gas and snacks at the local HEB, which is not far from the site of this incident [and the Chicken Ranch]. Pretty big speedtrap area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange,_Texas
The Chicken Ranch has a most interesting history :
8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Ranch_(Texas)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Little_Whorehouse_in_Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange_(song)
Sandridge @ 6:
The advertising campaign for Dodge Ram was based on aggressiveness. No surprise that Dodge Ram drivers are more aggressive than most. You reap what you sow.
9If they wrote country & western songs about a man, his pickup truck, and the gun he shot himself with, I’d start listening to country stations.
Especially if his dog left him afterwards.
10Being completely rude – having a quick 50 and it went off .
11OT: Any Perry Mason fans around?
MeTV has restarted the series with Season 1, Episode 1, beginning at 0800h cdt this morning. They also run one at 2230h every night, but it is a different episode cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Perry_Mason_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason_(1957_TV_series)
“1 1 “The Case of the Restless Redhead” William D. Russell Russell S. Hughes 1954 novel September 21, 1957
12Perry defends a movie star accused of killing a conman. Cast: Whitney Blake (Evelyn Bagby), Vaughn Taylor (Lewis Boles), Grandon Rhodes (Judge Kippen)[1]: 89 ”
This one has it all. Killed by the fashion police, so to speak:
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/06/28/murder-and-accidental-suicide-in-the-bronx/
13The vehicle most often being driven in DUI/DWI arrests is the Dodge Ram:
https://insurify.com/insights/car-models-most-duis-2020
To which everyone says, well, DUH!
14Surly.
Interesting chart. I own one of the vehicles in the top ten . . .
15Rick @ 10
16If they add in some rain and a freight train, I’ll buy the CD.
slipstream @9, I passed on mentioning the ads; they know their target market, the biggest segment out there: redneck yahoos. After owning several Chrysler products, all lemons, I’d never have another.
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Surly @14, Most interesting link, the ‘Rudest’ list there too. Many listed certainly on the mark, some surprising; none of mine there.
After working on a wrecker in high school, and later driving many more miles than most, seeing a lot of highway carnage, I formed a strong opinion on drunk drivers.
17IMO, drunk drivers who kill or maim innocent victims should be charged with 1st degree murder; and if found guilty, given a mandatory death sentence.
In Texas, DWI, DUI used to be treated as the slightest of offenses [often a ‘good ol’ boy’ thing]. Lately I’ve seen a lot of news items about the perps getting charged with various severe offenses, vehicular manslaughter, etc. That doesn’t go far enough but it’s a start.