Fun With Guns: East Texas Style Edition

July 07, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Marietta, Texas, is of course in East Texas.  It’s half way between Nodamnplace and Mt. Pleasant.

There’s Armadillos there and 52 year old Samuel Ebert was trying to fix that.

UnknownHe hauled off and fired his gun three times at an armadillo at 3:00 am. Best I know from my vast armadillo experience, armadillos do not routinely glow in the dark. I imagine the only light at 3:00 am in east Texas is neon, not the best for hunting.

In an odd twist of hunting protocol, Samuel Ebert ended up shooting himself.

He claimed the bullet ricocheted off the animal’s hard-shelled armor and plunked him in the head.

Sheriff Larry Rowe countered the explanation, saying the bullet more likely bounced off a rock.

“We got tough armadillos out here. But they’re not that tough,” Rowe told the Daily News.

He ended up with a fractured jaw, and the sheriff knowing he was drunk at 3:00 am shooting at rocks, which might be kinda embarrassing.

Amarillo 1, Rock 0, Samuel Ebert -3.

 

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0 Comments to “Fun With Guns: East Texas Style Edition”


  1. Well, shaming might work if the individual has any sense of shame. Otherwise . . .

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  2. Marcia in CO says:

    Do they even know what embarrassing is in E. Texas?

    If it ain’t Obama, it must be those armadillos!! Damn their tough ole hide anyways!! Snort! Snort!!

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  3. Polite Kool Marxist says:

    Article is from 7/2015. However, Sam’s is a separate shooting from ol’ Larry in Georgia who killed his armadillo protagonist and managed to shoot through the trailer door of his MIL, through her chair and into her back.

    Booze or guns, boys. Ya can’t have both. One drink and you may or may not be ‘legal’ to drive a vehicle. Guns? meh…..

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  4. maryelle says:

    How must it feel to be dumber than a rock?

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  5. JAKvirginia says:

    Somewhere in East Texas an armadillo is laughing their ass off!

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  6. RepubAnon says:

    Armadillos seem to be the answer to fools with guns. Perhaps we should paint “Vote for Hillary” on a bunch of them, and release them near the next open-carry demonstration…

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  7. Rubymay says:

    RepubAnon — What an excellent idea!

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  8. Mah Fellow Murkuhn says:

    How did Amarillo wind up in East Texas, with a score of 1?

    IIRC, this is the third time Juanita has posted this same story. Armadillos must really amuse her, when mixed with bullets.

    😀 😀

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  9. I like armadillos better than ammosexuals.

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  10. two crows says:

    Oh my. This puts me in mind – – –

    For all my making fun of silly and/or stupid people with guns, I have to admit

    My grandma got sick of the armadillos digging up her garden. This was back when they were first invading south Louisiana — maybe the early 1960’s?

    So, when I was in my teens, I spent a week or two on the farm. I woke up in the middle of the night to BLAM! BLAM! and Grandma Bessie whooping, “Preston! Preston! I got ‘im!”

    Well, she didn’t shoot herself or anyone else in the household [except the critter she was aiming at] so she was WAY far ahead of the pack you usually profile here.

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  11. Tilphousia says:

    Only in Texas……LOL

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  12. Uncle Dave says:

    That was reported year ago, and this is the same incident. Only a little over one hundred people live in Marietta; a town that size does not have room for more than one village idiot.

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  13. Lunargent says:

    Hey, how come no points for the rock? It’s smarter than the shooter.

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  14. WA Skeptic says:

    You folks have some gnarly armadillos in Texas!

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