Fun With Guns: Hook ‘Um Cops Edition
At the University of Texas, where campus carry means a safer Texas. (That was a little joke there.)
A University of Texas police officer accidentally shot himself Tuesday morning outside of the campus police department, according to UT police.
Paramedics took the officer to University Medical Center Brackenridge with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
Initial reports were that the officer shot himself accidentally while performing a weapons check. UT police are investigating the incident, UT police said.
No one else was injured and best we can tell, Aggies are strutting today.
Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.
Weapons check? Yes, officer, it works.
1Weapons check reminds me of the chainsaw with an automatic cutoff– “Anything it hits, it automatically cuts off.”
And this is one of the people supposed to be *trained* in using a deadly weapon.
2How do you shoot yourself unloading a pistol? Don’t point a weapon at anything you don’t want to shoot. Yesterday, a retired USMC General shot his wife in the foot unloading a pistol, today a police officer. I feel like I’ve gone through the looking glass.
3That be learnin’ Dubya style. Clean your weapon, so it doesn’t blow up in your face. Cleaning your weapon so you don’t shoot off body parts from yourself or others; optional.
4Rhea, your comment reminds me of what a friend said about a family with kids who kept a loaded gun “hidden” in the house–“They might as well keep their table-saw in the living room.”
5Was the bullet maroon?
6Henry,
7Nowadays that looking glass has to be ballistic glass (bulletproof).
Why do these guys keep checking their weapons?
8Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
BANG!
They should at least have the courtesy to do it in private where there’s no chance of hurting anyone else.
Not in a car.
Not on campus.
Rick says:
May 17, 2016 at 7:33 pm
Why do these guys keep checking their weapons?
It must be that primeval instinct that certain immature types have to play with themselves (harkens back to youthful willie waving)? Y’know, a ‘twanging the naughty bits around’ substitute (in public places).
9As an encore he should use a match to see if there’s gas in his car’s tank.
10This guy and the UMC General are lucky the bullets didn’t hit their brains…..
11Sandridge, a female friend once remarked, “What is it with men? I don’t have a need to feel my breasts to make sure they’re still there….”
12Rhea,
Welp, peripheral vision makes the difference? Naaaa, those fools just fixated on willy wigglin’, or facsimile thereof (gun = naughty bit).
Ruh oh, the MCS is just blowing in, more wind, hail, rain and lightning like crazy (good thing I got some UPS’s ’cause power is taking big hits). This dang weather the last month or so is positively biblical.
13Oh, yeah! And cops never have an accident with their patrol cars and trees!
Can’t help but notice that the wounded area was not part of the report which leads me to think that it must have been a part most unreplacable . . .
14Lucky him; t’would have been more ironic if it was fatal, being it happened on “2200 Robert Dedman Rd.”
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