Fun With Guns: I Drive a Damn Mercedes Edition
We’ve gotta to go to the sunshine state, y’all, because all that fun relaxes you.
A Florida woman who was driving her kids to kid things shot a dirty look at a man in a Mercedes who was weaving in and out of traffic. The man return the look with waving a handgun at her car.
She called 911. While on the phone, she said he “brandished a military-style rifle with a scope attached.” He was driving erratically, including putting his Mercedes in reverse.
She drove away as fast as she could. Other drivers got to see the rest of his behavior.
Gayle Sarceno first encountered the man after he leaped out of his Mercedes facing the wrong way at an intersection, and he began jumping up and down on one leg.
“He’s spewing blood from his leg,” Sarceno said. “He just drops, right there in the center lane.”
She and another witness stopped to help the man, who told them his name was Alex and that he had shot himself in his car.
Sarceno said the man was in extreme pain and apparently went into shock, and he was taken by an ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Police say they found a handgun and a large rifle in his car. They are not releasing his name, which kinda takes away a lot of the fun about this.
Sometimes Miss Karma is a lovely lady.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.
Once again I read one of these negligent discharge stories and think “God I love a happy ending.”
1Another victim of maroon-shoot syndrome. Lesson learned?
2Probably not.
“Alex,” huh? Damn, I was so hoping it was George Zimmerman:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-previous-road-rage-incident-matthew-apperson/story?id=30965362
3He must have multiple personality disorder – how else could he be both a bad guy with a gun and simultaneously the good guy with a gun who stopped the bad guy?
4Just another reason why I will never go to the Sunshine State.
5Are you sure it was Miss Karma and not one her cousins “Deadeye” Karma or “Sure-shot” Karma?
6I thought it was Fla Karma…
7From:
The Darwin Awards
Selection Committee
Dear Alex,
We regret to inform you that your recent attempt to qualify for the coveted Darwin Award fell short.
You have our condolences, and wishes for future success.
We would like to inform you that you needn’t be discouraged. You may enter into the Darwin Award selection process an unlimited number of times, whenever you choose to compete, and using whatever method you might imagine.
We remind you that we sometimes award “Special Creative Chevrons” and “Unique Snowflake Clusters” in addition to the DA for particularly outstanding achievements, so strive for your best effort next time.
And of course, alternatively, you may wish to qualify for the slightly less prestigious “Darwin Gene Pool Removal Award” (usually awarded in the firearms division); which we suspect you may have been aiming for in your most recent attempt.
(A medical affirmation is required for submission)
Wishing you the best of competitive luck,
Hon. Grim Reaper, Esq.
Chairman
Darwin Awards
©Sandridge
8You win, Sandridge!! LOL
9Eeeeeeeeekkkk!
10Good one,Sandridge.
11While I liked the comment from Sandridge, I checked the Darwin Award site and apparently gun shot wounds are not admitted it the awards because they are so COMMON.
Leaves out a lot of winners by doing that, but them’s the rules, Kim Davis might object though.
12Sandridge: A+++++.
13Excellent letter, Sandridge, aka Hon. Grim Reaper.
14Perhaps there might be a follow up letter offering moron insurance for the next time.
Thang yew, thang yew’all vry much…
maryelle,
15“moron insurance”, now that’s an untapped entrepreneurial opportunity.
Would think it might be hard to make a profit though, if it specialized in just morans.
As it is, they are all in the same pool with us non-(or less)moronics, spreading the risks around.
Kinda makes you wonder if good ol’ Alex’s health/life/auto/maybe HO’s insurance plan will hassle him any (you just know he has a “Cadillac Plan”)…
I was wondering if he had a wife, and how she might regard this exhibition of species fitness out on the old highway lek?
Sandridge ftw!
16The guy in the “or not” link picture must be German, perfect rendition of the German salute, remember it well, used it myself a few times towards some West German who felt cut off by me in my humble beetle with the USA plates :)).
17He ought to be arrested. And his weapons confiscated. But that won’t happen.
18“…shot himself in his car.” I myself have never been shot in the car, I’ve heard it’s the most painful shot there is.
19Sandridge wins!
‘Moron Insurance’ – isna’t that what both Glenn Beck and the disgraced Jim Bakker sell daily?
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