Fun With Guns: That’s Not The Kind of Fire He Expected Edition
Let’s go to Target in Hurst, Texas, not far from the Wee Winkie Parade of last week.
Baby, Won’t You Light My Fire got a little edgy yesterday.
An employee at a North Texas Target accidentally shot himself in the hand with a gun dropped by a customer on Wednesday afternoon, police say.
Hurst Police Assistant Chief Steve Niekamp said a shopper with a concealed handgun license brought the .22 caliber revolver into the store at 1400 Precinct Line Road. As he was leaving, the small gun fell out of his pocket without his knowledge.
A store employee who found the gun thought it was a lighter and tested the trigger, shooting himself in the hand, Niekamp said.
Yes, they do make guns that look like lighters. It’s an easy mistake and an excellent excuse to shoot your kid, too.
Thanks to Sandy for the heads up.
Was he planning on using the lighter to smoke a cigarette? That can be really bad for your health.
1“The gun fell out of his pocket without his knowledge.” This is the level of ‘responsible’ gun ownership we have come to expect from the dingbats who use guns like pacifiers. They can’t leave home without it.
2Sigh.
3“I just shot f… myself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rGnMKszxg
4I’m just glad to know that the 2d amendment covers derringers. I often wake in a cold sweat that I might be attacked at the Long Branch Saloon by a cheatin card dealer or by an evil riverboat gambler
5Fred, I prefer the musical version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGmTrQXrwg
Language on neither is suitable for Mama but I can’t help snickering at this one.
I’m trying to decide which is more idiotically dangerous: walking around with a loaded gun and not noticing that you’ve dropped it in public, or walking around with a (presumably) loaded huge rifle as if you’ll have to fend off an army any second. Only a damn fool would do either one.
6Thanks for the link, Rhea. The Follies Bergere could use this guy.
7I can’t figure out which thing really wins the stupid prize:
1. carrying a loaded gun and not noticing that you’ve lost it, presumably after it dropped 3′-4′ feet to the concrete floor out of your pocket, or
2. seeing an object that appears to be a gun on the floor and, assuming it to be a lighter, deciding to test out its fire-starting ability on your own flesh.
Survey says?
8Why does this all sound like a hugely bad French farce?
9Cuz, well . . . I bet the nitwit gun toter had nothing better to do . . . and then there’s the nitwit gun finder. Human behavior s t r e t c h e d beyond plausibility that some people find somehow amusing. I can just see the gun loser stuffing the derringer in a too-small pants pocket on a pair of too small pants worn by someone two sizes too big for them and then bending over to pick up a dime and he can’t even hear the ker-plop of the gun hitting the floor. Cue Jacques Tatti, the famous French actor in many such a farce! But oh, no! This has just gotta be a cast of good ole boys! Lord love a duck!
Who was the person pictured on the target the guy who effing shot himself was standing by?
Loved the music. Hate the idiocy.
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