Seems safe to me
So, a guy’s house got burgled. This upset him and he wanted to alert his friend to how easy it was to be a victim of burglary. So, to illustrate his point, he took the obvious step of rushing into his friend’s place and acting aggressively. At that point, the friend shot him in the chest with a 9mm.
The language in the article is amusing. They call it a prank, maybe it was. And they call the shooting accidental. It was not. The homeowner shot a man he believed was attacking him. While ‘sure of his target’ in the immediate sense of ‘I’m being attacked’, he was not so sure in the broader sense of ‘who exactly is this person?’
Hard to call that one a bad shoot. Easy to call it having dumb friends.
May 16th, 2012 at 10:46 am
And the homeowner’s young child was in the room with him at that same time. You want to get an aggressive response? Break into someone’s home and act aggressively near his kid.
Like Jay G always says, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” This twit is just lucky that he survived the experience.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:06 am
And, I’d bet the idiot friend is glad the homeowner was, apparently, a lousy shot and used a minor caliber.
I’d also wager the homeowner’s take-away is a need for more practice and a larger diameter barrel.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Anybody know, off-hand, Heinlein’s quote about stupidity?
May 16th, 2012 at 11:29 am
How about John Waynes, “Life is tough, it’s tougher when your stupid”.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:36 am
A few years a go there was a spate of stories about “police training” where they would use uninformed people as victims, such as bursting into a classroom. Always struck me as foolish as they might just run into someone alert and responsive. Who the police would summarily kill or crucify to cover their stupidity.
Do a google search on “halloween porch scare punch”. There are a lot of people who don’t understand it is flight OR fight
May 16th, 2012 at 11:42 am
Umm, nk do yo you mean “Stupidity SHOULD be painful?”
It was present in Large Economy Size lots here.
May 16th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
He is lucky he wasn’t shot with a 1911 45ACP. The pic is of a Glock, which I assume is accurate since the “perp” survived.
May 16th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
You guys made me look it up?
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
May 16th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Economy size lot of Stupid matched up to Special Purchase Size Painful. Win!