Man showing girlfriend his gun shoots self in groin, police say

[jpak]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43482988/ns/us_news-weird_news/

A Bridgeport, Conn., man is recovering after doing his best Plaxico Burress impression.

Josinar Araujo, 24, was taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center after accidentally shooting himself in the groin, police told the News Times.

Araujo was showing his girlfriend his gun, when it went off, police said.

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[Deep13]

1. Insert your own dick joke. nt

[RSillsbee]

10. I was thinking something along the lines of

" Wasn't he supposed to shoot his gun in her groin?".

[hobbit709]

2. Tried to win that rare Darwin.

The one where you remove yourself from the gene pool and live.

[mistertrickster]

8. hehehe, good one. nt

[digitaln3rd]

3. Well I'll be darned.

The slightest touch and it goes off.

If I was the girlfriend, I'd run far away because that doesn't bode well for the relationship.

[jeepnstein]

4. You forgot to mention...

the part about the girlfriend getting busted for having a crack pipe. I'm sure they were a couple of model citizens.

Still, I did have to laugh just a bit. I'm willing to bet he wasn't using a proper holster and didn't have a legal CHP.

[onehandle]

5. Gun owners are more likely to shoot themselves in the groin than non-gun owners.

True story.

[spin]

7. "Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."

[TexasProgresive]

6. "This is my rifle,

This is my gun.

This ones for fighting.

This ones for fun."

[MineralMan]

9. This is my pistol; This was my gun.

Pistol went off; Now the gun is no fun.

[rrneck]

16. Gah!

:rofl:

[nichomachus]

11. I was working in the ER one day

They brought in a guy who had been playing "Rambo." He stuck an 8-inch knife into the waistband of his camo pants. Unfortunately, there were only six inches between the waistband and his junk.

[rrneck]

17. Was he jewish?

[gejohnston]

12. In other news,

LAND O' LAKES, Fla. (AP) - A woman awakened from her sleep in the middle of the night to find a masked man holding a knife to her throat and fatally shot the intruder.

The man was identified at Robert J. Metz, a neighbor of Maria Pittaras. He was described by his relatives as having a history of mental illness.

Police determined that Pittaras, 28, acted in self-defense in the shooting of Metz and would not be charged.

Pittaras awakened after 2 a.m. Wednesday to a man on top of her in her bed with a knife to her throat, police said. He was wearing a nylon mesh bag over his head and gloves.

Pittaras grabbed her gun from her nightstand. She fired two shots from the 38-caliber pistol. One hit the wall and the other struck Metz in the neck. He died instantly.

Metz, 47, had entered Pittaras' home by crawling through a guest bedroom window, sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said.

Metz, a construction worker, and his wife, Carolyn, lived four houses away from Pittaras in the quiet Turtle Lakes subdivision at the Pasco-Hillsborough counties line. She told police she did not know him before the attack.

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[ileus]

14. He should have showed her with his other gun, women from what I've found...

aren't that impressed with firearms.

[Glassunion]

15. It's a RW/GOP/NRA conspiracy.

I hear McCain is blaming this on the "illegals" as well.