Man uses gun as backscratcher, shoots himself.

[zanne]

----You can't make this shit up!


Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself

01:43 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
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A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.

“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off."

Mr. Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean said.

Mr. Espinal was taken to an area hospital, where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

1. Espinal is your dorsal spine

You can't make this shit up!

:rofl:

[zanne]

2. HAH! It must be fate. nt

[FirstLight]

3. That would at least get some kind of Darwin Award honorable mention? nt

[rusty quoin]

4. OMG

:rofl:

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[WWFZD]

6. What a moron

It could have been worse, he could have had to scratch his nads, OUCH.

[mike_c]

7. (squirms in chair....)

"'Scuse me guys, I'll just be a minute. It's these damn hemorrhoids flaring up again...." :rofl:

[ChristianDemocrat1]

8. Was he feeling bitter?

Is this one of those guys Obama does not quite connect with?

[maxidivine]

9. A man negligently shot himself

And you are crowing about it?

So much for gunowners not caring about anyone else or causing all the problems in society.

You people are too much.

[krispos42]

10. Yup, he's a dunce, all right

:rofl:

He's lucky he didn't blow his spine out!


Reminds me of a story a while ago, a guy in I think Connecticut had either gained or lost a lot of weight so his belt didn't fit him anymore. So he decided to punch a new hole in the belt.


Belt? Check.

Hammer? Check.

Table? Check.

Something pointy? Ummmmm.... Oh look, a .22 cartridge! Check!


*Whack!* *Whack!* *Whack!* *Whack!* BLAM!


They dug the bullet out of his stomach at the hospital.



One recent would-be robber shot himself accidently.

With a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun.

In the groin.

Twice.

I presume that after the first shot, he discharged the gun again while trying to yank it out of his pants so he could see if the twins were still attached. Ow ow ow ow ow...

:-)

[old mark]

11. Why do I believe...

...this man is a Republican?


mark