Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Some people are just too damned literal.
Yeah, he says it was an accident, but I think he just has a hard time with metaphors.*
Unlucky loo: Man's gun fires, shatters toilet
CENTERVILLE, Utah (AP) -- The man escaped with a few cuts to his arm, but the toilet made out much worse.Police say a man's gun fell out of its holster while he pulled up his pants after using the bathroom at a Carl's Jr. restaurant. The gun fired when it hit the floor and shattered the commode.
A few shards of porcelain hit and cut the man's arm. A woman in an adjacent restroom reported chest pain after she was scared by the shot. Both people were checked at the scene and released.
Police say they confiscated the 26-year-old man's firearm while they review the Tuesday incident. The man had a concealed weapons permit. No charges are being filed.
Jim Downey
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"Honest, baby, that's never happened to me before!"
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OK, I'll be the one to say it: Yes, you really have to explain it to me. I can't guess what metaphor you mean.
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Speaking of being literal
This is one of those rare times when somebody could say something scared the shit out of them and actually mean it.
Frank Moorman, skeptic
And, ahem...
I noticed this classy guy was in a Carl's Jr. Must've been an exciting day there for them... So funny.
idiot penalty
Do they revoke your concealed weapons permit for being an idiot and leaving the safety off?
There is no such things as 'safety' in this world.
Well, there are a lot of guns made without any kind of external safety - by their design, they have other internal safeties or like a revolver are inherently difficult to fire unintentionally. And modern firearms usually have to conform to a safety 'drop test' which would make such an incident almost impossible. Guns don't "just go off" on their own, even when dropped - you can almost always trace an "accident" to a 'negligent discharge' (operator error) of some variety.
Speculation on the gun board where I came across this story was that there were two likely scenarios to explain what happened: 1) the guy was dicking around with the gun and accidentally pulled the trigger, or 2) that the gun did indeed accidentally fall out of his holster in the process of sitting on or getting off the toilet, and in attempting to grab it as it fell he accidentally pulled the trigger. No other scenario really makes much sense.
Jim Downey
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