From ABC Channel 15.CHANDLER, AZ - Chandler police say a 27-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the groin outside a grocery store Tuesday night. According to the police report, the man had his fiancee's pink pistol tucked in the front waistband of his pants when the gun accidentally fired.
The bullet hit the man's penis and then went through one of his legs. He was then taken to the hospital and underwent surgery.
Police said it's not clear how bad the injuries were but called them non-life threatening.
Dear Readers - I read this and looking at it from someone who owns and safely handles firearms almost every day, it hits me. We know the four rules. There are also things we learn about firearms that are innately right, and things that are just unwise, no matter what the circumstances. How could he even attempt. . I mean, with all the choices. . . how could he even think. . . .???
I mean it, A PINK gun??
- Brigid
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Like attracting like?
Perhaps some exposure to Sheriff Joe's tent city jail? Same county.
Seems to me the best reason to own a pink gun, is that one's boyfriend would keep his grubby paws off of it. So much for that theory.
that hurts just thinking about it. not too bright, eh? :)
Back when I was yea close to being a husband and father, I used to tweak my beloved's sense of outrage by threatening to have Baby Loren hold a pink .22lr chipmunk rifle.
It never did happen, but I can see his sunshine smile as he sits there resplendent in his camo warm ups, holding that pink rifle.
I will not make any comments about her having to kiss it and make it better...I won't say it...
One of my gal friends down in the southwest, who doesn't blog but will leave her comments in email sent this gem.
"Aside from the vulgar impression of something pink peeking out of his waistband to myopic old farts like me. I suspect that there must be an ethereal guardian of
real men standards who intervened.
I bet he will ditch this girlfriend and become engaged
to a piccolo player, AFTER he recovers."
L - there's a reason Phlegmfatale and I just think you're the best.
So, you're telling me he came out of this with two 2" pink snubbies?
I for once have come up speechless! Really?
+1 To Murphy on that one! But Murph, if she does, where does she do that, the jar or him? Just sayin'
I bet the color of the gun helped him to aim straighter. No, I'm serious. The color makes a vas deferens . . .
;-)
The girlfriend does not to be seen carrying the gun while in the grocery shop. Just in case of mistaken intentions. "Is she buying a tub of Baskins or my cash register?"
"Hi dear, can be a sport and hold my piece for me?"
"Ok sure", Boyfriends sticks in some where to appear macho and out of sight.
So I'm wondering exactly how "direct pressure" to stop the bleeding was applied?
Maybe it matched his boxers?
Dann in Ohio
This is rapidly going downhill. I'm sitting home alone on a Friday night in my V.S. Jammies with a Jameson while chatting with someone thousands of miles away, and they're probably wondering why I'm laughing my butt off.
Thanks!
Another winner of the Darwin award.
Hopefully there will be no progeny in the future just like him.
Say, is that a Pink Gat in your pocket or are you trying to ask me something?
Oh, maybe happiness is NOT a warm handgun?
Thank you for the best laugh I've had today.
Thanks all for my morning laugh!!! I've spilled my coffee from laughing so hard.
There's just so much fail in the story ... but you're right the main fail is the pink gun! ..
Brigid,
Is this what they mean when they say one should use protection?
SWModel66
Rule Three, people. It's the law.
We all know guns don't "accidentally fire." I'd say this one "dumb-buttedly fired."
Ummm...How can a shot to the penis not be considered life threatening?
You'd be surprised (or maybe not) how common this is. Over the past year, I've treated two patients who have done this. I've named it the "Plaxico Burris Maneuver". Neither one was life threatening, but both put a serious dent in the shooter/victim's street cred.
But if you shoot yourself in the testicles in the UK you go to prison for five years (h/t to PA State Cop who sent via email).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jul/14/ukguns
Well, there won't be any 'offspring' from that one, so I'd count it as a win for the gene pool... Bad enough to Mexican carry, even stupider to do it in front, and the topper is a pink pistol... He's definitely losing his man card on that one...
I think I'd rather be wearing a gorilla suit...
And NO, it was NOT a wadcutter.
Uh...you sure it wasn't?
Heh
Well what I get from this episode is that only girls should carry a pistol in their waistband. I think the giveaway was the color of the pistol. Remember boys, don't do this.
Groan, my 4 year old Zachary is fascinated by the various pink guns available and asks for one every time he sees one in Shotgun News or under glass at the gun store.
That boy worries me sometimes.
I really have no comment to add because you guys have covered them all ;) This was absolutely an awesome post as well as awesome comments, haha.
But at least he doesn't do it often! His lawyer said, "This was an isolated incident, an aberration. It was out of character".
Aren't we glad!
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