Woman kneecaps herself and nearly castrates a friend while shooting at mice in her trailer
Ah well, here’s another story from the shallow end of the gene pool:
A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person. Sheriff’s officials say the 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley. But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman’s kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man’s groin before ending up in his coin pocket.
You often hear about trailer trash but less often of people who trash their trailers, while trying to shoot mice with a .44-caliber Magnum revolver. It’s like a very weird movie, ‘When Dirty Harry met Tom & Jerry’ or something. Still, even Tom wouldn’t be clumsy enough to kneecap himself and almost castrate a fellow cat while trying to shoot Jerry – but then I don’t think many cartoon characters have ever won the Darwin Award.
I suppose this mental Mendocino County woman should call herself lucky that she can still hear the laughter wherever she now shows herself but I don’t suppose she will appreciate this fact – or will ever quite feel the same whenever she hears that little speech Clint Eastwood made, that ended with that now famous question, ‘Do you feel lucky, punk?’
Still, if I were one those trailer mice I think I would move, however bad a shot that madwoman proved to be. Someone who is dumb enough to use a .44-caliber Magnum revolver to go after a few rodents, might very well decide to set fire to her own trailer (and any unfortunate house guest) in order to smoke them out. That she might very well burn herself to death in the process will not be much of a comfort when you’re a bit of mouse roast yourself.
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