Courtesy of Raw Story:
A Kentucky police officer is recovering from injuries after accidentally shooting himself in an elevator, authorities said over the weekend.
Cincinnati police told WCPO that Erlanger Officer Darryl Jouett was heading back to his car after having dinner with his wife when the incident occurred on Saturday.
In video released on Monday, Jouett can be seen getting in an elevator with a woman. He holds a box with one hand while attempting to adjust his pistol with his other hand. After fumbling with the pistol several times, it appears to discharge into his stomach.
The woman in the elevator immediately covers her ears while Jouett and his pistol fall to the floor. After being stunned for a moment, Jouett’s quick thinking companion grabs her cell phone to call for help.
I have watched this a couple of time now, but I still cannot figure out exactly why he pulled out his gun while standing next to a civilian on an elevator.
Well I can certainly see how having more guns in more places makes all of us more safe.
....why he pulled out his gun while standing next to a civilian on an elevator.
ReplyDeletePerhaps he was showing off. (If he'd pulled out his other "gun"
she might have shot HIM.)
He was lucky she was there.
I like that she had the presence of mind to go back for her purse before the elevator took off UP or DOWN.
Hope they don't develop tinnitus from the gun shot noise.
Ah - shooting yourself in your elevator -- now that's gotta hurt.
ReplyDeleteAnd was he drinking during dinner....
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely O/T but you have to read "Cheers and Jeers" in todays' Daily Kos. Go to the second page and read the last sentence of the post about New Mexicos' state insect. Talks about scarah.
ReplyDelete....CHEERS to the Land of Enchantment. Happy 103rd birthday to our 47th state: New Mexico! Capital: Santa Fe. Square mileage: 121,593. Home state of John Madden, Demi Moore, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Unser and---amazingly enough---beloved Kossack Land of Enchantment. The state's official insect, by the way, is the tarantula hawk wasp, which apparently flew through the gates of hell to get here:
DeleteTarantula Hawk wasp, the state insect of New Mexico.
"You tarantulas get offa my lawn!"
When a female is ready to lay her eggs, she seeks out a tarantula and injects it with paralyzing venom. She drags the tarantula to a burrow and stuffs it down the hole, then lays her eggs on top of the paralyzed spider.
Several days later the eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the still living tarantula.
Or as they call that up in Alaska: Sarah Palin on a bender.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/06/1355670/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Tuesday
Um, rookie? I don't understand how that could happen if not an inept rookie. Guns have safties.
ReplyDeleteAnd the citizens are at the mercy of the inept rookies. Also at the mercy of every armed mentally disturbed person the NRA can get supplied with firearms.
DeleteNot a rookie at all, he has close to 20 yrs on the police force. And most weapons have safeties, not safties.
DeleteNope, not a 20 yrs under his belt, make that 25 yrs, so definitely no rookie.
DeleteDarwin awards nomination footage.
ReplyDeleteNice job by the woman who kept her cool. Very nice.
I think this year's award belongs to Sarah Palin who brought Jill-gate on herself by posting those dreadful photos of Trig standing on the dog.
DeleteBeaglemom
Well, the year is young. I think the competition will be especially fierce in 2015!
DeleteGuns can be safely handled, but guns can be cocked and chambered and have an easy trigger. Stupidity at it's finest.
ReplyDeleteWas that his wife(who he'd just had dinner with)? Why would he show a stranger his gun on an elevator?
ReplyDeleteTo show someone what a big man he is.
DeleteGuns, guns, guns
ReplyDeleteOpen Carry Group In Texas To Manufacture Firearms At State Capitol
http://freakoutnation.com/2015/01/what-could-go-wrong-open-carry-group-in-texas-set-to-manufacture-firearms-at-state-capitol/
Hunter Shoots Fellow Hunter In Both Legs, Mistakes Him For A Deer
http://freakoutnation.com/2015/01/hunter-shoots-fellow-hunter-in-both-legs-mistakes-him-for-a-deer/
White Combative Open Carry Activist Is Arrested, Screams Obscenities At Police, And Lives
http://freakoutnation.com/2015/01/watch-white-combative-open-carry-activist-is-arrested-screams-obscenities-at-police-and-lives/
While thinking there’s an intruder in his home, man accidentally shoots himself
http://freakoutnation.com/2014/01/while-thinking-theres-an-intruder-in-his-home-man-accidentally-shoots-himself/
Another "responsible gun owner."
ReplyDeleteYears ago there was a case in Maine where a hunter killed a woman hanging laundry in her backyard. He mistook her for a deer despite the scope on his weapon. He was not found guilty of any crime by a jury of his peers because she was wearing white mittens, for which she probably would have been found guilty had she lived. Oh the insanity of guns!
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
never heard of this case, but quickly found the story by googling it. Wow, so sad! Appreciate you bringing it to my attention. (In case anyone else wants to read about it, Karen Wood is the victim's name.
DeleteWhy can't any gun owners, and this police officers like this, refuse to see a loaded gun - outside of it's harness, being waved about in the air, with people standing around, will always accidentally go off. It's like picking up dynamite and waving it around.
ReplyDeleteHow many accidents have to happen before people realize these things need to be handled like an explosive waiting to go off?
I think people need to be screened for IQ before getting one in their hands.
Man what a dumb ass. The lady is lucky she wasn't hit by a bullet. At least this time a cop shot himself instead of someone else.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I live in the Bush? Because its a hell of a lot less dangerous than living in the city nowadays! If I confront a bear in the woods, I pretty much know how the bear will react. If I am in a boat and the water gets rough, I have my life jacket and know my boat. But walking around in the city? You never know what will set off some nut job with a weapon - or you that you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
ReplyDeleteHere's a couple of doozies for ya G!
ReplyDeleteChurches Make Members Fight Each Other To Prove Their Manhood Because ‘Men Are Made For Combat’ (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/05/churches-make-members-fight-each-other-to-prove-their-manhood-because-men-are-made-for-combat-video/
Pat Robertson Says Non-Religious Children Should Be Beaten Until They Respect Christian Beliefs (VIDEO)
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/05/pat-robertson-says-non-religious-children-should-be-beaten-until-they-respect-christian-beliefs-video/
A. Kentucky. I would have guessed Florida, but Kentucky makes sense.
ReplyDeleteB. Police officer? They still train these guys, right? (That's a totally fair question in light of recent events).
C. Why take a gun to dinner? Gotta kill your own cow?
D. Safety, anyone?
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
...and Wayne LaPierre sadly says, "if only the woman had had a gun, too."
ReplyDeletehe eats; therefore he hunts [himself].
ReplyDeleteDid you watch it a few times because you were laughing so hard it hurt? I'm sorry, but that was the funniest thing I ever saw. The woman, thinking quickly on her feet, calls for help, then forgets her purse, book and phone, runs back in while wounded cop limps out of elevator, Woman retreats her belongings and says "Exit stage left, and in a hurry even" LMAO Feets don't fail me now.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should turn this into an advertisement against the gun lobby. All joking aside, I hope he's learned and doesn't have another accident, I don't think my sides can take much more heavy laughing. It could have been much worse, he got lucky, damn lucky.