Cass County Sheriff's officials are investigating an early morning shooting in the Marietta area.
According to officials with the sheriff's department, they are investigating a possible accidental shooting that happened just before 3 a.m., Thursday in the 27,000 block of Highway 77. The man involved told deputies he was shooting at an armadillo and the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the head.
You know every once in a while you come across a story that you know could ONLY happen in Texas.
This is one of those stories.
I guess the only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun is armor formed by plates of dermal bone covered in relatively small, overlapping epidermal scales.
Take that NRA!
If you have never seen the sleeper hit Bernie with Jack Black, I highly highly recommend this. a great dark comedy.
ReplyDeleteThe armadillo gun thingy made me think of this movie as it is a key part of the movie's plot......
That is such a good movie and it really happened! Bernie now lives in Austin in the garage apartment of the movies director!
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He was paroled??
DeleteWell......his "parole" was purchased. Welcome to TEXAS!
DeleteTexasMel
Kewl!!! The jerk confesses to murdering his meal ticket, stuffing her corpse in a freezer, embezzling millions if $$ from her and he's a free man living in Austin. Yay! So glad I left that hellhole after 7 long years. Houston is much better and sensibly liberal than pseudo-progressive Austin. #justice
DeleteAn armadillo once fell in love with my husband. I know they have feelings but I didn't know they were badass.
ReplyDeleteGO Team Armadillo!
ReplyDeleteLOL!
DeleteTexas is trying to top Florida in the wacky stories race.
ReplyDeleteBy this afternoon, this shooting will have resulted from Obama's sneaky-assed (Black) invasion of Texas and will reveal that part of the strategy of Jade Helm is to co-opt Texas wildlife.
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As a southern Arizonan, I want to express my sincere gratitude to New Mexico for keeping Texas and Oklahoma from being any closer to us than they are.
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In case you haven't seen it yet, this article from The Nation sheds a lot of light on the resistance to the Iran nuclear deal: It's Not A Nuclear-Armed Iran That Israel and Saudi Arabia Really Fear.
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This one, also: Inside the Effort to Kill the Iran Deal
I thought Armadillos were dangerous only because they carry the Leprosy infection. Who knew they were tough enough to deflect a bullet AND hit someone with it? Multi talented little "hillbilly speed bump", eh?
ReplyDeleteTexas is so bad even the armadillo are leaving!! I have driven from KC to Dallas twice recently and have seen dead armadillo road kill in Kansas and Oklahoma on the highways.
ReplyDeleteAnother slow news day on the dumbest blog on the net.
ReplyDeleteI wish you a very elegant and Southern SCREW YOU
DeleteTexasMel
So what does that say about you?
DeleteYeah Gryphen! Get off your ass and Faux us up some news.
DeleteSo you wanna talk about Bristol?
DeleteBristol Palin is a tramp who may not even know who Cletus the Fetus's daddy is.
That's all you need to know.
Someone pee in your Cheerios, 6:52 AM?
DeleteHey, it isn't Gryph's fault if the Palins don't have a drunken brawl every.single.day. Sheesh.
DeleteTexasMel - it is still hit outside so get back to your job selling ice cream sandwiches on the drag, dumbass!
DeleteAnd yet you keep coming back and commenting. Sometimes we need a break from the frightful images of momma and daughters crusty parts. Wonder why we haven't seen any knocked up photos? Maybe slipped off to Canada for a quick abortion and they are still cooking up the tragic miscarriage story?
ReplyDeleteIn case you haven't noticed, the only posts that draw in readers and comments are those that concern the Palins.
DeleteObviously you don't read any better than you spew. There are plenty of posts here not about the pustulent Palin's that engender commentary. Like this one for example was humming along just fine until you inserted your useless commentary
DeleteDespite your obsession with all things Palin, Gryphen DOES post other stories of interest and covers many topics that are informative and interesting. Think of it as an added bonus.
DeleteAnita why don't you ease up on the winecoolers and get yourself a "Goodwin" for a change. You'll feel much better. <3
Delete6:52 If this is the dumbest blog on the net, what does it say about you when you comment?
ReplyDeleteNow we know what to make bullet proof vests out of, with the added bonus of revenge
ReplyDeleteStrap on an armadillo: organic, sustainable, cheap. And cute, if a little hairy.
Delete@anon 8:02am
DeleteExcept for the chance of contracting leprosy.
Yes Texas, Darwinism is real !
ReplyDeleteSounds like everyone needs an armadillo. A good man with an armadillo can stop a bad man with a gun.
ReplyDeleteOT, but still hunting-related(!):
ReplyDeletewww.npr.org/sectons/thetwo-way/2015/07/31/428170154/zimbabwe-official-calls-for-extradition-of-american-lion-hunter-walter-palmer
Certainly made my morning!
Wild Tortoise (and enthusiastic armadillo fan)
Cecil's brother Jericho has been shot and killed.
DeleteJericho is not dead!
DeleteAlso I posted on another thread, the doctor was not happy with illegally butchering Cecil, he wanted to kill an elephant with at least a 63 lb tusk.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe
Despite reports that Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho had been shot dead by a poacher, a field researcher at Hwange Lion Research said on Saturday: “He looks alive and well.” Another conservation worker said the lion had been seen with a female earlier in the day, “probably mating”.
Brent Stapelkamp put the collar on Jericho and was monitoring his data on Saturday. Stapelkamp told the Guardian he was confident that Jericho is “alive and well”.
“Nothing looks untoward. It looks like he’s been moving around all day and in fact he sent his last points at six minutes past eight our time,” he said.
Stapelkamp said he would be checking in on the data again at 10.06pm local time. “Certainly, I’ve been asked to go and look for him tomorrow morning so I will confirm he is alive and send pictures to the world,” Staplekamp said.
Trevor Lane of the Bhejane Trust, a wildlife conservation group that works with Hwange national park, said in an email to the Guardian that Jericho had been seen with a female, “probably mating”. Lane added that parks were investigating another lion that was shot on 2 July, though that animal was not collared nor with a pride.
Drew Abrahamson, a wildlife photographer, said on Facebook Jericho had been sending out “normal collar movement” and posted an image showing the satellite information.
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF) said on Facebook earlier on Saturday that Cecil’s brother, Jericho, was shot on Saturday at 4pm. “We are absolutely heart broken,” the statement said.
“I think this type of misinformation is characteristic of that particular source,” Stapelkamp said.
Stephen Long, who also works for Bhejane Trust and lives in the western end of the Hwange national park, far from where Jericho holds territory, said in an email: “ZCTF has the same level of credibility as the National Enquirer.”
I thought armadillos were the state animal of Texas AND that they were protected.
ReplyDeleteWhat an aim this gun toting guy has!! He had to figure out exactly the trajectory and angle of deflection provided by the ringed armor of an armadillo, to make the bullet ricochet to hit his own head. The guy must be a genius at geometry or a liar who accidentally shot himself in the noggin and doesn't want people to know.
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