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Stupid person + gun + mouse = fun for wife
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:59 pm
by MD-2389
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-rev ... 63817.html
A mouse loose in a Somerset County house may have escaped injury early Tuesday morning, but a woman who lives there wasn't as fortunate.
State police at Somerset said 43-year-old Donald Eugene Rugg was attempting to shoot the rodent with a .22-caliber handgun inside the home he shares with 35-year-old Cathy Jo Harris, along Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township, shortly after midnight.
As he fired the weapon, Harris reportedly walked into the path of the discharged round and was struck in the right arm with birdshot.
Police said Harris was transported to Somerset Community Hospital by her 16-year-old daughter. A spokeswoman at the hospital said yesterday Harris was admitted and listed in stable condition.
State police said no charges will be filed against Rugg in the incident.
State police Cpl. Robert Clark said that while it's not against the law to discharge a weapon in a home,
police advise against it.
There were no telephone listings for Rugg or Harris, so attempts to contact him about the incident were unsuccessful.
Patti Dobranski can be reached at
pdobranski@tribweb.com.
Emphasis mine
Seriously though, what kind of an idiot would walk
in front of a weapon being aimed at something?! One has to wonder how many turnip trucks she fell off of....
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:10 pm
by Will Robinson
I don't know, I have what I think is a reasonable expectation of being able walk through my house without an idiot shooting at a rodent tagging me with friendly fire! But maybe her home enviroment is a little different than mine so I shall not pass judgment
Re: Stupid person + gun + mouse = fun for wife
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:28 pm
by Vindicator
MD-2389 wrote:along Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township
Says it all right there.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:43 pm
by woodchip
What Vinnie said. Hospital? Stable condition? Birdshot?
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:48 pm
by Lothar
and here I was holding back on saying anything about chicken bone road, not wanting to offend any closet rednecks who might be lurking...
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:08 pm
by Krom
I've shot a mouse outside the house before. One would have to be really stupid to shoot a mouse indoors, that would be quite a mess. I used a .22 rimfire rifle, we located bits of that mouse on the side of the house as much as 25 feet away from where it was.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:21 pm
by Liquid Fire
Gun + house = bullets in floor = either more mice getting in or a new rug
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:29 pm
by Mobius
Liquid Fire wrote:Gun + house = bullets in floor = either more mice getting in or a new rug
LMAO!
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:05 pm
by Mr. Perfect
Someone start photochopping that pic of MD with the gun.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:40 am
by Top Gun
This proves, once and for all, that western Pennsylvania is an entirely different country
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Re: Stupid person + gun + mouse = fun for wife
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:21 am
by Hattrick
Vindicator wrote:MD-2389 wrote:along Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township
Says it all right there.
My thoughts exactly
my choice for hunting barn mice/rats
the .22 cal of course
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:57 pm
by Robo
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:57 pm
by Robo
Double post.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:18 pm
by Ympakt
Who the f**** shoots at anything inside the house!?! Aside from maybe an intruder. What part of Hicksville were they from again? Was it a regular house or a trailer?
Food for thought:
If the WWE is in in town and a tornado goes through a trailer park, does anyone get hurt?
Re: Stupid person + gun + mouse = fun for wife
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:36 pm
by AceCombat
Hattrick wrote:Vindicator wrote:MD-2389 wrote:along Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township
Says it all right there.
My thoughts exactly
my choice for hunting barn mice/rats
the .22 cal of course
ill second that hatty
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:10 pm
by KompresZor
That does it!!! I'm moving out of this state
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:50 pm
by MD-2389
Mr. Perfect wrote:Someone start photochopping that pic of MD with the gun.
Maybe I should start a photochop thread when I find that pic again.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:08 pm
by DCrazy
Ympakt wrote:What part of Hicksville were they from again?
I'll have you know that
Hicksville is a major town of 40,000 on Long Island. I live there.
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:15 am
by Instig8
The awesomest thing I shot was a house fly... in flight... totally by accident with a semi-automatic .22 air pistol.
At first there was a fly. Then a 'splat', star-type effect, then there was no fly. u tell me.
Woot.
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:48 am
by roid
he is the one
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:29 am
by Ympakt
DCrazy wrote:I'll have you know that Hicksville is a major town of 40,000 on Long Island. I live there.
Wow, this story musta been all over the local news! Did you know these folks?
(j/k!) I fly over Hicksville around a half-dozen times a week when I'm working, look up at those little planes flying overhead, I'll be in one of them; just dont shoot!
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:42 pm
by MD-2389
[MS]Instig8 wrote:The awesomest thing I shot was a house fly... in flight... totally by accident with a semi-automatic .22 air pistol.
At first there was a fly. Then a 'splat', star-type effect, then there was no fly. u tell me.
Woot.
Heh, I decapitated a wasp in mid-air with a hunting knife once. Damn thing was alive for a good while too.
(No I didn't torture the damn thing, I cut its head off, and then walked off for a while...when I came back outside to go get something to eat, the damn thing was still crawling around on the ground. I just squashed it, and went about my business.)
