Man accidentally shot himself trying to kill mouse

[n2doc]

A Canadian man accidentally shot himself in the forehead while trying to kill a mouse with the butt of his rifle.

The man was reportedly intending to crush the rodent with the weapon at a camp on Anjigami Lake in Ontario, but didn't know the gun was loaded.

As such he got quite a shock when the gun fired, with the bullet grazing his forehead but luckily not causing too much damage.

Police say the man was admitted to and released from the hospital, before being charged with careless use of a firearm.

A spokesperson said: "He was very lucky." It's not known what happened to the mouse.

http://newslite.tv/2012/07/25/man-accidentally-shot-himself-1.html

[ileus]

1. Uh...stomping them is easier.

I stomped a mouse on my utility shed Tuesday.

[-..__...]

10. Agreed...

[TreasonousBastard]

2. The brain was easy to miss.

[struggle4progress]

3. For perspective, I should point out that clubbing small animals, with the grip of a loaded handgun

or the butt of a loaded rifle, is generally much safer that trying to smash the animals with a live grenade or live artillery shell

[gejohnston]

6. only if

the pin on the grenade is pulled and if the fuse is set on the artillery shell. When I did artillery, before I saw the light and went to the right recruiter the second time around, the fuse had to spin so many revolutions through the rifled tube before arming. I dropped a shell once loading one of these (the basket came unbuckled and dropped the round)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M110_howitzer

[Trunk Monkey]

13. I was in the last U.S. Army unit to field the M110 Howitzer

and had the privilege of firing the very last M110 round to go down range before they were removed from the inventory.

I still have the lanyard in my garage

[rrneck]

4. He overlooked certain formalities.

[Historic NY]

5. So how'd the mouse make out?

[bluedigger]

7. One of my neighbors shot himself clubbing a deer.

He was about 15, I guess. He had shot and downed his first deer and when he approached, it jumped a little. Instead of shooting it to finish it off, he clubbed it, and his rifle discharged and hit him in the leg. It hit him in the femur and took out a two inch section of bone. He was very lucky to survive - his dad got there right after - but spent about six months in Boston's Children's Hospital recovering. Needless to say, he had to wear a lift on that side to even his gait, and is effectively crippled the rest of his life.

[petronius]

8. That's why I never leave home without a concealed feline or two

In a proper and secure CCF holster, of course...

[PoliticAverse]

9. Rule 1 - all guns are loaded until proven otherwise. n/t

[pnwmom]

11. A clear candidate for the Darwin Award. n/t

[emilyg]

12. Karma.

[Remmah2]

14. Should have had a mouse gun.

The right tool for the right job.

Alternatly a concealed cat would have worked just as well.