Man Tries To Shoot Mouse - Hits Girlfriend Instead

[matcom]

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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.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_263817.html

[Misunderestimator]

1. "Chicken Bone Road, in Lower Turkeyfoot Township"

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. "Chicken Bone Road"? "Lower Turkeyfoot Township"? Come on!!

That can't be real

[Bunny]

4. Lower Turkeyfoot Township is definitely real.

I've been there. Chicken Bone Rd.? That's pretty funny and almost certainly real! :)

[demnan]

3. This tragedy could have been averted

had the couple been owned by a good cat or two.

[auburngrad82]

5. He was exercising his second amendment rights

to get drunk and endanger everyone near him. At least the mouse survived.

[Kelli372]

6. Amen to that!

[Robb]

7. I feel their pain (although hers is likely worse!!)

Fortunately I live with predators. The mouse thing here is the worst it's been in 30 years. I found one dead behind the fridge; all I can figure is the huskies chased it under there and it died of starvation. Irony, being mere inches from all the food he'd ever have needed.

...Wonder where the mouse was that she got winged in the arm. :shrug: