Man shots himself in groin in robbery attempt

[CreekDog]

KOKOMO, Ind. - Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store. A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry Tuesday morning demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes.

Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured.

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A short time later, police found Derrick Kosch, 25, at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/robber_shoots_self;_ylt=AskFTAPa6oBkbvdACyxxN2kDW7oF

What some people won't give for a cigarette! :rofl:

[Lou Syffire]

1. ow

gunshot wound to the right testicle.
Clearly this man should have studied more about the robbery thing.
If you do it, don't use a weapon, and get money from defenseless types who can't figure outhow you got their money in the first place.

Like a health insurance VP

[uppityperson]

2. "give me the cigarettes or the testes get it", worked in Blazing Saddles.

[lutefisk]

3. Not to be presumptuous, but that's not what the decocker is for.

Decocker

Traditional Double-Action (DA/SA) semi-automatic pistols are designed to be carried with the hammer down (De-cocked) on a chambered round, with or without a safety engaged. The pistol is considered safe in this state even without a manual safety engaged as the trigger requires significant force over a longer travel to both cock and fire the weapon than when the hammer is cocked. However, the act of chambering a round on such a weapon automatically cocks the hammer. In some designs, it is necessary to hold the hammer and carefully control its movement to the down position while pulling the trigger, in order to avoid an unintentional discharge.

A Decocker or decocking lever allows the hammer to be dropped on a live cartridge without discharging it, via disengaging, retracting, blocking or covering the firing pin. This eliminates the need to control the fall of the hammer, although since all mechanisms can fail it is still necessary to keep the muzzle of the gun pointed in a safe direction while operating the decocker.

A decock/safety adds a safety function to the decock lever. Two popular variants exist: one allows the user to decock by moving the switch one way from a neutral position, or engage the safety on a cocked weapon by moving the switch the other way (thus allowing the user to carry the firearm "cocked and locked"); the second decocks the weapon when the safety is engaged (which prevents such carry, but is generally safer as both the safety and the double-action trigger pull lower the chance of accidental discharge).

Examples of a decocking lever are many of the Sig Sauer line of pistols such as the Sig P226. The earliest use of a cocking/decocking lever is the Sauer 38H from 1938. Ruger until 2007 manufactured "decock-only" variants of its P-series pistols, and has always incorporated the decocking feature into its manual safeties on these pistols; moving the switch to safe decocks the weapon as well as engaging the safety mechanism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_(firearm)

[CreekDog]

7. do you understand the irony of your post?

do ya?

:spray:

[lutefisk]

10. Would it be ironic if I didn't?

I'm often intentionally ironic, but I suppose it would be even more ironic if I missed the real irony... or something like that.:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

12. Stop, before I burst an aneurysm

This is hilarious!

:rofl:

[havocmom]

17. Just say it: The idiot went off half cocked

[Xipe Totec]

4. Robbery is a groin problem in America

for some people...

[CreekDog]

6. eeeegaaaahhhh!

:rofl:

[quip]

5. And it all began with this thought: "I'd give my right nut for cigarette right now"

Too bad he was too incompetent to qualify for a Darwin nomination! :rofl:

[CreekDog]

8. i thought the left one was more valuable

because that's the one always offered up for pricey things.

:shrug:

[quip]

9. You're right, but since the dumbass shot off his right one....

It didn't really fit. Maybe he was aiming for the left and hit the right? :shrug:

[KamaAina]

11. Darwin Award!

You do not need to actually die from your own stupidity to capture the coveted Darwin. All that is required is that you remove yourself from the gene pool.

Of course, he does still have the left one...

[Xipe Totec]

13. Friendly fire

he shot his own soldiers.

[edbermac]

14. Can't stand guys who go off half-cocked.

:7

[CreekDog]

15. That took ball

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

16. If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will shoot themselves in the groin

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Knock knock.

Who's there?

Kosch.

Kosch who?

Gesundheit!


Sorry, stolen from Babylon 5.

[CreekDog]

20. not related to the OP!

alert allllllerrrrrtttttt :spank:

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. That's his last name, from the OP.

:shrug:

Don't get testy.

[CreekDog]

22. i'm so testy

:grr:

:pals:

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. You're not so crotchety after all.

:hug:

[CreekDog]

24. i have multiple personalities

:grouphug:

[Robeson]

19. Nuts!

[lutefisk]

25. kick . . . (in the groin)...n/t

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. This is made all the funnier by the mistake in the subject that is not fixable.

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

28. Oops I just saw that

hahah :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Groin larceny

:popcorn: