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“During a traffic stop late one night I screwed my .40cal into the ear of a young man….”
To paraphrase Forrest Gump: Message Boards are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”
They are definitely excellent entertainment-portions of which should grace this blog more frequently.
Today’s submission comes from a Yahoo Group called “Snubby” for snubnosed revolvers.
Negligent discharge because of operator failure to perform proper and frequent equipment inspections.
Wear marks in the various pictures indicate this holster should have been removed from service or refitted sometime previous to this ND (discharge).
Another lucky camper.
As Sgt. Esterhaus famously said on Hill St. Blues: ” Let’s be careful out there!”
Tantalizing Excerpt:
The victim says:
“What the hell was that?!?” she said. It took me a half a second to realize that my gun had just gone off…on my hip…in its holster.
My wife and I had just finished breakfast at our favorite café and got into the car.
Me being the passenger, I rotated my torso to the left to fasten my seatbelt like I always do. When I straightened again, my Glock 19 discharged, blowing a 9mm hole through my pants, underwear, the leather seat and bottom of the car’s door frame.
The bullet nicked my hip, but the wound is nothing a bandage couldn’t cover
Okay, all you Major Caudill Fans, here is a reformated version of the original article by the original author-one Marko Kloos.
Again I admire the spunk of open carry advocates.
But I do wish they would be better prepared for their (inevitable) encounters.
These Peace Officers decided to conduct a “felony stop” which gives them wide latitude in the use of force whether they are right or wrong.
This kid could have gotten killed.
I assume the rifles are loaded with blanks and not ball ammo because otherwise the guy in the beret is one lucky soldier!
Bonus points for slinging fixed bayonets around without slicing up any uniforms.
Build your own steam punk raygun for those times when nothing else will do….
(A John Jacob H Commentary)
Frank W. James notes the nuclear power hysteria emanating from the Japanese debacle seems to be generated by a cadre of anonymous commentators. CLICK LINK HERE
I am not sure if I qualify as hysterical enough or anonymous enough for Mr. James purpose but I certainly number myself as among those who always believed nuclear power was essentially a niche technology most useful in limited applications.
Send an aircraft carrier around the world three or four times without refueling? Nuclear is definitely the way to go.
Go under a polar ice cap in a submarine? Nuclear is clearly the technology of choice.
Travel to Pluto and beyond with a robot satellite? Definitely only the best onboard nuclear power plant will do.
But it is doubtful even the perfection of the holy grail of “cold fusion” will ever efficiently power our vehicles- planes, trains or automobiles.
Certainly land based nuclear fission power plants along with their eco-wacko cousins-wind turbine farms- share one mutual fatal flaw: they are central command-and-control facilities dependent on a small corps of highly trained, highly paid technicians whose main goal in life is to make sure you get a bill every month for their service.
