Monday, September 19, 2005

Gun Owner of the Year Nominee

Mike Royko used to publish a column of really, really bad gun stories. Here is, without a doubt, a leading nominee for Gun Owner of the Year: a man who was beating his dog with a shotgun was himself shot when the dog's paw reportedly caught the trigger.

I don't remember, though, if Royko had an international division: it happened in Bulgaria. But in the modern age, global embarrassment awaits any who so distinctively screw up.

2 comments:

Orac said...

Sounds like an urban legend to me. I've heard several variations of this one. Although I'd love to see such an idiot get his just deserts, I find it very odd that the story didn't mention the name of the hunter. Why didn't it?

My urban legend antennae are twitching. This may be true, but I tend to doubt it.

Ahistoricality said...

I've heard several similar stories (including one in an old Mike Royko column I've got somewhere), and the physics of it is a bit incomprehensible. But I don't read Bulgarian, so it's bit hard to go looking for "closer to the source" sources.

My antennae twitched a bit, but at least we can strongly suggest that beating a dog with the butt end of a rifle is a bad idea, right?