Ready, Fire, Aim!
A hospital emergency room summoned sheriff’s deputies, as required for all gunshot wound cases. Ethan Bennett, 36, of Monroe, Ore., admitted his was self-inflicted — but it was an accident. He had been trying to shoot a squirrel, he told deputies, and before he could pull the trigger on his .22 rifle, the animal ran up his leg. Then he pulled the trigger, and shot himself in the foot. The squirrel survived, and Bennett drove himself to the hospital. “The squirrel scared him,” an investigator said. Bennett refused to speak with reporters. (RC/Corvallis Gazette-Times) ...Yeah, pretty much the smartest thing he could do by then would be to keep his mouth shut.Original Publication Date: 18 December 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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