It looked like pizza

fissionproducts · Aug 13, 2004

From the Police Blotter of the Lincoln Journal Start Friday August 13th 2004

Man ticketed after shooting self

A 27-year-old Lincoln man accidentally shot himself with a .357 caliber revolver he had in a holster attached to the waistband of his pants, Lincoln Police Officer Katherine Finnell said Thursday. Police ticketed Stephen Fitts for discharging a weapon in the city. He was treated at Bryan LGH Medical Center West for injuries caused by the bullet that went in-and-out of his left hip and into a couch. He told police he was sitting on the couch at a friends house when the trigger of the revolver caught on something, perhaps his jacket, and fired. He looked at the couch, according to police reports and saw what looked like pizza. Then reports said, he realized it was his backside â€œhe had blown apart.â€

Jordan · Aug 13, 2004

Revenue Officers

Well, since he got a ticket he'll probably think twice before doin' THAT again.

Now if they could figure out some way to fine you for slamming your finger in the car door..

"Your Local Law Enforcers: It's all About The Revenue"

PaladinVC · Aug 13, 2004

Sounds like time for a better holster. Poor guy. Dumb guy, but even more pitiable for that. I tell you what, though: If I ever get a bullet wound, I want it to look like pizza. Nothing like a little levity in an otherwise grave situation.

keyhole · Aug 13, 2004

Ouch! There went my appetite.

aguyindallas · Aug 13, 2004

Thats gonna leave a mark!

SodiumBenzoate · Aug 13, 2004

Oddly enough, one of my friends saw someone shot and killed by the police in NYC, and said the same thing.

mcmoyer · Aug 13, 2004

Yikes...there's a visual for ya.

R.H. Lee · Aug 13, 2004

Police ticketed Stephen Fitts for discharging a weapon in the city. He was treated at Bryan LGH Medical Center West for injuries caused by the bullet that went in-and-out of his left hip and into a couch.

I take that to mean the bullet penetrated his left buttcheek. So the fat looked like mozzarella and the blood looked like sauce. YUM. And hasn't the guy got enough problems without getting a ticket too?

TimRB · Aug 13, 2004

"Sounds like time for a better holster."

Agreed. He needs a holster that has one of those little straps across the hammer. I *presume* he really caught the hammer on something, and not the trigger. I also presume that nobody in his right mind would holster a cocked revolver, especially when the hammer would fall on a loaded chamber.

Tim

joe sixpack · Aug 14, 2004

Hmmm, I wonder if he has a new descriptive term for "pizza".
"It looks like me arse!"

cheers, ab

Shanghai McCoy · Aug 14, 2004

Cheesy remark ab...

Wildalaska · Aug 14, 2004

And hasn't the guy got enough problems without getting a ticket too?

How else is he gonna learn not to shoot himself in the butt? :neener:

WildnootherwayAlaska

Weimadog · Aug 14, 2004

It only went through his left hip an buttocks?

It looks like he only made a half-assed effort.

Keeping it on the High Road, remember
Rule one ...
heck, try to follow all the Firearms safety rules.

carpettbaggerr · Aug 14, 2004

Now I'm starvin'....

hillkillr · Aug 15, 2004

Is this article real? How about a link to the story or at least what newspaper or Tv staion it came from.

0luke1 · Aug 15, 2004

If the fat looked like mozzarella and the blood looked like sauce, what did the brains look like - one anchovy?

BryanP · Aug 15, 2004

Here's the web site of the Lincoln Journal Star -

http://www.journalstar.com/

I can't find a record of the story but they may just be a bit behind, so to speak.

Old Dog · Aug 15, 2004

"... the trigger of the revolver caught on something." ?? Give me a break. That was his story to the cops. This inexperienced guy was playing with a loaded handgun and got stupid, plain and simple. And what is it with the newspaper or TV reporters? How many times do we have to read or hear about accidental shootings where "the gun just went off?" Why don't the stories ever say, "the stupid person pulled the trigger with his/her finger?"

WonderNine · Aug 15, 2004

Mmmm, I could go for a vegetarian lover's pizza with thin crust right about now...

DMF · Aug 15, 2004

Revenue Officers

Well, since he got a ticket he'll probably think twice before doin' THAT again.

Now if they could figure out some way to fine you for slamming your finger in the car door..

"Your Local Law Enforcers: It's all About The Revenue"

How nice that this idiot shoots himself and you use it to bash the police. It's all about revenue? Maybe, considering these cops were diverted from other duties to respond to this ass clown self initiated emergency, you know diverted from other things TAXPAYERS want them to be doing. Also, consider that local EMTs probably also had to respond. Why should the taxpayers have to foot the bill for this tool?

But I guess you don't want to miss any and all opportunities to turn a thread into a cop bashing thread.

WonderNine · Aug 15, 2004

Sheesh some people.....act like you personally insulted them if you say something about cops. Now, it's the non-cops who take this attitude that really scare me.

Why should the taxpayers have to foot the bill for this tool?

Like he said, the guy's got enough problems already. There's no reason to be bitter about wasted tax dollars. If you really felt that way you should have truck bombed the Capitol building long ago.

444 · Aug 15, 2004

"If you really felt that way you should have truck bombed the Capitol building long ago."

IMO that was really extreme, uncalled for, and WAY off The High Road.

WonderNine · Aug 15, 2004

IMO that was really not to be taken seriously.

I should start putting a disclaimer in my sig.

444 · Aug 15, 2004

My Bad.

I guess it is a sign of the times.

WonderNine · Aug 15, 2004

I guess it is a sign of the times.

Don't worry, George W. Bush and the Republicans will save us from today's immoral, degenerate youth.

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