Mouse gun thread---Sorta

[KI.W.]

Very common in USA.
Old lady was shootin in her own mouth. Uder pillow was asthma pump and Baby Browning.
A body was demonstrateting new gun for girl friend. His pants was smokig when the ambulance came.........
Mayby you need tighter gun control, mayby not. It isn´t my business.

 

[unspellable]

This sort of thing isn't restricted to guns ...

At a place I used to work we had a press. In front of the press was a wide four inch high platform with a prominent sign on each side saying, "One preson only on platform." The platform was surrounded by yellow stripes painted on the floor. Activating the press required pushing two large buttons about eighteen inches to either side. Then a plastic curtain would come down first and stop the press if it hit an object. You guessed it, our brilliant operator lost a finger tip in it. It required the help of a second genius to do it.

You can't make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenious.

 

[Pocket9]

Here's what probably happened

She probably saw the mouse, freaked and threw the gun at the mouse as hard as she could. The rest is history....

 

[Packman]

I can't see anything wrong here... A .44 magnum revolver to kill mice in a trailer...? Is there some other way...?
Marty

Only thing I see wrong is she missed. .44 mag vs. mouse? Close enough oughta be good enough.

 

[Dain Bramage]

Right quick off the top of my head I can't think of a 44 mag revolver that doesn't have a tansfer bar or hammer block. There may be one out there but it wouldn't include a S&W, Dan Wesson, Colt, Ruger, etc.

Could have been an old model Blackhawk.

More likely, Old Grandad or Jim Beam pulled the trigger.

 

[AJ Dual]

I agree. My guess is she had the revolver cocked because the mouse is a 'tricky shot' and somehow startled, dropped it, made a grab, and pulled the trigger on it's light SA setting.

 

[unspellable]

My own brand of stupidity but S&W came through

Long ago in my foolish youth we would hunt jackrabbits at night by chasing them with a pickup and shooting from the back. (Any way you could get a jack was consdiered fair, helicopters, nets, dynamite, machine guns, what ever.) The truck stalled with the rear wheels in a ditch. I was drawing a bead with a rifle while my wife was drawing a bead with a S&W when the driver popped the clutch and we both went appetite over tea kettle. My wife cracked her tail bone on the junk in the pickup bed while I gave her a split lip and two loose teeth with the rife butt. All through this she had presence of mind to keep the revolver pointed up. But on sorting things out we found the hammer down, the only explaination being that she tripped the trigger but let off fast enough for the hammer block to rise before the hammer got all the way down.

It took me a loooong time to live down hitting the wife in the kisser with a rifle butt...

 

[win71]

From the other thread

i am dumbfounded as to why someone would use a .44 magnum for rodent control. there are many safer and more effective means. even if it were an effective method, i wouldn't expose myself to the hearing damage of firing indoors unless it were truly necessary. this doesn't qualify...

Apparently you've never been to Potter Valley. .44 mags are perfectly safe to fire in a trailer. The old tires on the roof usually prevent mishaps...........

 

[Bart Noir]

It took me a loooong time to live down hitting the wife in the kisser with a rifle butt...

Aw, just Redneck foreplay.....

It does strain a marriage somewhat to use the bayonet end, however.

Bart Noir

 

[gopguy]

The good news is the mouse is now deaf, has learned his lesson and will not return to that trailer.

Has anybody seen Ratatouille?

Yeah, my kids loved that movie. lol

 

[subierex]

A pic of said mouse ? ....

 

[MakAttak]

The good news is the mouse is now deaf, has learned his lesson and will not return to that trailer.

Three deaf mice,
Three deaf mice....

 

[Surefire]

Update to the story:

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080710/NEWS/130817035/1350&title=Charges_for__mouse_shooter__

The woman may be charged with a crime...

 

[TallPine]

Was this the mouse-gun that roared ?

 

[gtmerkley]

"theres no mouse guns its all in your head"

 

[Surefire]

The plot thickens...

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...Potter_Valley_mice_shooter_won_t_face_charges

Not guilty by reason of stupidty.

 

[MakAttak]

Potter Valley mice shooter won't face charges

By Glenda Anderson
THE PRESS Democrat


Published: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 5:36 a.m.
A Potter Valley woman who wounded herself while attempting to kill mice with a .44 Magnum revolver won't face criminal charges, authorities said Thursday.

The Mendocino County District Attorney's Office had been considering whether to charge Debra Due, 43, with negligent discharge of a firearm.

"There's insufficient criminal intent," Chief Deputy District Attorney Jill Ravitch said Thursday. "Sometimes incredibly stupid things don't amount to criminal acts."

The shooting occurred in the early hours of July 3 as Due tried to kill mice in a travel trailer on her property for a female tenant who was moving in, said Sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb.

Due, who was intoxicated, went to the trailer about 1:20 a.m. with her gun holstered under her left arm "because she knows there's a mouse problem," Smallcomb said.

But as she drew the revolver, it slipped from her hand, hit the floor and fired, Smallcomb said.

The bullet went through Due's right kneecap, then struck a set of keys hanging from the belt loop of a Clearlake man who was helping with the move. The bullet glanced off the keys and tore a hole in the man's pants, Smallcomb said.

The bullet traveled between the man's pants and undershorts, grazing his groin before ending up in his pocket, from where it was recovered for evidence, Smallcomb said.

"He's really lucky. If it didn't hit him in the key chain, who knows what would have happened," he said.

Due was taken to Ukiah Valley Medical Center for treatment and later discharged.

Apparently no mice were harmed, Smallcomb said.

Due, who also is listed as a Windsor resident, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

The road leading to her rugged property and the homes of several neighbors, just west of the Lake County line near Highway 20, was blocked Thursday by a locked, wrought-iron gate lined on top with small American flags.

Smallcomb said there may be a lesson from the accident: "I guess you don't drink and shoot mice at the same time," he said.

Article from above link.

I will note one thing:

Due, who was intoxicated, went to the trailer about 1:20 a.m. with her gun holstered under her left arm "because she knows there's a mouse problem," Smallcomb said.

Most of these "gun accidents" seem to have a high correlation to "drinking."

I'm starting to wonder if we should crusade against alcohol whenever someone tauts the numbers of gun "accidents"...

Hmm... has anyone run the total numbers to include alcohol induced gun and other types of "accidents"? (including drunk driving).

 

[Surefire]

Ironic, California is one of the most liberal, gun hating states in the nation.

RESPONSIBLE gun owners are treated like dog poop.

Yet, logically challenged folk, as this woman appears to be, and criminals are often given a slap on the wrist when they use guns in an irresponsible or criminal way.