Officer on Toilet Accidentally Fires Gun

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Officer on Toilet Accidentally Fires Gun

Strange News - AP

SAN ANTONIO - This is one story they'll be telling around the San Antonio Police Department for a long time. An off-duty officer was at a San Antonio auto auction house yesterday when nature called, a police spokesman said.

Officer Craig Clancy strolled to the appropriate facility and was lowering his trousers when his pistol fell from his waistband. When Clancy fumbled for the falling firearm, it went off, twice.

One of the bullets nicked a bit of floor tile into the leg of a man who was washing his hands nearby. That man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Police internal affairs is investigating.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20050421/ap_on_fe_st/bathroom_gunshot

oops...... :eek:

You know, after looking at that title again, I realize how obscene that sounds....
 
Accident? TWICE???????????

"No, your honor, I did NOT stab the man-it was an accident! I was just walking down the street cleaning my finger nails with my switchblade when he came running around a corner and right into my knife-seventeen times!"
 
Apparently, this sort of thing is not that uncommon. When the gun falls, your natural instinct is the grab at it in an attempt to keep it from hitting the floor. You grab, get a fingerful of trigger, and blam!

Mass Ayoob mentions this in one of his books and states that "you should never grab at a falling gun, that is why they have drop safteys." Makes sense to me and since Ayoob is dealing with cops quite often, I assume that the incidents he refers to are LEO related as well.
 
Yeah...quite true....though most cops I know either carry a duty weapon/smaller version of their duty weapon or a backup gun off duty. I'm one of the peculiar few who has somthing different altogether...(at times).
 
Seeing that old thread Peter - sad to see our dear friend Kentucky Rifle posting - and then at end, a post from Blackhawk (who incidentally, Eric Rohrbaugh hopes soon to call on and present him with his special edition gun made for him.)

''Faces'' from the past.
 
A good friend of mine was sitting on the toilet a few years back, messing with a Colt 45 auto, when he accidentally fired a round right between his feet :eek: Fortunately, since he was already sitting there, he didn't soil a pair of pants.
 
Coincidentally,

I usually carry a snubbie in my pocket but thought I'd try a IWB holster. The thing created a whole new set of problems when dropping trou for nature's callings. It kept flopping out of the waist band and onto the floor upside down, gun still in holster and was a real PIA to get straightened back out and where it belonged. I've since gone back to pocket carry. Thankfully, in my case, no shots were fired.

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Mass Ayoob mentions this in one of his books and states that "you should never grab at a falling gun, that is why they have drop safteys."
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Maybe it was heading straight into an unflushed toilet. :neener:
 
Reminds me of the story of a guy who hung his 1911 on the hook on the jon door. After he finished he went to grab the pistol off the hook. Seems the safety had slipped off and when he started to grab the gun it bounced between his hand and the hook more than a few times. :banghead:
 
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