Sheriff’s Deputy Hospitalized After Accidentally Shooting Himself In Leg

CBS LA ^ | April 16, 2014 5:01 PM | N/A

[gitmo]

A Riverside County sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized Wednesday after accidentally shooting himself in the leg when a large dog approached him at a Riverside home.

[gitmo]

Oops.

[Joe 6-pack]

The dog “approached” him in this account. The original news release said it, “attacked,” him. I know because I saw the news clip which had some five year olds playing with the big, scary dog in the background...

[tbpiper]

Seems some how appropriate.

[prisoner6]

Note to Andy: Don’t let Barney put the bullit in his sidearm.

[DocJhn]

Stain removal @ the dry cleaners was probably costly!

[SandRat]

[USNBandit]

[USNBandit]

My agency had a guy shoot himself in the leg putting a gun back in a holster. He still doesn't know how it happened. Shouldn't be possible because our policy is to have our thumb covering the hammer as the weapons is put back in the holster. If you hit an obstruction with the trigger you would feel resistance from the thumb holding the hammer down.

Shooting yourself while drawing a gun probably means this deputy has had bad habits for a while and his firearms instructors haven't been watching when he is at the range.

[chris37]

LOL!

Good dog.

[Mariner]

Evidently a dog is not threat, but an armed Deputy is.

[Cicero]

I think the dog lucked out.

[Shimmer1]

...and then the dog ate him, right?.....right?????......No, you say??? how odd. I would have thought the big vicious dog would have attacked and eaten him. But noooooo

[joethedrummer]

Exactly!!!

A big, vicious attack dog would LOVE the smell of fresh Deputy blood, wouldn’t it?

[GladesGuru]

“Shooting yourself while drawing a gun probably means this deputy has had bad habits for a while and his firearms instructors haven’t been watching when he is at the range.”

After applying Occam’s Razor the following materialized: “Shooting yourself while drawing a gun probably means you can’t fix stupid.

Stupid IS forever.

[ClearCase_guy]

"Dwayne, how did this happen?"
"Well, Chief, I was minding my own business, thinking about all the times I screwed up. I said to myself, Dwayne, you sure are a dumbass. Why, you're such a dumbass, you'll probably get yourself killed one of these days."
"Then what happened, Dwayne?"
"Well, Chief, at that point, I was in fear of my life -- so I shot myself."

[USNBandit]

There are people that you take to the range and work on muscle memory for 6 weeks and they keep those good habits for a lifetime. There are others that dump all those good habits right away. The first group don’t shoot themselves or others accidentally.

[Iscool]

Finally, some dog justice...No bite??? So the cop was going to kill an innocent dog...I can’t believe they allow these nutjobs to carry loaded weapons...

[Chode]

.........HA ha!!!

[SunTzuWu]

[SandRat]

See Reply #6.