Police Chief Shoots Self at Gun Training Session

FoxNews.com ^ | May 5, 2008 | AP

[RDTF]

RIVERDALE, Utah

[mgc1122]

ROTFLMAO ... atta boy, Chief Wiggums.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

He just gave himself a gimp for life.....In the ankle?

[Red Badger]

Winner of The Barney Fife Award!........

[TC Rider]

Shot in the ankle? Put him down!

[dragnet2]

The police chief in Riverdale accidentally shot himself in an ankle while demonstrating how to dislodge a jammed handgun.

He was demonstrating this procedure? Was everyone taking notes?

Next we'll hear all the patrol officers have ankle wounds.

[Snickering Hound]

[mad_as_he$$]

Cops would be much safer if they did not have guns.

[telebob]

Two words: Snap Caps.

[Hoffer Rand]

All together now, the first and third rules of handgun safety are...

[WOBBLY BOB]

...saved for the “only highly trained people like police should carry guns” gun control argument,
ping

[Califreak]

Of course, only professionals such as the military and police should be trusted with guns.

[beltfed308]

Keywords donut and donutwatch added.

Let me also be the first to ask if it was a Glock?

[B-Chan]

LOL cops

[IGOTMINE]

Probably demonstrating one handed clearance technique. I teach the same in my classes...but with the aforementioned snap caps.

[xsrdx]

Probably demonstrating one handed clearance technique.

Went to rack the slide on his boot heel with his finger inside the trigger guard on the way back... bang.

[RinaseaofDs]

“The police chief in Riverdale . . . “

Archie treated for shock
Betty gave mouth-to-mouth
Veronica became jealous
Jughead kept eating hamburgers - too lazy to even appear alarmed.

[Ghengis]

This gentleman unintentionally just presented the most effective piece of instruction in his career. Seeing the abrupt effects of unsafe firearms handling is something that tends to stick with a person.

[Joe 6-pack]

Certainly this Chief was familiar with, and even taught the tenet that you never point a firearm at anything you don’t intend to shoot. Therefore it seems reasonable to assume that the Chief intended to shoot himself in the ankle. He needs to be psychoanalyzed for his self-destructive gestures and possibly barred from owning firearms altogether.

[untrained skeptic]

The chief's brother, a state lawmaker, said Hansen is a 23-year veteran and chief of the Riverdale police force since 2006.

Rep. Neil Hansen, D-Ogden, said he regularly goes target practicing with his brother and described him as safety-conscious.

"I've never seen him do anything reckless," Neil Hansen told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.

It only requires you to get cocky or careless once for serious or even fatal results to occur.

Fortunately, injuries weren't life threatening, and he likely taught his men a lesson in gun safety they won't forget soon.