[nickcarraway]

Badass or idiot?

[BenLurkin]

Someone with poor hygiene.

[showme_the_Glory]

third day on Saturday when Blevins changed into a light brown shirt,

3 days on the same shirt. Was he in deer camp?

[rdl6989]

I’ll take the latter.

[Talisker]

Badass or idiot?

Liar.

[Fido969]

Three days later when he changed his shirt?

[ClearCase_guy]

“I’ve had worse.” — The Black Knight

[Carthego delenda est]

I hate it when that happens.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Blevins...was cleaning a .22 caliber pistol in the living room of his Whitewood Drive home

I read a story some years ago about a woman who died from a .22 caliber round that penetrated her skull just below and behind the right ear. She didn't feel it but died some days later.

She was driving along somewhere in New York along the water...perhaps near the airport...with her car windows open. Someone fired a round that traveled over the water at a low angle, skipped off the water and entered the vehicle through the right rear open window.

How the cops ever figured that one out is beyond me.

[lacrew]

Mystery solved.

“possibly because of the medicine he takes for an old back injury”

[Tupelo]

Three days in the same shirt leads me to lean toward the Idiot side.
AS for his not knowing he was shot; My best guess is the blow to the head hurt more than the five and a half millimeter flesh wound in his arm. That plus what ever medication (prescription or otherwise) he was enjoying.
Three days in a shirt in Florida! Phew. P U

[ResponseAbility]

Let’s see, cleaning his gun with a round in the chamber...I’ll go with idiot.

[bgill]

Mr. Stinky is a bad liar.

[G Larry]

I’ll focus on the “didn’t feel it” aspect.

The momentary shock of the event blocks out the feeling.

[NEMDF]

I am leaning toward idiot. Idiot who should put on a clean shirt more often.

[Ken H]

Badass or idiot?

Storyteller.

[dfwgator]

Forget it, Jake, it’s Florida.

[BwanaNdege]

...exit wound on his arm that was barely bleeding at the time because the wound had cauterized, deputies said.

cau·ter·ize - verb

"burn the skin or flesh of (a wound) with a heated instrument or caustic substance, typically to stop bleeding or prevent the wound from becoming infected."

Dear Deputies,

[PAR35]

The lesson here is that one should change one’s shirt at least every other day.

[Drew68]

Blevins said he did not feel any pain from the gunshot, possibly because of the medicine he takes for an old back injury

Does this "medicine" come in a big bottle with the words "Jim Beam" on it?

[slouch-no-more]

Good thing he wasn’t holding a .45. Would have blown is arm off..