Posted on 03/03/2005 8:50:31 AM PST by Coastal
Shortly after reporting the death of his father, Hunter S. Thompson's son walked outside to fire three shots into the air, according to reports released Tuesday.
Several Pitkin County sheriff's deputies heard Juan Thompson fire the shots as they approached the Woody Creek home, known as the Owl Farm.
"Juan told me he had shot a shotgun into the air to mark the passing of his father," said Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff John Armstrong in his report.
Hunter Thompson, who reigned as a savage social critic and inventor of Gonzo journalism for decades, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the kitchen of his home on Feb. 20.
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Oh yeah, let me do that and I'd be in jail before one could say,"Gonzo". What a bunch of loons.
something seems fishy.
Really? How sad for you.
I can step off my back porch and fire any of my weapons, as I see fit, with zero repercussions from The Man or my neighbors.
Potential burglars hate it, though.
Great way to explain the gunpowder presence on your hands and arms at the ??crime?? scene!
Sounds a bit like a cover story for powder residue to me and would be viewed as such by any cop.
Hunter would have known this, but then again, maybe Hunter hated Junior.
Just a note to all my FReeper friends; if I should ever be reported as dead from credible sources, I expect you ALL to go outside and fire your shotguns into the air. Then raise a few drinks to me.
You've been watching WAAAAY too much CSI.......
" Oh yeah, let me do that and I'd be in jail before one could say,"Gonzo". What a bunch of loons."
My wife used to bitch at me for shooting off of the deck. Seems I would sometimes forget to pick up the casings. Women get upset at the smallest things.
Firing off his gun in the air, eh? Where was this kid raised - Palestine? Iraq?
The gun's magazine had six bullets left in the clip, but no bullet was found in the gun's firing chamber, Ryan said.
"I think a bullet from the magazine should have cycled into the chamber, but if there's a malfunction, they may not," DiSalvo said.
DiSalvo said he hadn't checked the gun, but the weapon could have been on a manual cycle that would have stopped the other bullets from going into the chamber.
Any of our many FReeper handgunners know if this is a plausible story? I am not familiar with the S&W 465, but it sounds to me like this would either have to be a malfunction, or the clip was inserted into the weapon after it was fired...
Gonzo, bonzo, the guys was a nut case, appears the nut did not fall far from the tree.
Why is this now ringing in my head:
"Well the Georgia Patrol wazza makin' his rounds
So I fired a shot just ta flag 'im down,
And a big-bellied sherrif grabbed his gun and sed 'why ja do it?'"
Excerpt from Aspen Times
Bob headed straight for Hunter's kitchen. He knelt down and the fireman unzipped the body bag, snagging it a couple of times along the way. Bob looked at his friend for a long moment and said, "You son of a bitch, you screwed up my birthday party."Then he walked over to Juan, embraced him and said, "Your dad just lowered our property values."
Hours later, during the long and slow drive home, I finally asked my husband what Hunter looked like in death. Bob took a deep breath and said, "He looked surprised."
- Gabrielle Rafelson
That's the night the lights went out...
Well, I know that it ain't a "clip". It's a "magazine". The cop had it right, but whoever wrote the story didn't. I've carried S&W pistols for years and, if the magazine is not fully inserted and locked in place, even the round in the chamber will not fire; and, if there were rounds in the magazine, they would cycle into the chamber after the first shot. If the magazine is empty, the slide locks open. I'm far from any kind of expert, but this is my experience with S&W pistols, although I've never owned the specific model named in the article. I guess one other thing that some folks don't seem to realize is that a revolver is not properly referred to as a "pistol", but that terms refers to a semi-automatic handgun or, I guess to be real technical, it could refer to a fully-automatic "machine pistol". At least, that's my understanding and, if it's incorrect, I'd be happy to receive better information.
So what do you call flintlock side arms, besides flintlock pistols?
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