NRA assisted suicide.
"Here we are at the beginning of March and we already may have the 2005 winner of the Darwin Award. This guy is going to be hard to beat."
No kidding.
He is a most deserving recipient of the award.
...the clerk with a .50 Desert Eagle...
Ooh, I bet that left a mark.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
"Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop"
LOL!!!! Thanks I needed this one! Whoa!
As Claude Rains said in Cassablanca, "We haven't yet decided whether he committed suicide, or was shot trying to escape."
In this case, I'd say it was suicide.
I wonder if that was a "police assisted" suicide?
Have the toxicity reports come back from the autopsy yet? This dude HAD to be on something--drawing on a cop is stupid enough, but in a gun shop with likely armed citizens?
---at least 23 hits out of 47 shots is better than average for modern-day gunfights--if this can be called a gunfight--
Don't take a .22 to a gun store hold-up.
Crime prevention, let Hillary know.... ;-)
Was this guy trying to commit suicide, I wonder?
Mostly not true. And it happened 15 years ago
On 3 February 1990, David Zaback attempted to hold up H&J Leather & Firearms Ltd., a gun shop located in Renton Highlands near Seattle, Washington.
On 3 February 1990, David Zaback attempted to hold up H&J Leather & Firearms Ltd., a gun shop located in Renton Highlands near Seattle, Washington. About 4:40 p.m. that day, he entered the crowded shop and announced his intention to rob it by Gun telling everyone to put their hands on the counter and saying if anybody moved, he'd kill them. He then spotted a uniformed policeman having coffee with Wendall Woodall, the shop's owner. What happened next is less than clear in terms of who shot first, but there was an exchange of gunfire between David Zaback, the would-be robber; Timothy Lally, an 18-year veteran of the King County police force; and Danny Morris, one of the shop's clerks.
Zaback, who had fired three times, was shot three times in the chest and once in the arm. He died in the hospital about four hours after the shooting. No one else was injured during the incident, and no charges were subsequently laid against Lally or Morris.
The e-mailed narrative holds up as a news item for the most part, but some of its elements have been altered to make for better storytelling.
I don't think this guy qualifies. To receive a Darwin award, death has to be an unintended consequence of the recipient's own stupidity. Although we will never know for sure, I suspect the guy intended suicide by cop and friends.
Darwin Award Ping
bump for later discussion
It'd be interesting to find out how many rounds actually missed the perp. Not too many, I bet.
Sheesh....Guess those signs that say "NO Loaded Firarms Beyond The Door.." aren't used roun there???
The victims must have MINIMUM success,,,,er,,,,,oops,,,,,slipsies.