Posted on 02/15/2006 5:51:07 PM PST by luv2ndamend
IRONY CAN BE PRETTY IRONIC Colorado man who laughed Monday when he first read Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a hunting companion was himself injured just hours later when he was accidentally blasted by his girlfriend in his own hunting mishap.
"I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself 'How can you shoot your friend with your gun?' And look what happened," said Josh Kayser of Lafayette, Colo.
According to the Longmont Daily Times-Call, the 21-year-old man was on the trail of raccoons that had been preying on chickens on his family's property.
As Kayser crouched down to look under a shed, his 17-year-old girlfriend, whose name was not released by authorities, crouched down behind him and accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle.
The bullet reportedly entered behind his right ear, exited through his chin and ended up lodging in his left forearm.
Doctors chose not to remove the bullet, lest they cause nerve damage.
"I feel fine," Kayser told the paper. "It feels like a cigarette burn."
Kayser was discharged from Avista Adventist Hospital after spending the night, and police decided against filing any charges against his girlfriend.
I can hear it now, Cheney is like a hapless chick.
(old joke - sorry if told before)
A guy's wife complains that he never takes her hunting so he finally agrees to do so. They park their SUV at the edge of a small cliff and he tells her to hold the rifle and shoot when she sees any deer. He's going to go down there and frighten them out of the brush. He gets about halfway down the cliff when he hears a shotgun blast followed by his wife screaming "I got one! I got one!"
When the man climbs back up he sees his wife arguing with a man who finally tells her "Look lady, you're right. It's your deer. Okay? Now would you mind if I just removed my saddle from him?"
I just want to know if they had the $7 raccoon stamp.
Probably traveled down the jawline, just under the skin. The bullet exited and then entered into the forearm.
I have seen a bullet wound to the head with .22 caliber rounds where the bullet encircled the skull 1 1/2 times, just under the skin.
It doesn't happen ever day, but a small caliber bullet traveling along bone, just under the skin, does happen often enough.
They can even be great pets. Isn't this guy just adorable?
Please don't encourage people to attempt to make pets of racoons. Once they are grown, they become very unpredictable in their behavior. A grown racoon can be one of the meanest animals a person can tangle with.
I have known of a couple of orphaned young racoons made into pets that had to be put down after reaching adulthood. One sunk his front claws and teeth into the hand of its 'master' right down to the bone.
Ooga chakka. Hooga, hooga.
As long as I can chortle when the Palestinians do the Giblets Dance.
.22 caliber shots spin up and speed up as they enter body mass, there it turns into a ricochet... and break the law of probability. it is common knowledge that better be shot with a big caliber than with a .22
Both my dad and brother had pet raccoons, and only had great experiences.
However, I am aware of that danger, which is why I would not have a pet raccoon myself.
It would have been great if someone had asked him what racoon tasted like and he had replied "kind of a cross between spotted owl and Kalifurnia condor, but only if you fricassee 'em first."
Awwwwww...
lol
21 and 17. What is the law in the thar hills?
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