Posted on 05/13/2008 3:59:37 PM PDT by Kimmers
ORT WORTH — A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.
Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday morning in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.
“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off."
Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean said.
Espinal was taken to an area hospital where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.
Yup, stories like this made me even happier I gave up beer :D
LOL.....perfect
It has to be true — you just can’t make up stuff like this :-) (chuckle)
It doesn’t say what happened to the itch on his back. Bad reporting.
Doncha just hate it when that happens?
In all friendly jokiness.....was beer “invovled” in your post?
When he used the weapon to scratch himself, did he need to put his finger on the trigger? Or was the hammer already cocked?
Don’t be shocked if gun control groups start using this story.
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