Prince Andrew escapes death from bodyguard's shot

The Scotsman ^ | Sun 11 May 2003 | TOM CURTIS

[billorites]

Remarkably incontinent.

Clintonian, almost.

[cynicom]

I thought guns were illegal in Britain???

[isthisnickcool]

Lottery winner almost killed?

[tet68]

Steel jacketed?
FMJ probably.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Ooops. There goes the Prince.

[Larry Lucido]

Why does Andrew need armed guards? No one else had guns, so he should be perfectly safe.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Seems like a lot of accidental discharges, although I am not suggesting that they are suspicious. I wonder how often the Secret Service accidently fires a weapon, in the vicinity of the President, or his residence?

[annyokie]

Ahem! Prince Wills pix?

[Cultural Jihad]

Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson and daughters Eugenie and Beatrice

[DD938]

That's Jeff Fuller as in "Fuller Brush Man"???

[annyokie]

Thanks! I don't know why I was thinking Prince William. Brain glitch, I guess.

[willyboyishere]

"Accidental"??? This is probably the same guy who Andrew, in a moment of giddy fun about five years ago, turned a high-powered water hose on, then laughed when the guy was drenched and knocked on his ass.

[tubebender]

With friends like this who needs enemies...

[Falcon4.0]

"10ft from where the Duke of York was standing."

I've had 30-06 rounds zing by my head closer than that.

But I guess it never made the paper because I'm not a "Duke".

[gcruse]

Well, here's your problem. They need to change the name to princeguard. A body guard needs a body to guard.

[Paul Atreides]

All this time I thought that the 80s soap, Dynasty, was way over the top. I didn't take the Royal Family into account.

[marktwain]

Amazing as it sounds, I suspect that these guards need more training with their weapons. Glocks are handled just like double action revolvers. Keep your finger off of the trigger until you are ready to shoot. It is almost impossible to fire a Glock if you keep your finger off of the trigger.

I bet the guard had his finger inside the trigger guard.

[tlb]

It's a shame Princess Diana isn't still in the Palace. The staff never prematurely discharged when she was on top of things.

[newwahoo]

From what I've learned since I joined the NYPD, Glocks need to have the trigger pulled as part of the breakdown process for cleaning. I still remember all the instructors covering their ears when the recruit officers that had chosen the Glock 19 as their service weapon reached that part of the process!