RELH
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-27-17 AT 01:07AM (MST)[p]I copied from another forum The person who wrote this works at the emergency annex of a hospital in Portland, Oregon.
RELH
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It's been a long and snowy/icy winter in the Portland area - compared to typical years. As a result, I've been seeing a lot more slip-and-fall injuries and relatively fewer gun-related cases. But last week we had one that had a lot of people scratching their heads (and wincing - see below).
It all started, as so many painful gun tales do, with an armed idiot. In this case, the idiot in question is a meth-head with a long rap sheet and not much going on between the ears.
He walked into a local convenience store, pointed his gun at the clerk and announced a robbery. The clerk was apparently ALSO not the brightest bulb in the box and, seeing a gun pointed at his head, said "Huh?" (or words to that effect). The tweaker apparently took that as a sign of resistance and pulled the trigger.
Someone I know - a man who has hunted big and dangerous game in Africa many times - once told me that the most frightening sound he has ever heard wasn't the sound of a charging rhino, but a "click" when he was expecting a "bang".
Once the implications of the "click" percolated into his meth-addled brain, the would-be robber stuffed the pistol into his waistband and turned to exit the store. At that moment, on the store surveillance video, you can see a small puff of smoke coming from the robber's "groin area" followed by his graceless collapse onto the store floor, where he writhed in pain until the paramedics carted him away.
He arrived in the ER with the standard big wad-o-gauze packed around his "personal items"; after removing the gauze, it was obvious that something catastrophic had happened to his right testicle. It was, in fact, later located in his right trouser leg, around the knee (see "wincing", above).
The detectives stopped by to ask a few questions and show me the video. I gave them the shell casing (also found in his pants) and we looked it over carefully - only a single primer strike (as near as we could tell using the equipment available in the ER). It looks like he had a hang fire (the cases were pretty corroded) and didn't follow the proper procedure (keep the firearm pointed downrange for 60 seconds, etc).
The DA is reportedly trying to decide whether to also charge the meth-head with attempted murder, but he won't be going anywhere for a while - at least, not at any speed.
RELH
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It's been a long and snowy/icy winter in the Portland area - compared to typical years. As a result, I've been seeing a lot more slip-and-fall injuries and relatively fewer gun-related cases. But last week we had one that had a lot of people scratching their heads (and wincing - see below).
It all started, as so many painful gun tales do, with an armed idiot. In this case, the idiot in question is a meth-head with a long rap sheet and not much going on between the ears.
He walked into a local convenience store, pointed his gun at the clerk and announced a robbery. The clerk was apparently ALSO not the brightest bulb in the box and, seeing a gun pointed at his head, said "Huh?" (or words to that effect). The tweaker apparently took that as a sign of resistance and pulled the trigger.
Someone I know - a man who has hunted big and dangerous game in Africa many times - once told me that the most frightening sound he has ever heard wasn't the sound of a charging rhino, but a "click" when he was expecting a "bang".
Once the implications of the "click" percolated into his meth-addled brain, the would-be robber stuffed the pistol into his waistband and turned to exit the store. At that moment, on the store surveillance video, you can see a small puff of smoke coming from the robber's "groin area" followed by his graceless collapse onto the store floor, where he writhed in pain until the paramedics carted him away.
He arrived in the ER with the standard big wad-o-gauze packed around his "personal items"; after removing the gauze, it was obvious that something catastrophic had happened to his right testicle. It was, in fact, later located in his right trouser leg, around the knee (see "wincing", above).
The detectives stopped by to ask a few questions and show me the video. I gave them the shell casing (also found in his pants) and we looked it over carefully - only a single primer strike (as near as we could tell using the equipment available in the ER). It looks like he had a hang fire (the cases were pretty corroded) and didn't follow the proper procedure (keep the firearm pointed downrange for 60 seconds, etc).
The DA is reportedly trying to decide whether to also charge the meth-head with attempted murder, but he won't be going anywhere for a while - at least, not at any speed.
