Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself

[Alonzo]

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."

Mr. 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.

Mr. Espinal was taken to an area hospital where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051408dnmetitch.f81a31c3.html

He was that close to getting the Darwin Award he deserves.

[Pookie]

The first thing that comes to mind is:

DUMBASS!!

[Buck Laser]

The first thing that comes to mind is:

DUMBASS!!

First thing that came to my mind was REPUBLICAN!!

[jafar00]

Darwin Awards nominee.

[Pookie]

LOL!! What an idiot. I've used a lot of stuff for backscratchers, including cats, but hell I never used my guns.
Gaaahhhh! What a dumbass!
Purrs,
Pookie

[micfranklin]

I can't believe me and him are the same species.

[Osborn F. Enready]

Alonzo said:
He was that close to getting the Darwin Award he deserves.

HEY, we agree!!! ;)

[Alonzo]

HEY, we agree!!! ;)

How many more years until it happens again? :D

[BoogyMan]

Wow, can we say "shallow end of the gene pool?"

[Buck Laser]

Wow, can we say "shallow end of the gene pool?"
Makes me wish I could cue up the Austin Lounge Lizard's "Shallow End of the Gene Pool." :dork:

[Pookie]

Hell! I say:
"YOU!! OUT of the gene pool!!"
Gaaaahh some people are such morons!
Purrs,
Pookie

[PatrickHenry]

Ya' gotta watch that trigger when using your iron to scratch that itch...

Not sure beer and guns are a good mix, but much of redneck America does, so who am I to complain? This guy seems to have the same proclivities as the VP...

[Pookie]

True, PH, but at least he didn't shoot anyone in the face.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Wndrtch]

First thing that came to my mind was REPUBLICAN!!

I'm thinking local Gang-banger. Who else would keep a loaded firearm, within reach to be used as a back-scratcher?

Besides, Republicans usualy shoot other people, not themselves.

http://cache.wonkette.com/assets/resources/2007/10/ElmerCheney.jpg

[Osborn F. Enready]

Wndrtch said:
I'm thinking local Gang-banger. Who else would keep a loaded firearm, within reach to be used as a back-scratcher?

I do, almost always, yet I am not affiliated nor do I have any associations with gangs or organized crime.

There are no kids in this house, and we have several guns in condition of ready to be used.... if they ain't ready, they ain't doing much good, unless you like them for their art appeal.... ;)

[Pookie]

Yep! I have guns here too and not afraid to use em...if I am threatened really, really badly.
Like if it's them or me.
Purrs,
Pookie

[preservanation]

I once brought a backscratcher to a skeet-shoot.
That didn't work out very well either...

[Osborn F. Enready]

LOL @ Preserva!

[Alonzo]

Who else would keep a loaded firearm, within reach to be used as a back-scratcher?I do

Osborn, did you just say you use guns as a back scratcher, or am I misunderstanding this?

[Buck Laser]

I think it's utterly ridiculous that a funny story about a guy shooting himself because he used a loaded piston to scratch his back devolved into another rant session about the second amendment. And frankly, it looked to me like the gun guys started it.

[Osborn F. Enready]

Whos ranting.......Buck?

Alonzo said:
Osborn, did you just say you use guns as a back scratcher, or am I misunderstanding this?

I was saying yes to the "who but gangbangers keep loaded guns close by" part, missed the "to be used as a backscratcher" part..... ;)