An off-duty police officer allegedly fired his gun by accident after setting it on a toilet paper dispenser Saturday in a bathroom stall at a Honolulu Target store, according to television station KHON.
The station reported that sources said the officer removed his Glock from its holster, placed it on top of the dispenser and accidentally pulled the trigger when he went to pick it up.
The bullet went through the wall of the stall, ricocheted off a door frame and hit the wall of an adjacent stall but, according to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, no injuries resulted from the shot.
The newspaper reported the officer, who’s name was not released, has been with the Honolulu Police Department for two years and was the one to call 911 to report the shooting.
Similar incidents involving toilet paper dispensers and guns have recently happened elsewhere in the U.S.
In July, a loaded gun was found on top of a toilet paper dispenser in the bathroom of a South Carolina Wal-Mart. Similarly, in September 2013, a Missouri House staffer allegedly left his loaded pistol on top of a toilet paper dispenser at the state Capitol. Also last year, a man in Kentucky was injured when his gun fell off a toilet paper dispenser and shot him in the leg.
