FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — With best friends like these, who needs enemies?
An Iowa man says his dog inadvertently shot him while they were roughhousing Wednesday.
Fifty-one-year-old Richard Remme, of Fort Dodge, told police he was playing with his dog, Balew, on the couch and tossed the dog off his lap. He says when the pit bull-Labrador mix bounded back up, he must have disabled the safety on the gun in his belly band and stepped on the trigger.
The gun fired, striking one of Remme’s legs. He was treated at a hospital and released later that day.
Remme told The Messenger newspaper that Balew is a “big wuss” and lay down beside him and cried because he thought he had done something wrong.
Not particularly bright person ignores several safety measures, shoots himself, & blames dog.
Why do these stories still amaze me? It’s taking me longer and longer to see the absurdity. The story should be, “Foolish human stupidly has a gun strapped on while sitting in his house, and then decides to wrestle with his dog!. End result - OOPS!”
Chance of an accident while wrestling with dog sans gun = ZERO, With gun, a lot higher!!!
Everyone knows he’s just a good dog with a gun.
Okay I’m glad I went and read the linked article to confirm that it was not the dog wearing the gun in a “belly band”, because the way the AP wrote this, “he must have disabled the safety on the gun in his belly band” it’s easy to read it as both pronouns talking about the dog.
Reminds me of the old joke:
Guy goes to meet his future in-laws, but he’s got an upset stomach. When he needs to break wind, he crouches down next to the dog and lets go. The dad says, “Stupid dog!” Guy does it twice more, and finally the dad says, “Stupid dog, why do you let that idiot keep farting on you?!?”
In this case, Richard Remme is the fart.