Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself

[mofome]

Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself

01:43 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
kdurnan@dallasnews.com

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 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.

[diogee]

Wow.
Talk about a lack of brainpower.

[Sportsgirl]

Lucky for him it wasn't his balls that were itchy.

[SBR Lou]

Lucky for him it wasn't his balls that were itchy.

[madmaxx]

i wonder if the poker game and drinking continued...if not, what a party pooper

[capitalist pig]

“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."


Another one of those mysterious guns that "just go off". I have owned guns for 30 years, and I just cant seem to ever get my hands on one of those guns that "just go off". Everyone Ive ever owned or that Uncle sam owned and provided me with always required something to pull the trigger. No sympathy here, people like him have no business owning firearms JMO.

later

[rake922]

cool

[Charlotte]

jj didn't something similar happen to you last year when you used a colt to scratch your pecker?

[dodif]

Lucky for him it wasn't his balls that were itchy.