Woman shot when gun falls into commode...

Preacherman · October 22, 2002, 08:42 PM

From the Lake City Reporter (URL http://www.lakecityreporter.com/news...021021n3.html?)

Woman shot when gun falls in commode
Lake City Reporter
October 21, 2002

A Lake City woman was airlifted to Shands Jacksonville on Sunday afternoon, after her gun fell into the commode and shot her in the buttocks, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.

A deputy was called to the Moore Road address shortly after 3 p.m., about a shooting and saw a woman bleeding severely from her left buttock. Emergency medical technicians were on the scene and had the woman airlifted to Jacksonville, reports say.

Reports say the woman had just taken classes on firearm safety and she had a fear of being robbed due to past incidents.

The woman heard something outside her home and reached over the toilet to raise the window and the gun fell into the toilet. The woman was injured when the 9 mm handgun discharged into the commode, reports say.

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(I've heard of a "stopping shot", but this is ridiculous...)

C.R.Sam · October 22, 2002, 09:07 PM

She must have slept through the weapons retention and security portion of the class.

Oh well, not fatal so came out well in the end.

Sam

Ed Brunner · October 22, 2002, 09:19 PM

Good one Sam!

TallPine · October 22, 2002, 10:03 PM

Think of it as a test .... at least she knows that the gun will still shoot when it is under water

Calamity Jane · October 22, 2002, 10:33 PM

Oh. My.

I have been rendered speechless.

(though giggling at Sam's commentary!!)

WYO · October 22, 2002, 10:37 PM

Not a happy ending, but could have been worse.

Justin · October 22, 2002, 10:47 PM

I'd be curious to know what sort of pistol it is. After all, don't all modern handguns have safeties designed into them to keep just such an event from occuring?

Blackhawk · October 22, 2002, 11:00 PM

Watch for PRK, etc., to add a new element to their drop testing protocols.

Still can't figure out how she caught it in the left cheek by the description. Bet there are a few salient situational facts missing....

Bruce626 · October 22, 2002, 11:08 PM

Aha... she must've had one of those evil black semiautomatic plastic xray-invisible butt shooter guns.

qkrthnu · October 22, 2002, 11:10 PM

Hmmm, wierd. I wonder if she's telling the story the way it really happened?

If she is, I'd like to know what kind of gun it was.

Weimadog · October 23, 2002, 01:09 AM

C.R.Sam Oh well, not fatal so came out well in the end.

It is wrong to make this woman the butt of your joke

Coronach · October 23, 2002, 01:22 AM

Oh s***, another ND.

Mike

Mike

bastiat · October 23, 2002, 01:33 AM

Shot in the butt when she dropped a gun into the toilet? Something about her story smells funny.

croyance · October 23, 2002, 02:53 AM

Why does everybody who does something stupid with a gun feel a need to say "the gun went off" or otherwise blame it on the gun?

Dangus · October 23, 2002, 03:27 AM

Um, ok, assuming she really DID do something dumb with the gun, besides the obvious. How would she accidentally shoot herself in the butt otherwise?

theberettaman · October 23, 2002, 07:16 AM

As the true facts come out we will find that she was so distrought over the recent violence that she tried to blow her brains out.

By any chance was she a blonde?

jason10mm · October 23, 2002, 08:00 AM

I bet she was adjusting it in the holster, finger went into trigger guard, and BAM, lateral shot into the buttock. The "dropped in the toilet" part is so she can save (a little) face and not get into trouble with her health insurance. LAter.

Kentucky Rifle · October 23, 2002, 10:29 AM

When I first read this post and the replies yesterday, I started laughing and couldn't stop. The phone rang with a fellow wanting to talk about a vest that I'm considering for my wife as a Christmas gift. I almost choked. He asked me what was the matter, I told him, he bagan to laugh uncontrolably and asked me to call later when we'd both "laughed it out". Took a long time.
The lady in question should turn the other cheek (as it were) and fess up, less we have an assault toilet ban called for by the Brady Bunch.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Whew--cracked myself up again.

KR

spacemanspiff · October 23, 2002, 11:29 AM

(since my original reply yesterday *disappeared*)

tactical toilet training gone awry...

Blackhawk · October 23, 2002, 11:38 AM

jason10mm, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. I can't imagine the gun firing by being dropped in the toilet, nor can I imagine a ricochet from a slug fired into it hitting her.

Good thinking!

Correia · October 23, 2002, 02:36 PM

Kind of near this topic, the range that I shoot IDPA and 3 gun at has portapotties. I always have this deep and irrational fear that I'm going to go in there and somehow my 1911 is going to fall out of the holster, or my paddle holster will slip off and go into the pit. Impossible, but it still makes me nervous.

Of course I would have to go after it.

Now if I just lost a magazine, then it just ain't worth it. Its gone.

Bogie · October 23, 2002, 02:45 PM

Sounds like TSHTF...

A few years back, a VERY noted benchrest shooter dropped his bolt (they're immediately removed upon ceasefire) from a pocket into a portajohn. That's around $400 or more.

He got it out.

Ala Dan · October 23, 2002, 03:38 PM

it wasn't a Sig!

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

freeride21a · October 23, 2002, 03:41 PM

It coulda been an older single action with the hammer down over a loaded chamber.

I know that I could play hockey with my colt 1991a1 and it would not go off, an any condition...but im not gonna do it, cause it would violate almost every rule sumultaniously.

AndrewWalkowiak · October 23, 2002, 03:48 PM

All this talk of losing prized firearms and/or parts to the dreaded blue pit of the port-a-john...

Maybe a really strong magnet on a stout length of string needs to go into that range bag... and some disposable surgical gloves too.

You never know...

If it was a whole gun that fell in, cleaning it should be "interesting". It would certainly be the first time I ever saw blue on that patch that wasn't from copper solvent.

October 22, 2002, 08:42 PM	#1
Preacherman Senior Member Join Date: July 9, 2002 Posts: 791	Woman shot when gun falls into commode... From the Lake City Reporter (URL http://www.lakecityreporter.com/news...021021n3.html?) Woman shot when gun falls in commode Lake City Reporter October 21, 2002 A Lake City woman was airlifted to Shands Jacksonville on Sunday afternoon, after her gun fell into the commode and shot her in the buttocks, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. A deputy was called to the Moore Road address shortly after 3 p.m., about a shooting and saw a woman bleeding severely from her left buttock. Emergency medical technicians were on the scene and had the woman airlifted to Jacksonville, reports say. Reports say the woman had just taken classes on firearm safety and she had a fear of being robbed due to past incidents. The woman heard something outside her home and reached over the toilet to raise the window and the gun fell into the toilet. The woman was injured when the 9 mm handgun discharged into the commode, reports say. ____________________________________________________ (I've heard of a "stopping shot", but this is ridiculous...)

October 22, 2002, 09:19 PM	#3
Ed Brunner Senior Member Join Date: October 11, 1998 Location: Natchez, MS, USA Posts: 2,562	Good one Sam! __________________ MOLON LABE UNTIL IT'S OVER! Ed

October 22, 2002, 10:03 PM	#4
TallPine Senior Member Join Date: August 11, 2002 Location: Montana Posts: 528	Think of it as a test .... at least she knows that the gun will still shoot when it is under water __________________ "The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government." --Daniel Webster

October 22, 2002, 10:33 PM	#5
Calamity Jane Senior Member Join Date: March 13, 2001 Location: East Tennessee Posts: 899	Oh. My. I have been rendered speechless. (though giggling at Sam's commentary!!) __________________ CJ “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

October 22, 2002, 11:10 PM	#10
qkrthnu Senior Member Join Date: April 16, 2002 Posts: 340	Hmmm, wierd. I wonder if she's telling the story the way it really happened? If she is, I'd like to know what kind of gun it was. __________________ "If you're not with us, you're against us," President George W. Bush "Whoever is not with me is against me," Jesus Christ (Luke 11:23)

October 22, 2002, 09:07 PM	#2
C.R.Sam Senior Member Join Date: October 29, 1999 Location: Dewey, AZ Posts: 12,858	She must have slept through the weapons retention and security portion of the class. Oh well, not fatal so came out well in the end. Sam

October 22, 2002, 10:37 PM	#6
WYO Senior Member Join Date: February 21, 2001 Posts: 365	Not a happy ending, but could have been worse.

October 22, 2002, 10:47 PM	#7
Justin Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2000 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 1,641	I'd be curious to know what sort of pistol it is. After all, don't all modern handguns have safeties designed into them to keep just such an event from occuring?

October 22, 2002, 11:00 PM	#8
Blackhawk Senior Member Join Date: November 4, 2001 Posts: 5,040	Watch for PRK, etc., to add a new element to their drop testing protocols. Still can't figure out how she caught it in the left cheek by the description. Bet there are a few salient situational facts missing....

October 22, 2002, 11:08 PM	#9
Bruce626 Senior Member Join Date: June 26, 2002 Location: Handgun-Free Chicago thanks to Gun-grabber Daley Posts: 167	Aha... she must've had one of those evil black semiautomatic plastic xray-invisible butt shooter guns.

October 23, 2002, 01:09 AM	#11
Weimadog Member Join Date: January 2, 2000 Location: Saint Louis USA Posts: 67	C.R.Sam Oh well, not fatal so came out well in the end. It is wrong to make this woman the butt of your joke

October 23, 2002, 01:22 AM	#12
Coronach Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Posts: 3,147	Oh s***, another ND. Mike Mike __________________ The axe bites into the door, ripping a hole in one panel. The maniac puts his face into the hole, cackling gleefully, "Here's Johnny...erk." "And here's Smith and Wesson," murmurs Coronach, Mozambiquing six rounds of .357 into the critter at a range of three feet. -Lawdog "True pacifism is the finest form of manliness. But if a man comes up to you and cuts your hand off, you don't just offer him the other one. Not if you want to go on playing the piano, you don't." -Sam Peckinpah "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein

October 23, 2002, 01:33 AM	#13
bastiat Senior Member Join Date: February 14, 2001 Posts: 1,771	Shot in the butt when she dropped a gun into the toilet? Something about her story smells funny. __________________ Flashbunny.org - Pro-Freedom Propaganda Politically Incorrect & Pro-Gun Stuff To Buy

October 23, 2002, 02:53 AM	#14
croyance Senior Member Join Date: March 30, 2001 Posts: 3,604	Why does everybody who does something stupid with a gun feel a need to say "the gun went off" or otherwise blame it on the gun?

October 23, 2002, 03:27 AM	#15
Dangus Senior Member Join Date: July 4, 2000 Location: IA Posts: 1,907	Um, ok, assuming she really DID do something dumb with the gun, besides the obvious. How would she accidentally shoot herself in the butt otherwise? __________________ Help Fight Cancer I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist "Washington didn't use his right to free speech to defeat the British, he shot them."

October 23, 2002, 07:16 AM	#16
theberettaman Senior Member Join Date: November 27, 2001 Location: N.E. Oklahoma Posts: 496	As the true facts come out we will find that she was so distrought over the recent violence that she tried to blow her brains out. By any chance was she a blonde?

October 23, 2002, 08:00 AM	#17
jason10mm Senior Member Join Date: April 29, 2001 Location: San Antonio, Tx Posts: 230	I bet she was adjusting it in the holster, finger went into trigger guard, and BAM, lateral shot into the buttock. The "dropped in the toilet" part is so she can save (a little) face and not get into trouble with her health insurance. LAter.

October 23, 2002, 10:29 AM	#18
Kentucky Rifle Senior Member Join Date: July 5, 1999 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Posts: 2,687	When I first read this post and the replies yesterday, I started laughing and couldn't stop. The phone rang with a fellow wanting to talk about a vest that I'm considering for my wife as a Christmas gift. I almost choked. He asked me what was the matter, I told him, he bagan to laugh uncontrolably and asked me to call later when we'd both "laughed it out". Took a long time. The lady in question should turn the other cheek (as it were) and fess up, less we have an assault toilet ban called for by the Brady Bunch. BWAHAHAHAHAHA Whew--cracked myself up again. KR

October 23, 2002, 11:29 AM	#19
spacemanspiff Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2002 Location: alaska Posts: 3,498	(since my original reply yesterday disappeared) tactical toilet training gone awry... __________________ "Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

October 23, 2002, 11:38 AM	#20
Blackhawk Senior Member Join Date: November 4, 2001 Posts: 5,040	jason10mm, that sounds like a reasonable explanation. I can't imagine the gun firing by being dropped in the toilet, nor can I imagine a ricochet from a slug fired into it hitting her. Good thinking!

October 23, 2002, 02:36 PM	#21
Correia Senior Member Join Date: December 3, 1998 Location: SLC Utah Posts: 3,740	Kind of near this topic, the range that I shoot IDPA and 3 gun at has portapotties. I always have this deep and irrational fear that I'm going to go in there and somehow my 1911 is going to fall out of the holster, or my paddle holster will slip off and go into the pit. Impossible, but it still makes me nervous. Of course I would have to go after it. Now if I just lost a magazine, then it just ain't worth it. Its gone.

October 23, 2002, 02:45 PM	#22
Bogie Senior Member Join Date: June 5, 2000 Location: Job hunting on the road... Posts: 3,827	Sounds like TSHTF... A few years back, a VERY noted benchrest shooter dropped his bolt (they're immediately removed upon ceasefire) from a pocket into a portajohn. That's around $400 or more. He got it out. __________________ Job hunting, but helping a friend out at www.vikingmachineusa.com - and learning the finer aspects of becoming a precision machinist. And making the world's greatest bottle openers!

October 23, 2002, 03:38 PM	#23
Ala Dan Member in memoriam Join Date: August 13, 1999 Location: In The HOT, Humid, and Mu Posts: 6,116	One thing is for sure, it wasn't a Sig! Best Wishes, Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member

October 23, 2002, 03:41 PM	#24
freeride21a Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2001 Location: occupied state of kommiefornia Posts: 273	It coulda been an older single action with the hammer down over a loaded chamber. I know that I could play hockey with my colt 1991a1 and it would not go off, an any condition...but im not gonna do it, cause it would violate almost every rule sumultaniously. __________________ click here to visit my store 000BUCK WEAR, for firearms love apparel!

October 23, 2002, 03:48 PM	#25
AndrewWalkowiak Senior Member Join Date: August 3, 2001 Location: WI Posts: 191	Port-a-john retirevals... All this talk of losing prized firearms and/or parts to the dreaded blue pit of the port-a-john... Maybe a really strong magnet on a stout length of string needs to go into that range bag... and some disposable surgical gloves too. You never know... If it was a whole gun that fell in, cleaning it should be "interesting". It would certainly be the first time I ever saw blue on that patch that wasn't from copper solvent.