Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say
A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.
A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.
So…we needed…some bad guys with guns to…save this guy…from shooting…himself. By shooting him first. Am I doing this right?
At least nobody stole his trash, which was bound to happen if he had been unarmed.
No, they needed a good gun, with a guy.
Schrodinger's Gun Owner is simultaneously the Good Guy With a Gun and the Bad Guy With a Gun until the gun discharges and collapses the wave function.
I mean, I this case the problem (improper and irresponsible use of a firearm) kind of fixed itself, didn't it?
Like... Nothing to see here, just a Darwin Award recipient.
USE THE FUCKING SAFETY YOU IDIOTS
Some guns, shockingly, don't have a safety.
S&W SD9 is one of those. Designed for first time home protection. The trigger has two steps to fire, preventing it from going off if dropped.
I remember reading the manual for a new powertool and it said something like this:
To start the blade, disengage the safety (European models), then press the trigger.
Baffled me.
Am I missing something or are there just no gun owners here. This is incredibly disingenuous, and even dangerous, “advice”.
A loaded gun with a round in the chamber should fire when the trigger is pulled, every single time. They should not fire when the trigger is not pulled.
Following any one of the three safety rules prevents 100% of “accidents”. There are no real gun accidents besides catastrophic mechanical failure (which does happen, but usually with shit ammo and shit guns or poorly maintained guns).
Depending on traditional safeties encourages poor gun handling habits and adds precious time to fire when milliseconds count. “Safety-less” pistols will not fire unless the trigger is pulled, period.
Are you saying his parents should have used a condom?
Or perhaps don't carry a gun when doing mundane tasks such as taking out the trash?
A lot of guns don't have safeies. But having holstered or even just not having his finger on the trigger would have saved his life.
Thank God he was safe from whatever threat he was so afraid of that he thought he needed a loaded gun to take his trash to the end of his driveway.
I'm so fucking glad that I'm not so terrified of everything and everyone that I think I need a loaded gun 24 hours a day to protect myself.
take his trash
I was this-many reads in when I finally understood he wasn't TALKING trash to his dumpster.
"You want a piece of me, you smelly filth, you rubbish heap, you trumpsterfire of human indecen--BANG! Arghhhhhh...."
That's what you get for talking trash to your trash!
His biggest threat was himself.
Glad he took care of that.
Now he is no longer a threat to himself.
Try living in Alaska or northern Canada and you'd delete your comment.
I'm assuming you're referring to wildlife and not suggesting that Canadians are just vicious
Damn, should have had a good gun to stop his bad one.
I don't know why people keep saying this. He DID take out the person threatening his neighborhood.
Guns don't kill people... Wait, yes they do, this article proves it.
If only there was a good gun with a gun there to save him...
Good for the gun. It had nothing to lose but its chains.
Actually it was the bullet, not the gun.
Guns don't killed people I kill people
Sounds like a comment on one of those tell me where you're from without mentioning the country type of threads.
Yet if there's any discussion about better gun safety and education it turns into "you're taking our rights away!"
That's honestly impressive.
Eh. The Darwin Awards have seen countless examples of:
- Police, firearm instructors, etc. shooting themselves.
- People “proving” (incorrectly) that a gun is unloaded by pointing it at their head & pulling the trigger.
- Hunters being shot by their dogs that step on the triggers of shotguns etc.
- People using waistbands as holsters.
- People playing Russian roulette, sometimes with semiautomatic pistols.
And on and on…
People using waistbands as holsters.
I like the cases where the perpetrator survived, but still qualified for the Darwin Award. There are a lot of reasons not to tuck a gun into your waistband, especially not in the front.
Not a gun person so no idea how common it is but I saw a YouTube short the other day of an overheated rifle discharging shots while laying on a table.
Yeah, yeah, but notice how no trash thief attacked him on his way to the dumpster thanks to him having a gun on his person!
/s
I misread this as "talking trash to dumpster" and thought "The police will come up with any excuse to shoot innocent people and make it look like a suicide now, won't they?"
You guys are making jokes but we can all be grateful he died free with his 2nd amendment rights intact. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Did he breed? Is this a Darwin Award win?
Edit: I was going to try to add to the comedy but I feel like it's not actually funny. I get the irony, but I started thinking how I'd feel if I had a family member or friend that died in such a dumb way.
Well he's in the arms of Jesus now. If there's any lesson here it's use a damn holster, people, and take your safety training seriously.
I definitely need a gun to take out my trash. You never know when trash-monsters might jump out of the dumpster and then what.
Have you been to Texas? There are trash monsters everywhere around here!
I talk shit, but I would absolutely have a firearm some places when taking out the trash. We've got a crazy feral hog problem some places. I've been trapped in a building by them. A friend got charged heading to his car by a pack of them. Another friend had his driver's side door fucked up by one while stopped at a stop sign. They will absolutely fuck you up.
Of course none of this was in San Antonio, it was all in rural Texas. I have no idea whether they're out there causing havoc.
@[email protected] care to weigh in? How bad is it out there?
Hey! So, the outskirts of San Antonio where I used to live definitely had a wildlife problem but most of the hogs here are more interested in garbage and farm fowl than attacking humans. We do have issues with foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions though.
This area from the article is an older part of San Antonio with pretty high crime levels. This is the area where you'd be more likely to feel the need to carry a gun to take out the garbage, but only because other people are carrying guns to take out the garbage.
Where I live now, we used to get somewhat frequent gunshots back when there was a party-house nearby, now it's much more seldom and sounds less... aggressive? When that happens, I just load up the shotgun and wait for about 30 minutes or so (or until the police arrive, if they even bother to come out) to make sure no one is coming into my house to harm me or my family. I'm all for hosting people, as long as they don't try to hurt me or the people I love. (If they come in to rob or steal, they probably need it more than I do, plus that's what insurance is for. No need to go blasting people over something as fleeting as stuff)
Funnily enough, my shotgun was my grandfather's that he used in his oilfields for snakes. I've never shot anything living with it and the worst snake I've seen at my house is a rat snake. My sister, on the other hand, got bit by a water moccasin when she lived out by you.
Houston doesn't fuck around with their wildlife.
I can think of a few realistic situations where someone might. Bears, geese, waterbears, meese, gators, hell you might even run into an acorn. Gotta stay safe out there.
hell you might even run into an acorn
I'm hit! I'm hit! *Does a barrel roll*
Maybe San Antonio has a trash monster problem.
^ Says man who has never encountered violence in his white-bread suburb.
I live in downtown Oakland.
Then it lays its eggs in your ear
sounds like he might have a coon problem.
those damn procyons, not humans. Obviously.
So he was carrying an unsecured weapon? It's good that he just shot himself, and not some innocent bystander.
Loaded weapons poorly carried by inbred hillbillies is a significant cause of injury and death to their betters.
Imagine how much of a pussy you have to be to need to wear a gun at all times.
From my read of the article he wasn't wearing it, he was holding it in his hands along with the trash...
What's the line of thinking on that?
Get up. Realize it's trash day and grab the trash to go outside - but wait! What if some ne'er-do-well has been lying in ambush until 6 in the fucking morning to rob me of my precious trash? Better grab my heat. Shit I'm still in my pajamas and my holster is in the other room. I'll just walk out like some romcom librarian, except instead of books I have a heap of trash and a loaded gun and the part where I trip is a lot less cute.
Idk I'm a very small woman who lives alone in a bad neighborhood. Had a man try to break in my house. He simply saw me with a gun and ran away. Don't want to imagine what he could have done if something didn't scare him away, because it wasn't my Great Dane and it damn sure wasn't me that intimidated him.
Every person commits an offence who, without lawful excuse, points a firearm at another person, whether the firearm is loaded or unloaded.
Punishment (2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1)
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-15.html#:~:text=86 (1) Every person commits,for the safety of other
It is also a felony in the states, and against the law in most countries.
Honestly if I lived in the US I probably would. Not because I feel the need to pull it out and show everyone, but because I don't want to die without a chance to defend myself.
That said - I think the fact that guns are so readily available in the US is bad and should be stopped so that people don't feel the need to carry themselves.
Edit: woah boy this comment really got some people excited. Look, I'm not pro gun and I'm not American - I'm just saying how I feel....nothing more, or less. Over here in Europe I have the luxury of not needing to even think about it...and without any desire to live in America I also don't need to think much beyond what i shared. Have a great weekend all!
I worked in the US for a long time and at no point did I ever feel the need to carry a gun around. If anybody ever did mug me they'd just get my wallet It's not worth fighting over it.
If somebody wants me dead then the gun isn't going to do me any good, how am I going to get it out of the holster in time?
Literally the ONLY way to have Prevented this was if he Shot his GUN first before his Gun could shoot HIM! LITERALLY nothing else could have Prevented this! Nothing like background checks or safe storage laws or other things to ensure only safe gun owners have Guns!
A “good guy with a gun” should have shot him first, so we wouldn’t have this problem
Guy should've just called in an airstrike on his trash
How would background checks or safe storage laws prevented this?
Presumably because they wouldn't have given the loon a gun in the first place.
One of the worst King of the Hill arcs.
Welcome to sugarfoots, sugarfoot
Still better than Lucky.
I will take an entire six season Lucky spinoff voiced by an AI Tom Petty over a Peggy heavy arc.
I really underappreciated King of the Hill when I was growing up.
A Darwin award is needed for this idiot
What POS gun goes off from a slip and fall? This sounds like some serious stupidity.
The Sig P320, a $700 pistol from a "quality" brand that was adopted as the new military standard issue pistol, would fire if dropped at the wring angle. They didn't want to have the trigger-safety mechanism that Glock and others use that includes a spring-loaded trigger lock that prevents the trigger from being pulled without something actually inside the trigger guard to pull it.
So if you dropped it at the wrong angle, it had enough inertia that when the gun hit the ground the trigger would keep moving and pull itself.
This was discovered in military trials, so they fixed the flaw (with a lighter trigger that wouldn't have as much inertia combined with a heavier trigger pull) for the military, but not for the Civilian model.
A viral YouTube video came out showing how it could be reliably fired by dropping it (the video used blanks so they weren't actually shooting wildly), and they still denied it was a problem until all the gun dealers refused to sell the gun.
They did a recall, but there's still probably a million affected guns out there.
SIG for sure has a problem with one or two of their handguns but I'm curious to know what gun this guy had.
This highlights the danger of carrying, the importance of having a quality holster with good retention, and the necessity of being properly trained in the carry and use of firearms.
Every gun in every movie I've ever watched works like that. If you drop it it fires, never made much sense.
For some reason i read man talking trash to dumpster
"What? You're just some big green box! You ain't shit! You're full of shit! What are you gonna do, sit there and smell kinda bad? Your mother was a steel mill."
Why do you think he brought the gun? That dumpster kept running its mouth.
I kept reading "Man taLking trash to a dumpster" and I was like lol get rekt noob it wasn't even armed. Then I read "dumpster with gun" and thought hmm, maybe it was. I should go to sleep.
aLWAyS CArRY oNE iN ThE CHamBER
Nature is healing itself.
Skill issue.
You know there really should be some kind of safety feature on the gun which prevents it going off just because the trigger got pulled.
Also even I know about trigger discipline, I mean come on
What could go wrong if I walk with a loaded gun with the safety off?
Nothing! This way I can shoot someone so fast that cops would envy me!
This was the most onion headline I've read and it took a long minute to realize where I was.
Sometimes the trash takes himself out.
Who prints the Darwin awards?
Read this as "man talking trash to dumpster" and figured someone's cybertruck had a BSOD or somethin.
Everyone else really dodged a bullet with this guy.
Eh that sucks. I feel bad for their family.
Police determined that the shooting was the result of a freak accident.
Hey now, he may be dumb but calling him a freak is ... oh, never mind.
Gun people are deranged.
Freedumb!
Guns don't kill people, idiots do!
Womp womp
ITT: redditors quip about old man slipping and dying in his own backyard
Skill issue
Redditors?
This is Lemmy!
Literal lost redditor.
slipping and dying
Dying of stupid. You left that part out. And since humanity's biggest threat is stupid, we get to laugh.
Yeah because dying in a stupid and completely preventable way because you're a paranoid idiot is objectively hilarious. Next question
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
