Colorado man shoots himself while trying to shoot raccoon

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Colorado man attempting to shoot raccoon shoots himself
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police say a 67-year-old Colorado man attempting to shoot a raccoon on a utility pole shot himself in the lower leg instead.

The shooting was reported just after midnight Tuesday on the southeast side of Colorado Springs.

Colorado Springs police say the man was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Seems to me white males from Colorado Springs have a particular dislike for -coons. In his haste to dispatch the perceived intruder to his paradise of racial purity, this gentleman must have forgotten his trigger discipline. An unintended outcome due to excitement in finding an excuse to display his firearm potency, not unlike blowing his load before...
Oh never mind.
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What’s going on in Colorado? FBI Agent shots bystander in bar after showing his gymnastics ability. Now we have a guy shooting himself in leg while trying to subdue a raccoon. I wonder if he was shooting a Glock with one of those leg seeking bullets.
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CDFingers wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:02 am I prefer the kitchen broom as the proper anti raccoon weapon. Yes, it's true: I've swept myself while dealing with them wretched trash pandas.

CDFingers
Did you sweep yourself with your 9mm hand broom or your 30/06 long broom or the 12 ga push broom? :D
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I wonder if this raccoon is kin to the one that climbs skyscrapers?
At about 2:30 a.m. local time, a grainy live feed from St. Paul showed a shadowy little figure scurrying up and onto the top of a 25-story building, prompting an almost audible sigh of relief from the internet.
For hours on Tuesday, Twitter users followed the exploits of the daredevil free-climbing raccoon. The drama started after maintenance workers removed the creature from the roof of a St Paul office block.
Not prepared to take a hint, it headed to the neighboring UBS tower -- one of the tallest buildings in the city.
Then it started to climb.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/us/racco ... index.html
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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DougMasters wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:11 pm Wasn't there a statistic I read somewhere? Something about the odds being 500 times more likely to have your gun used against you by a raccoon than the odds of defending yourself against the raccoon?

I'm pretty sure I read that on the internet. I think we all know what really happened here.
Raccoon was quoted "I was trying to just take it away from him when it discharged. I was in fear of my life." :D
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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TrueTexan wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:12 pm I wonder if this raccoon is kin to the one that climbs skyscrapers?
At about 2:30 a.m. local time, a grainy live feed from St. Paul showed a shadowy little figure scurrying up and onto the top of a 25-story building, prompting an almost audible sigh of relief from the internet.
For hours on Tuesday, Twitter users followed the exploits of the daredevil free-climbing raccoon. The drama started after maintenance workers removed the creature from the roof of a St Paul office block.
Not prepared to take a hint, it headed to the neighboring UBS tower -- one of the tallest buildings in the city.
Then it started to climb.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/us/racco ... index.html
Hot Damn! That bad raccoon free-climbed it!
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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