Iowa man shot by his own dog

[bullwinkle428]

Move over, Florida - we're giving you a run for your money!!

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 laid down beside him and cried because he thought he had done something wrong.

Police Chief Roger Porter called the shooting a freakish occurrence.

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Iowa-man-says-his-dog-shot-him-while-they-were-playing-482294461.html

[MFM008]

1. Animals need to learn

To shoot back.

[Blue_Adept]

18. May I introduce you to Animosity...

http://aftershockcomics.com/animosity/

"One day, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking revenge. Now, a dog and his girl are trying to get away--out of New York City, and all the way to San Francisco, to the only person who might be able to protect and save her. "

[MFM008]

36. Cool

[lapfog_1]

2. Should have shot his nuts off

to prevent someone so stupid from reproducing.

Seriously, rough housing with you dog on the couch with a loaded weapon in your waist band?

[Mike Nelson]

3. I'm sure the...

...NRA will want guns given to all dogs, now...

[appalachiablue]

39. If there'd been a good dog with a gun there...

[True Dough]

4. Damn near Balew his leg off!

Bad Balew!

[ProudLib72]

8. Doggone it, he's missing a leg!

[True Dough]

15. Sounds like a case for the K-9 millimeter unit!

Officers Smith and Wesson should be equal to the task.

[ProudLib72]

16. This guy ought to cur(b) his enthusiasm for guns

Or these sorts of problems will hound him for the rest of his life.

[True Dough]

30. You're right

If he can't quit guns cold turkey, he should at least move to a snub-nose model...

[ProudLib72]

34. Ha! Pugs know best

If you lie down with guns, expect to get up with bullet holes.

[Rorey]

5. In his belly band?

I wonder what it's like to be so paranoid about the world that one would feel a need to wear a gun in one's belly band while sitting on one's own couch in one's own home.

Or he's just a typical gun nut idiot.

[Locrian]

21. not only that

carrying it "cocked and locked" (well, not so locked) - and "ready to go"

I never understood the carry thing. Especially how it HAS to be quick-draw ready like they're instantly ready to slap leather.
Heaven forbid the "bad guy" gets a drop on you.

I really wonder if a lot of these accidents increased with the "striker fire" type guns that most people carry now -which are inevitably carried "cocked"

I feel sorry for the paranoia and fear these guys (and it's mostly guys) feel

[ProudLib72]

6. Wait, who in this situation was the potential "good guy with a gun"?

[DBoon]

7. More like a "good boy" with a gun

"are you a good boy? Yes you are!"

[Stallion]

22. "Such a Good Dog"!!!

[NCTraveler]

9. The dog ate his homework. That's what he's going with? Nt

[Sneederbunk]

10. The dog thought the guy was reaching for his belly band.

[Ms. Toad]

11. Guns don't kill people - dogs kill people.

But do they have to be pit bulls, nursing in the Olive Garden?

[3catwoman3]

12. Freakish occurence or...

...freakin' stupid.

One of my husband's friends keeps a gun in every room of his house. When he told my husband about this, my hubby asked, "Even in the bathroom?" The answer was , "Yes."

My husband has known this guy since they met while serving in Viet Nam. I've known him since the mid-1980s. Upon learning about this gun nuttery last October, my husband's statement to me was, "If I weren't his friend already, I don't think I'd be his friend now."

[Mariana]

20. Sounds like a crock to me.

I bet he was playing with his gun, fondling it, playing quick-draw, spinning it, or some such stupid shit and shot himself. He's too embarrassed to tell the truth, so he's blaming it on that poor dog.

[Bantamfancier]

13. I'm willing to bet

that the dog is taking the rap for his master being a dumbass who went to scratch his navel and shot himself.

[gratuitous]

14. Yeah, I notice how the dog wasn't contacted for his side of things

"My hooman? {Shakes head} Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. If it wasn't for the snausages, I'd have been out of here years ago."

[backtoblue]

32. Lol!

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Funny Stuff!

Snausages! You're a riot!

[womanofthehills]

17. It's all that pesticide in Iowa's water

[Vinca]

19. Why the hell does the fool need to be armed while playing with his dog?

Jeeeeeezzzzzzzzzus - gun nuts are afraid of their own shadows.

[OnDoutside]

23. Wow, that's ruff......

[edbermac]

24. "Go ahead...make my day!"

[LisaL]

25. Playing with a large dog while wearing a gun. What could go wrong?

[get the red out]

26. Walking around with a gun in your own house

Weirder than the dog "shooting" him.

[Corgigal]

27. Playing, eh?

Is that what the dog told ya?

[elleng]

28. disabled the safety on the gun in his belly band and stepped on the trigger.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. We knew it had to come to this...

[bottomofthehill]

31. bullshit

he shot himself and is blaming the dog

[sarisataka]

33. Bad dog

Although a dog who can jump take the safety off on a gun and fire it well it is in a belly band all without the benefit of opposable thumbs has a future on America's Got Talent as the trick shooting dog.

Unless of course we're not getting all of the story, like Maybe a human booger picker touching the bang switch

[struggle4progress]

35. "Only a good guy with a gun can stop a dog with a gun!"

[ProfessorGAC]

38. No Matter How We Slice It. . .

. . .this guy is a buffoon. Wearing a loaded gun in the house, roughhousing with a pit bull, and he gets shot. If he's telling the truth, he's a fool. If he's making this up, he's a fool and a liar.