To her point of view she was shooting a turkey at Thanksgiving:
Now comes another reason to stay put in the La-Z-Boy: A man sitting in his easy chair was shot in the head by his wife, but the sturdy recliner absorbed most of the bullet's force and left him virtually unscathed.The couple had been arguing at home on Sunday evening, said Contra Costa County sheriff's Lt. Charles Skuce. Then Jan Kamp stood behind her seated husband and fired a gun at the back of his head, Skuce said.
Because she fired through the recliner, the bullet only slightly wounded Norman Kamp, 57, Skuce said.
Norman stood up from his chair, followed his wife into the kitchen and declared, "You shot me," according to authorities.
A heck of a way to get out of cooking, isn't it? She'll get a nice meal down at the lock-up.
The caliber of the gun isn't mentioned in the article and it should be. If it were some little pop-gun, of course a chair would stop it.
Posted by floridacracker at November 21, 2006 11:21 PMMy wife has always refused to let me get one of the blessed chairs. Every so often we have the same argument (" I gotta get me a lazy-boy 'cause they're the world's most comfy seating" vs. " No way! they're too tacky for My house!"). This story gives me a whole new reason to get one, no matter what she says.
Posted by: Carl in Atlanta at November 22, 2006 05:21 AMmight be a great selling point for Laz-y-Boy.. My family thought they would do something nice for me and got me one of those massage chairs. Not the metal plate in the bottom vibrator deal..this is one of those 'crack your back' things. NO way would a
.44 pass through, so I am SAFE ! whew.
Donnah, when I rode the ambulance for a while, we 'transported' a guy who walked up to us one evening exclaiming "That son of a bitch shot me !" Sure enough, he had a hole right in the center of his sternum..left by a .38 cal.
Apparantly, he and his buddy had gathered up their
'can money' and went for a beer run. The 'victim'
insisted he was owed more of the beer than previously agreed to, an arguement ensued, and he shot him.
I'll never forget putting a 4x4 over the hole and strapping his cussing, insane, dirty self to the
board... he bitched all the way to ER.
On a side note:
My wife knows..I would not have said "You shot me"
hell no...
This could be a strong supporting argument for leaving the TeflonŽ on the pans and off of the (commercially available) ammo. On the flip-side, I don't see a strong demand for La-Z-Boy body armor.
Posted by: tfhr at November 22, 2006 11:00 AMSomeone made a comment at Lucianne that made me laugh: "No woman ever shot her husband while he was washing dishes." Heh.
Posted by: Donnah at November 23, 2006 10:57 AMThat should be for one reason - she was too busy taking out the garbage AND pulling PMCS on the POVs because it was her turn on the roster.
Posted by: tfhr at November 24, 2006 10:59 AM