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EARTHDATE: May 18, 2008

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REAL LIFE NEWS: HOW NOT TO SCRATCH YOUR BACK

by Hazed

Some people really are too dumb to live, and it's just pure good luck that the guy in this story is still around so we can laugh at him to his face rather than posthumously.

Jorge Espinal, a 44 year old man from Fort Worth, used a revolver to scratch an itch on his back, and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge was drinking beer (yes, folks, alcohol was involved in this incident - presumably quite a lot) and playing poker in the early hours of the morning one weekend. He got up from the table and walked into another room, where, as he told officers, "he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver. The gun went off."

Guns don't kill people, itchy backs kill people.

Mr Espinal went back into the room and told his buddies he'd shot himself. "They didn't believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back," said Lt Dean from the Forth Worth police. He was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released.


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