There's A Right Way and A Wrong Way ...

[nightdog_barks]

From Deepwater, Missouri -- a guy was trying to install a satellite TV system and he needed to drill a hole through an exterior wall. Apparently none of his tools was doing the trick.

So he used his handgun, shot through the wall, and killed his wife who was standing on the other side.

I couldn't make this up if I tried.

Comments

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Darwin Award by association? Seriously, it's terrible, but at the same time... *shakes head*

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

I feel so bad for their kids, who are now going to have to grow up knowing that their dad accidentally shot their mom.

I noticed that there's no word yet whether this guy will be charged with a crime, given the accidental nature of the shooting. On the one hand I feel like he ought to be charged and on the other I wonder how much he's going to suffer, already, for the rest of his life.

I think about things too much.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

In cases like that, prosecutors often will consider that the guilt people have to bear for killing their loved ones is punishment enough. I bet that's what they'll do this time, because if they put him away, his children would be wards of the state.

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

Charging him with undue caution and public endangerment (or whatever the equivalent charge would be in that part of the world) certainly is warranted, but he is also suffering enough. Also at this point a criminal record for a weapons offense could endanger his ability to find and/or keep work, and therefore add unnecessarily to the hardship his family is already experiencing.