Man shoots self while scratching back

Man shoots self while scratching back

01:43 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
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A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.

â??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,â?� Lt. Dean said. â??The gun went off."

Mr. Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. â??They didnâ??t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,â?� Lt. Dean said.

Mr. Espinal was taken to an area hospital, where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Really? The gun was the only thing "just laying around"? He couldn't find a pen or something?

It probably made him feel like a badass to use his gun.

and now he knows he's an idiot for messing with a loaded gun when he's fucked up.

Exactly.

He was THIS close from earning a Darwin award.

Wow thats really funny but he is lucky to be alive good thing it wasnt a 44 magnum.

Or a shotgun!

The buck shot would leave him without an ass.



He'd be minus an ass.

Lucky for him the itch was on his back and not his balls.


Reminds me of a story --- a backscratcher story, not a shoot-yourself-in-the-ass story. I had a coworker who had a bamboo backscratcher at work. She would let you borrow it if you had an unreachable itch in the middle of your back. Out of courtesy you would usually use it OUTSIDE your clothes, just scratch your back through your shirt. One day our receptionist came in and asked if she could use the scratcher and put it right down her shirt and started scratching her back like crazy! After a minute or two of wild scratching someone asked her what was going on and she said, "I've got this horrible itchy rash all over my back!" Nice.

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Lucky for him the itch was on his back and not his balls.


Reminds me of a story --- a backscratcher story, not a shoot-yourself-in-the-ass story. I had a coworker who had a bamboo backscratcher at work. She would let you borrow it if you had an unreachable itch in the middle of your back. Out of courtesy you would usually use it OUTSIDE your clothes, just scratch your back through your shirt. One day our receptionist came in and asked if she could use the scratcher and put it right down her shirt and started scratching her back like crazy! After a minute or two of wild scratching someone asked her what was going on and she said, "I've got this horrible itchy rash all over my back!" Nice.

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Hahahahahah



Did you burn it?

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Hahahahahah



Did you burn it?

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Ha ha! I just remember my coworker standing there holding the scratcher with just the her one finger and her thumb like she didn't even want to touch it. I think she either tossed it out or gave it to the receptionist to keep.

That receptioist was a constant source of amusement. We had a roach coach truck that would come by and sell food in the industrial park, and every day she would go out and get a pack of Ho Hos. She said, "I'd do anything for a Ho Ho. I guess I'm sort of a Ho Ho Ho."

Every Friday at about 4pm the boss would send someone to the store with $100 cash to pick up beers, sodas, and snacks, and we'd spend the last hour of the week eating and drinking and goofing off. He sent me to the store with this receptionist one time, and while we were at the store she picked up a home pregnancy test kit. I didn't even ask, but she launched into this whole story about how the cheesy FedEx guy had been flirting with her for the last couple of weeks and she finally gave in to his advances. Maybe he enticed her with a Ho Ho, I don't know. First they tried to do it in the office-supply closet in the reception area, but that was too scetchy, so she had met him around the corner in a parking lot, and they did the deed in the back of the FedEx truck. They didn't use any kind of protection or birth control, so that was why she wanted the test. He's probably the one who gave her the itchy rash too. We started calling him "Mr. Speedy Delivery." Eventually his wife found out and followed him around to every office on his route and warned all the women to keep away from her husband. Someone mentioned it to FeEx, and he got fired that same day.

So after the FedeX guy was out of the picture, she hooked up with a guy who had "5150" tatooed right across his forehead. This guy was covered in prison tats. They moved in together, and a few days later she just didn't come in to work --- never called or anything. Someone in our office started checking around just to see if she was OK and eventually the story came out that the guy had been arrested in some very very serious shit, and the police had advised her that her life was in danger just for being associated with him, and she had better move out and not follow any of her usual patterns, including going to work. So we spent the next week wondering if armed killers were going to come to the office looking for her.

A year or so later, a coworker ran into her at a store. She was unmarried, had one kid, and was pregnant, and she had joined the Jehova's Witness. So I guess everything turned out just great!

Hahahahaha omg.

Some people man, some people.

LOL

(Glad to see you back reb girl);)

Haha thanks babe.

It's good to be back. I missed this place.
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