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2021-06-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Texas boy, 9, accidentally shot by father during alleged road rage incident

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Posted by Fred 2021-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Apparently the only law in Texas concerning stupidity is Darwin's Law.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-06-14 07:18|| 2021-06-14 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 There is more to this. I don't even see how this was physically possible.

Posted by Silentbrick 2021-06-14 09:21|| 2021-06-14 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 11pm, Friday night, in the fifth ward.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-06-14 11:13|| 2021-06-14 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 11pm, friday night, in the fifth ward.
Are you sure it wasn't the kid's gun?

Posted by ed in texas 2021-06-14 11:14|| 2021-06-14 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I have never seen one "accidentally" go off. Had to have had his finger on the triger.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-06-14 16:38|| 2021-06-14 16:38|| Front Page Top

#6 That kid, God grant him a long life, is never riding with his dad again.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-14 17:28|| 2021-06-14 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Fifth Ward Hard, or, Father's Day in... sorry, cheap shot.

"Yo, take the wheel, sonny, it's show time...
I'll learn 'em who's b[ang]... gotta go time!
Oh shit, you been hit?
I don't like that one bit,
So hold this and you'll be out in no time!"

Posted by Jeremiah de Medici9220 2021-06-14 19:14|| 2021-06-14 19:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Also, dammit, nobody tells me nothin'...

Farewell and adieu to you, Burt's,
A onetime Houstonian blurts,
Who, though not a native,
Ate many a plate of
Your worst. We'd moved on... but it hurts.

Posted by Jeremiah de Medici9220 2021-06-14 19:22|| 2021-06-14 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Once they arrived home, the father tried to put his gun back into its holster
So it wasn't during the road rage incident, but after

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-14 20:18|| 2021-06-14 20:18|| Front Page Top

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