Really STUPID People

[MountainDon]

 

Man fatally shoots wife while installing satellite TV system
The Associated Press

SEDALIA, Mo. | Officials are trying to determine whether to file charges against a man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite television system in their home.

Patsy D. Long, 34, of Deep Water, was pronounced dead early Saturday evening after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.

The woman, who was outside the house, was hit by the second of two shots fired by Ronald Long, the Henry County Sheriff's Department said.

Sheriff's Department spokesman Maj. Robert Hills said a person involved in such a case normally would be charged with manslaughter, but that was up to the prosecutor.

"Once we complete a diagram of the incident, we will be submitting everything to the prosecuting attorney and let him decide if he wants to press criminal charges," Hills said.

Henry County Coroner Scott Largent declined to release details about Patsy Long's death until the Sheriff's Department completes its investigation.

[glenn kangiser]

I'm afraid this thread may get really long.

[Daddymem]

Really, how stupid.  Everyone knows you get a much better hole for the bolts with a .38....bonehead.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

At least he wasn't intentionally TRYING to shoot her... I grew up in an old pre-statehood house that had a hole in the middle of the living room floor that my mom always kept covered with a big crocheted rug.  I remember as a little kid asking her about it, and she told me that the man who lived there for a while (renting from her mom) had tried to shoot his wife and missed.  The hole would have worked fine for cable, but would have been a really dumb spot for a TV.

[glenn kangiser]

Really, how stupid.  Everyone knows you get a much better hole for the bolts with a .38....bonehead.

Leave it to an engineer to want to use the proper tool for the job.

[Redoverfarm]

I'm sorry there is nothing that can be said to justify this mans stupidity.   

[peternap]

Really, how stupid.  Everyone knows you get a much better hole for the bolts with a .38....bonehead.

Leave it to an engineer to want to use the proper tool for the job.

I just can't think of anything to top that.