No Drill, use a gun

[expat]

Need to drill a whole and you do not have drill, no problem use your gun...........and shoot your wife dead

Gun drill

And again

Matt

[a1]

Just another act of stupidity. I don't understand why a person who is licensed to have a gun would do such a stupid thing. YOu would think they would be smarter.

[C]

I was surprised to see that the location wasn't somewhere like Surbiton, but the US.

No offence to any our transatlantic friends (as I'm sure the other 99.999% of the US population are infinately more sensible), but why is it always Americans we hear about who shoot themselves/their wives/their dog whilst using a Magnum to install the satellite dish/unblock the toilet/get the wheelnuts of their car?

[Brett_Henderson]

Just another act of stupidity. I don't understand why a person who is licensed to have a gun would do such a stupid thing. YOu would think they would be smarter.

I doubt that he was licensed. Except for a few of the larger cities, you don't have to be licensed to own a firearm. Any adult without a criminal record can buy and own them. Even so..  being licensed to drive a car, doesn't stop people from doing fataly stupid things them. Stupidity can't be licensed away  ::)

Horrible tradgedy.. terrible loss for family and friends (and even for him)... but he'd have likely found some other way to do something this stupid.. eventually. People with judgement that poor, don't learn from their mistakes. They're walking catastrophies, looking for places to happen.  :(

[Fozzer]

...Mmmmmm... ...

...a novel way to cease endless nagging, and shopping trips?......!

...watch that space......!

Paul... ...!

[machineman9]

...Mmmmmm... ...

...a novel way to cease endless nagging, and shopping trips?......!

...watch that space......!

Paul... ...!

No nagging and now he can watch TV...

Jokes aside, still hopelessly stupid. He could have spent about 10 minutes with a slow moving drill, some water and a fairly long drill bit to get through that wall- my dad and I manged to drill a hole through our house to get the pond electrics working (poor fish  :-/ ) and it took a while, but it got sorted.

I just hope it teaches him to use lethal weapons for only the protection of others (yah yah, insert debate) and to be patient. Its never a clever idea to turn your house into a firing range and aim to shoot through a wall that you yourself dont know whats on the other side of.

[TacitBlue]

And I've been saying there was something wrong with the people in this state for years. Seriously though, it just blows my mind that anyone could be that stupid.

[Chris_F]

Just another act of stupidity. I don't understand why a person who is licensed to have a gun would do such a stupid thing. YOu would think they would be smarter.

The only inteligence I've had to display to attain a license is the ability to write my own name and fill out a form.  Unfortunately there isn't a lot out there to protect you from "stupid" but rest assured if he hadn't killed someone with a gun then sooner or later he'd have killed them with a car, power tool, turkey baster...

[beaky]

:-/
He thought she was inside...  ::)
And I guess he also thought none of the neighbor kids, or the mailman, or anybody else would possibly be outside, either... God forbid he should look first, or perhaps warn his wife, or maybe put something heavy outside the wall first, or... wait, what am I saying?
That would require intelligence beyond the reach of someone stupid enough to use a handgun as a power tool.

[TacitBlue]

God forbid he should look first, or perhaps warn his wife, or maybe put something heavy outside the wall first, or... wait, what am I saying?
That would require intelligence beyond the reach of someone stupid enough to use a handgun as a power tool.

If he was going to go to that much trouble, he might as well go to the hardware store and buy a cheap $20 drill.

[beaky]

God forbid he should look first, or perhaps warn his wife, or maybe put something heavy outside the wall first, or... wait, what am I saying?
That would require intelligence beyond the reach of someone stupid enough to use a handgun as a power tool.

If he was going to go to that much trouble, he might as well go to the hardware store and buy a cheap $20 drill.

Uh, yeah, there's that too.

This accident is so outrageously stupid, I'm starting to think it was no accident.   :-/
"Uh... I was... I was installing cable, officer... yeah, that's it... had no idea she was out there..."

[Chris_F]

God forbid he should look first, or perhaps warn his wife, or maybe put something heavy outside the wall first, or... wait, what am I saying?
That would require intelligence beyond the reach of someone stupid enough to use a handgun as a power tool.

If he was going to go to that much trouble, he might as well go to the hardware store and buy a cheap $20 drill.

Uh, yeah, there's that too.

This accident is so outrageously stupid, I'm starting to think it was no accident.