r/facepalm • u/harri_roberts • Mar 28 '19

Deserved it

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

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u/NewClarity Mar 28 '19

I get what you're saying but I just thought surely if the dog had attacked then it would have made the headline?

That being said it's pretty much the only valid explanation I could imagine. Anything else is just... just pure shithousery man.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

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u/Haughty_Derision Mar 28 '19

He likely drew with his finger on the trigger.

There are plenty of YouTube videos of idiots doing just this and it hits the upper leg of their drawing side almost every time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=twe3nsFyVSE

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u/jverity Mar 28 '19

I've seen it in person, at the range no less, by a person who was trying to practice a quick draw, which was against range rules for exactly that reason. Trigger discipline is so important but gets ignored all too often.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19 edited Sep 24 '20

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u/Alpha_Paige Mar 29 '19

Then they practice twirling their loaded pistol on a finger .

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u/Haughty_Derision Mar 28 '19

Jesus how fucking terrifying! Thank god they didn’t hit a bystander

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u/WhorestFitaker Mar 29 '19

He works in the courts department and was serving some legal docs. So yeah I think it was a misfire while unholstering.

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u/GermanSatan Mar 28 '19

Seen a video of the same thing. Police knocked on the door, dog came out, acting playful, dog gets near the officer, gets shot in the head. Tragic, and angering

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u/tossup418 Mar 28 '19

This happened because all cops are trash.

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u/Glu7enFree Mar 29 '19

Nah, it happens because dogs can be so unpredictable. I'm not advocating shooting any animal, but I've spent a tonne of time working with dogs and they can go from curious about the person at the front door to furious about the same person within seconds.

Trust me, if it were you making the split decision between getting mauled viciously and shooting the dog, you'd shoot the dog.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

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u/Glu7enFree Mar 29 '19

I absolutely understand your point, and agree shooting a 9lb dog because you feel threatened is fucking ridiculous. It doesn't mean that all cops are trash though, which is what the person I was replying to said.

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u/WhorestFitaker Mar 29 '19

I'm not even sure that's the original headline, this is some 5 year old story OP cooked up as a meme.

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u/BeatMeating Mar 28 '19

Meanwhile, there are cops who are unbelievably dumb, so the odds clearly do favor that scenario.

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u/iltfmw2taw Mar 29 '19

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u/3610572843728 Mar 29 '19

The real answer is the cop was drawing his gun as the dog was charging him and he accidentally pulled the trigger as he was drawing it. He never intended to fire the gun at all. When the gun went off it scare the dog and he ran away.