Florida woman shoots husband in testicles after learning of affair, police say

[dixiegrrrrl]

A Florida woman is accused of shooting her husband of 16 years after learning he was having an affair.

Victoria Reid, 60, of Melbourne was arrested in Brevard County, Fla. and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault, kidnapping and shooting or throwing a missile into a dwelling, jail records show.

Police say Reid threatened to shoot her husband in the face and kill him, CBS 12 reported. She is accused, though, of shooting him in the knee. The bullet ricocheted and ended up in his testicles.

The man's condition wasn't released.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/04/florida_woman_shoots_husband_i.html#incart_river_home

Damn, she wasn't even aiming for that area.

Gov. Bentley may be glad his wife only taped his sex calls.

[KamaAina]

1. Does he get a Darwin Award?

Having an affair could well be considered the requisite act of stupidity.

[Orrex]

2. I don't think a deliberate act by another person qualifies

However stupid the victim's actions, unless those actions themselves result in removal from the genepool, it's not a Darwin Award contender.

But IANAL, so...

[KamaAina]

4. But he provoked the deliberate act by having an affair

[Orrex]

5. Maybe, but that's not quite the spirit of the thing

He may have done a dumb thing (assuming the claim is true), but he didn't zap himself in the process of committing the stupidity. That's the key. A retaliatory act by another person is outside of the parameters.


For instance, if I don't wear a seatbelt while four-wheeling in my Jeep, that's stupid, and if I castrated myself in the process, then that would be a Darwin. But if I get home and my pal beats me to death for my stupidity, then that's not a Darwin.

IMO, of course.

[NobodyHere]

6. He erred by marrying a psycho.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

3. Hopefully she gets a long sentence as befitting a violent psycho