Reply #94: Pistol under pillow shoots sleeping man (WA)

[MrBenchley]

Have to consider the source and take this with a grain of salt, but....

"GRANITE FALLS, Wash, April 3 (UPI) -- A man in Granite Falls, Wash., who slept with a pistol beneath his pillow woke up one morning last week to find the gun had gone off and shot him.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Saturday that the man, who was not identified, went to bed Thursday night with a loaded .22-caliber revolved tucked under his pistol. Sometime during the night, the gun discharged and shot him in the chest, but he apparently didn't realize he was wounded until he awoke early Friday.
He was able to get to a telephone, dial 911, and walk to his front yard to wait for an ambulance. "

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040403-081011-8588r.htm

As they used to sing on MST3K:

"We're a danger to ourselves and others.
Screw the earth and steal our mothers.
Leave us in the woods and we're just fine.
We're a danger to ourselves and others.
Good livestock with better lovers...."