Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself view story

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dallasnews.com — A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself. Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m...

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  1. As MrBabyMan pointed out, we have a serious contender for the darwin award.

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  2. @calinazaret
    win.

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  3. @nowsourcing I thought so. I was going to say fail, but it's so epic that it turns into win.

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  4. @calinazaret
    yes. It's so fail, it's win. Even for Texas.

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  5. Im glad to here he's not from Alabama

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  6. Lucky guy! :)

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  7. He lived, a clear sign that survival of the fittest no longer applies to mankind.

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  8. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,”

    what did they think the loud bang was, a party popper?

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  9. @jansie That's my question. Anyone who's hear a gun fire in real life knows how incredible loud it is. In movies it's just *pop* *pop* but it's a different story in reality. There's no way they could have missed the sound.

    Maybe they thought he shot the gun but not at himself. My Dad has this habit of shooting at stray animals that wander into his yard to scare them away, so gunfire can be heard around his place fairly often.

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  10. Sounds like a Darwin Awards finalist to me!

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  11. @Honest_Ape
    yep, if things like this can happen then I think we're doomed.

    @kdfrawg
    absafrigginlutely.

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  12. @kdfrawg
    I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can only win Darwin Awards posthumously. So, this idiot doesn't quite make it into the running. If he died, on the other hand, he'd have it almost assuredly nailed.

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  13. @Honest_Ape - OMG, you're right! Maybe we need a special category for near-Darwin Award dimbulbs. ;o)

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  14. @Honest_Ape Acording to wikipedia, you have to be either dead or rendered sterile. Therefore, if he shot off his balls he could still be a winner. Winner of suck.

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  15. Lots of fu(%ed up shi$ goes down at 3 in the morning.

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85397_24 calinazaret submitted this on May 13, 2008.