Man Accidentally Shoots Himself While Scratching His Back With A Gun

Perhaps this incident will show up in next year’s Darwin Awards, but for now it makes for an interesting read.

Seems Jorge Espinal had been playing poker with friends. Well, not just playing poker, but drinking beer and playing poker. Apparently Jorge got up from the table and went into another room. He felt an itch on his back and he picked up the first thing he could find, A PISTOL, and tried to use it to scratch the itch with it.

You can figure out where this is going. The gun went off and he ended up shooting himself. When he returned to the game, his friends didn’t believe him until they saw the blood running down his back. I guess the gunshot was not a clue?

He was treated at the hospital and released. I suspect he will think twice about using a pistol for a back scratcher again. Perhaps a shotgun would wlrk better, it’s longer and the sights on shotguns make for better scratching!