Only In America ...

[madcat]

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of
Mr. Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun
wound to the head.

Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to
commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.
As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun
blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety
net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect
some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been
able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "Someone who sets out to
commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the
mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing
suicide. "
That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not
have
been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical
examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated,
was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously
and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that
when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and
the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject "A" but kills subject "B" in
the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B."
When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife
were both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgun was not
loaded.

The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with
the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the
killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun
had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the
old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to
the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's
financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his
father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the
expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty
of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The
case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of
Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist.
Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus.
He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt
to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story
building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing
through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself!, so
the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

A true story from Associated Press, (Reported by Kurt
Westervelt)


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Now THAT is bad luck!!!

MadCat

It's hard to imagine that it can happen to a person! It's terrible! ops:

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by earthie

It's hard to imagine that it can happen to a person! It's terrible! ops:

But very funny :-P

The Guru

[Pimpess]

Funny and silly... Hard to believe that it could actually happen...

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Pimpess

Funny and silly... Hard to believe that it could actually happen...

It's hard to believe that many stupid things happen, but they do ;-)


Mike ...

Stupid people happen too!!!

[madcat]

Stupid people happen too!!!

They certainly do unfortunately...

I think they are here on earth to pose challenges to the clever people!!! The challenge is to not lose your temper and swear at them!!!!


MadCat

[Pimpess]

Or strangle them... Swearing won't put you in jail but murder will...

My best advise is to just walk away when they start with their quirks...

[kazthorn]

Only in America indeed...

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[Mike]

Totally Bonkers