The best story ever about guns, cars and walking appeared in the Los Angeles papers this week.
On New Years’ Day 2011, a 21 year old man, name of Dennis Vilchis
found himself in Hawthorne, trying to cross the street near the
the intersection of Prairie Avenue and El Segundo Boulevard.
He reckoned he had the right of way, the driver of a car felt differently.
So naturally enough Dennis pulled out a handgun and brandished it. Brandishing is one of the things people do with handguns. And to give him some credit he appears to have intended nothing more than a good brandishing, because he then put the gun back in his pants pocket.
At which point the gun went off and he shot himself in the leg and ended up in hospital in a serious condition.
The punchline of the story, as it was told in the LA Times, was that “Detectives are reviewing the incident for possible criminal charges.”
It would be a terrible shame if Dennis found himself in jail and had to explain to fellow inmates what he did to get himself locked up.
