Bail bondsman tries to unload gun in Ft Wayne hospital.

[ileus]

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20111009/LOCAL07/310099912

About 12:30 p.m., police officers were called to assist the security officers. Police learned that the bondsman had a handgun, and as he was trying to unload the gun by taking a round out of the chamber, the gun fired. No injuries were reported.

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You don't unload a firearm in public...what a stupid move.

[rfranklin]

1. Another useful post!

Thanks for your diligence.

[SteveM]

2. You should see this one!...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x467610

I've NEVER seen such an artistic display of literary abstract expressionism in my life; it approaches nihilism.

[rl6214]

3. HOLY SHIT

Another hidden criminal.


Ban Bailbondsmen.

Do it for the children.

[ileus]

6. but what about the criminals needing to make bail?

forget the children.....criminals need freedom.

[rl6214]

7. I understand

He's just a hidden criminal that goes out, buys every baser instinct gun and attachment, goes home to practice his fast draw in front of the mirror and then fantasize about every possible senario he can think of where he could use a gun or two. Then he goes out with said gun or two strapped to his body to play John Wayne or some other cowboy hero.

He does need his bail bondsman.

[Katya Mullethov]

12. What about the thrusting ?

Was there trouser thrusting of any sort ?

[gravity556]

4. You don't unload a gun in public unless you are familiar with how that particular gun works.

Unfortunately, cops think that being cops makes them gun experts too-ever seen COPS where an officer had to try and figure out how to unload a single action revolver? I actually saw one where the cop was unloading a 1911-by repeatedly yanking the slide back, rather than dropping the mag.

Safety note, kiddies, sometimes the ejector gets moved a bit-not a problem when fired brass is all it's ejecting, but a major problem when live primers are slamming into it repeatedly. He was very lucky he didn't get an OOB discharge.

Besides, this sounds like someone pulled the trigger on a loaded chamber. Which made the gun do what guns do-fire a tiny piece of lead incredibly fast.

[ileus]

5. Loaded SD firearm should never leave it's holster in public.

unless of course it's used for self defense...

[Hoyt]

8. Problem is -- as this incident indicates -- folks who carry guns don't follow the safety rules.

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. You're familiar with *how* many of the several million of them, again?

Thought so.
You should get a windmill built- all that wind going to waste...

[chrisa]

11. Or at all.

This bail bondsman was very dumb.

[petronius]

9. I'm a bit confused: if the police were called because the bondsman was refusing to leave

and apparently causing a disturbance, why were they letting him handle his firearm at all, even to unload it? Sounds like a pretty unsafe move by the officers.

Unless it was a police officer trying to unload the gun, and the story is unclear? :shrug:

[jmg257]

13. Ahh - the bondsman was unloading the gun to hand it over...

"Police said while the bondman was taking bullets out of the gun to hand over to officers, it accidently discharged inside the building."

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/gun-goes-off-in-parkview-hospital

Brilliance all around.

[GKirk]

14. "You don't unload a firearm in public..."

Sometimes you have to. Like when the police order you to. Although odd that the police would order him to unload, I have to assume he was well known to the police, most bondsmen are.

He certainly doesn't get an 'A' on his report card for safe gun handling he did at least keep the barrel pointed in a
safe direction while performing the act.