Oct
Dog Shoots Man
In a nice twist on the old newsroom headline joke “Dog bites man”, here we have a beautiful tale of the trigger happy canine shooting his hunting owner.
The BBC faithfully reports:
A man out hunting in Iowa was shot in the leg after a hunting dog stepped on his gun, authorities said.
The accident happened after James Harris, 37, put his gun on the ground to retrieve a fallen pheasant.
One of a pack of hunting dogs following behind stepped on the trigger, and up to 120 birdshot pellets hit Mr Harris in the left calf at short range.
A local official told a news agency the injury was “not life-threatening, but will give him trouble for a long time”.
Alan Foster, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, told AFP it was not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs. Source.
“Not uncommon”. Interesting.
