News in Brief: Dog Walker Shoots Himself

A man from Palm Bay, Florida put the lie to the notion that everyone who has a weapons permit is actually competent last Tuesday when, while out for a stroll with his pooch, he accidentally pulled the trigger on himself.

He was walking down a busy roadway, and brought the gun along because he didn't feel safe. Because a gun will be effective against an out-of-control car, of course.

Instead, the man proved to be his own greatest safety risk, and ended up in the Palm Bay Community Hospital. Adding embarrassment to injury, hospital staff had to notify police, as per local laws, that they were treating a gunshot victim. The police, then, were obligated to investigate, which, in turn, resulted in a public-record report appearing in the local news.