#435 Call Negligence Negligence and Stop Calling Gun Negligence an Accident

Unrelated image, at least her finger isn't on the trigger...

Off-Duty Cop Accidentally Shoots Roommate In Head While Showing Off New Gun

Let's rewrite that headline properly. Off-Duty Moronic Cop Negligently Shoots Roommate in Head While Showing Off New Gun.

The first thing I learned before I ever picked up a firearm was to never, ever, EVER point a firearm at anything you didn't want dead or to have a hole in it.

This stupid cop skipped that day of training and shot his roommate in the head with his new pistol. The housemate isn't dead so it was likely a grazing hit but that doesn't, in ANY WAY, ameliorate the ridiculously negligent discharge of the firearm.

Cops are supposed to be trained in safely handling deadly weapons and this guy nearly killed his buddy. Stories like this do not engender faith in the law enforcement community.

There is nothing accidental about pulling the trigger on a gun. No wait, there are potential circumstances where an accidental discharge can occur. This wasn't one of them. He was being negligent and nearly killed someone as a result.

No mention if he was put on leave pending the investigation but probably not.

Oh, and if someone wants to show you their new gun, MAKE THEM UNLOAD IT BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. And then go ahead and still treat it like an angry and deadly snake just waiting to kill you when you let your guard down.

Treating a deadly weapon casually is how these avoidable and not-accidental shooting deaths continue to occur. The mom killed by her toddler at Walmart didn't secure her weapon properly and ended up dying by how own child's hand.

Do these morons just leave poisons and knives laying around too?

Rule #435 is
Call Negligence Negligence and Stop Calling Gun Negligence an Accident

#423 Come for the Low Prices, Stay for the Nimrods Shooting Themselves in the Checkout...

Pistol-packing people of Walmart: Indiana man charged after gun goes off in checkout line, the article does not say he was fondling the gun absentmindedly while waiting to pay for his pre-landfill Made in China schlock but I'm going to presume he was.

This idiot, Kenneth Pirtle, is lucky he didn't kill himself or someone else with his poor firearm safety habits. If your gun is loaded and ready to fire in your pocket then you had better take precautions to avoid unintentional discharges. Keeping a round in the chamber and the safety off sounds badass but it is really just dumb as hell.

And let's note, this was a 65 year old man who accidentally fired his weapon while waiting in a checkout line at Walmart. Last I checked, Walmart isn't a seriously dangerous place to shop but maybe it is, I don't know. I do know that needing a gun to go shopping at Walmart would be a strong indicator to me that their deals aren't really worth it (hint, they never are worth it).

And yet another good reason to stay away from Wally World altogether (the Walton family is another reason, they are the tightest billionaires on the planet, donating a paltry 0.04% of their fortunes).

Rule #423 is Come for the Low Prices, Stay for the Nimrods Shooting Themselves in the Checkout...

#377 Punishing the Messenger is Stupid

Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension

The story: Substitute teacher falls asleep in class, student uses cellphone to snap a picture to show to administrators who promptly bust student for violating school policy against use of cellphones during school. Punish the messenger and, more or less, disregard the message.

Rather than thank the student for bringing to their attention a grossly negligent substitute teacher, the administrators at the Oklahoma school punish the messenger because he broke a school policy of not using telecommunications devices during the school day.

So, if he'd used a digital camera without a cellular connection to take the photo, then taken that camera to the computer lab at the school or home to download it and then email it to the administrators, then everything would be hunky dorey? I doubt it. Seems like these administrators were embarrassed by this teacher's dereliction of duty and sought to diminish the messenger to avoid the message.

The school officials refused to comment on what sort of disciplinary action might befall the sleepy teacher but they were all too happy to discuss the student getting suspended for breaking their stupid rule.

What if the kid had used his cell phone to record a violent crime being committed? Would they still suspend him? Zero-tolerance policies are almost always used in places where people are too friggin' stupid to be able to think for themselves.

I feel bad for people who live in Oklahoma, there's a good reason it's firmly on my fly-over list. I'm sure there are good people in Oklahoma and probably nice things to do but if a state institution is being run by ignorant bureaucratic jackasses then I'd just as soon not visit or contribute my money to their stupidity. And that's money I have a choice over, did you know that most of these backwards ass stupid states take waaay more in Federal aid than they give back? Yeah. And then they have Tea Party rallies to decry entitlements. Dumbasses.

 Rule #377 is Punishing the Messenger is Stupid

#336 Do Your Damned Job, Especially When Your Job Entails Security from Terroristic Actions

At Least 27 Honolulu TSA Officers Under Probe - Honolulu News Story - KITV Honolulu

The job of a TSA screen is to screen passengers and luggage for prohibited items including bombs or weapons.

These 27 agents just decided to not check luggage for months at a time. They are incredibly damned lucky nothing happened that resulted in anyone dying from their outrageous negligence. Because if that had happened then I think every single one of them should face manslaughter charges.

As it is, they should all lose their jobs and face prosecution.

So the TSA agents will grope your junk in the name of security but can't be arsed to actually look into the luggage for bombs? I'd love to be able to just choose parts of my job that I don't want to do.

How about a cop that doesn't feel like chasing down a murderer? Or a fireman who's not up to putting out the fires? What about a doctor who rubber stamps his patients instead of actually checking them out?

These people do not deserve their jobs, they do not deserve unemployment, they deserve to pay for their negligence and utter dereliction of duty.

Rule is #336 Do Your Damned Job, Especially When Your Job Entails Security from Terroristic Actions

#329 Do NOT Party On

Not the Father of the Year

Parents' day at the beach involved a lot of beer: "James Arthur Lee, 54, and his wife, Wendy Maureen Lee, 47, went on a bender Jan. 22 after bringing their children, ages 2 through 8, to the beach at Half Moon Bay, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe."

The article goes on to say that James Arthur Lee was driving with a whopping .25% BAC, more than three times the legal limit which means he was completely tossed. His wife blew a .24%. These two idiots stopped twice on the way home to drink more beer too while their four kids sat in the back and were deeply ashamed and probably scared of the spectacle of their drunk parents.

Now I'm not going to sit here and say that your life is over when you have kids. It is actually just beginning in many ways but your hard partying, drunk driving and acting like a teenaged moron should be behind you by the time you get to 50 at the very least. I feel bad for these kids who have had to be removed from their parent's "care" while each of them serves jail time for their ridiculous stupidity.

There comes a time when you sack up, sober up and realize that there are more important things in your life than getting drunk, like keeping your kids safe and trying to drive on the roads when you're literally shitfaced.

Or, if you must get fall down stupid ass drunk then have the forethought to not do it front of your kids and, absolutely for damned sure, don't get behind the wheel. This story could have easily ended with all six of them dead, I wonder if that reality has settled in on James Arther Lee yet. He's lucky he didn't kill his entire family and merely got arrested.

Rule #329 is Do NOT Party On

Rule #60 FEED Your Baby

Vegan parents guilty in infant murder - 6 wk old starved to death fed diet of soy milk & apple juice.

Of all the stupid, avoidable, criminally unbelievably insane things to do, starving your baby is not one I'd think was possible. Being a parent, I wanted to do absolutely anything for my babies. If I'd had to pick up a truck, I would tried until my body failed.

How any parent could willfully ignore the signs, how any human being could ignore what their own eyes were telling them, is just beyond me. I feel terrible for these two parents but I feel a thousand times worse for their son who will never grow up.

Rule #60 is Feed Your Baby. Or, Take Your Baby To A Doctor To Make Sure He's Okay!