Florida man shoots himself while showing off gun at bar

[marmar]

A man accidentally shot himself while showing off his gun at a bar in Florida, local reports say.

According to the Pensacola News Journal, the incident happened on Thursday night at O’Riley’s Uptown Tavern in Pensacola. Police told WEAR-TV the self-shooter is 28-year-old Carlos Feituuaki Tuifua, who survived and is recovering.

Surveillance video viewed by the Journal showed how the accident unfolded. At 11pm, Mr Tuifua was sitting at the bar talking to a man and a woman. About a minute later, he pulled out a handgun and showed it to them for a few seconds.

Then, the Journal reported, Mr Tuifua made a sudden gesture “as if he were putting the gun into an invisible holster” below his shoulder, but instead shot himself in the torso. .............(more)

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-shoots-himself-while-142143606.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Dimwit fancies himself a showman

[skylucy]

2. Booze and guns. What could go wrong?

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Checked to see if this was Borowitz / Onion 1st.

Nope.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

16. Why?

Florida man accidentally shots himself is the most believable headline I'll see today.

[ret5hd]

4. Why is this in "Weird News"?

Just sayin’.

[Turbineguy]

5. It goes well with Offenbach...

[Deuxcents]

6. The video is hilarious

The moron at the bar should never be allowed near firearms..ever.

[Hoyt]

7. Another one of those gun cases that gunners tell us don't happen to "responsible" gunowners.

[Binkie The Clown]

8. But if he'd been armed he could have protected himself from himself, or something like that...

[pamdb]

9. Idiot

Well at least he didn’t shoot anyone else. I think Florida has won the title of ‘Stupidest State.

Much like Texas, you couldn’t pay me to move there.

[2naSalit]

10. I'm thinking that we might need...

A category called "Florida man". No?

[marble falls]

11. He was standing his ground against himself.

[twodogsbarking]

13. Get me off my lawn.

[marble falls]

15. "And I'm keeping my ball until my father comes over here and talks to me, now beat it!"

[twodogsbarking]

12. I love Florida Man. He is in the news daily.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. Damned shame

he isn't now a Darwin Award contestant.