Negligent discharge in Ferguson
A woman, 26-year-old Becca Campbell, died from a negligent discharge in Ferguson, while waving her boyfriend’s brand new gun around inside their car declaring that she was ready for unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. CNN calls it an accidental discharge, but clearly it was negligent;
The boyfriend, who wasn’t identified, told police that the couple had bought a gun because of fears of unrest related to the pending grand jury decision on the shooting of Michael Brown, the sources said.
He told investigators that as they drove late Friday night, the victim waved a gun, jokingly saying the couple were ready for Ferguson, the sources said.
He ducked to get out of the way of the gun and accidentally rear-ended another car. He said the accident caused the gun to go off and she was struck by a bullet in the head, the sources said.
The victim was rushed to a hospital but died.
The automobile accident didn’t “cause the gun to go off”, the victim had her finger on the trigger when she wasn’t intending to fire the weapon for it’s intended use.
I swear, other people’s children.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
The newest entry in the Darwin awards.
She definitely qualifies for the Darin Award. I think I’ll email the guys who do them every year and submit her.
finger on the trigger for no reason….Reminds me of the Iraqi Police we trained…..they were always doing that.
So true. We had an entire Afghan battalion go into full death blossom mode over one Soldier who tripped, sprained his ankle, then fired off a magazine to cover his fall. After they expended a few thousand rounds they blamed us for instigating it. Those were some crazy times.
@ SFC HOLLAND, Et Alii: I sort of had a similar experience to yours in the old Republic of Viet Nam. In early (January?) 1970, I was the new guy in the Phu Lam Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade, in Saigon. Late one night, while most of us were relaxing in our two story concrete barracks, we suddenly heard a whole lot of shooting just outside our back door. The lights were extinguished, and I went to my wall locker to don my web gear, gas mask, flak vest, steel pot, and loaded a magazine into my M-16, and as I approached the rear door, chambered a round. I wondered why I was the ONLY guy doing that? Outside, I went to my assigned sandbagged bunker, where I found myself completely alone, and wondered why? Staring out at the rice paddy and perimeter fence, I couldn’t see anything moving, which frightened me even more, for my imagination had hordes of invisible superhuman Viet Cong approaching me from the rear to slit my throat! In the bunker was a loaded, tripod mounted Browning M-2 .50 calibre machine gun, but as is typical of Signal Corps personnel, I’d never been trained on that weapon and had no idea how to load or fire it. Boy, was I terrified! I rang up the TA-12 field telephone and heard other soldiers heatedly arguing. No one paid any attention to my repeated desperate pleas for assistance and/or information over the land line. Eventually, I was told a tower guard had gotten spooked and fired his weapon at shadows in the rice paddy. So, I returned to my barracks, where all the guys were mad at me, which had me mystified. They said I should have gone out a different door, for if the Viet Cong were out there, they would have fired into the barracks through that open door. Still, in retrospect, I think I did the right thing, and in fact, did what the other guys SHOULD have been doing. Being an inexperienced new guy, I was glad to know that, under fire, I… Read more »
As one Signal guy to another, BRAVO JRM! Great post.
Good riddance.
I guess someone never told her to keep her booger hook off the bang switch.
Proof that Teh Stoopid®™ can be lethal!!
The fact that she is one of the protestors puts a whole new meaning to the phrase, “she was ready for the unrest in Ferguson”.
http://weaselzippers.us/206098-ferguson-protester-killed-with-her-own-gun/
She was not a protestor. She was “afraid” of riots.
So, you just happen to know her personally? Or what??
Do, tell. Maybe she just didn’t know about the requirement to check in with you to properly register as a protestor.
(No, I have no idea why she was in the neighborhood she was in, or what motivated her serious case of the stupid.)
Becca was a protester. There are pics of her with the protesters and arguing with the cops.
Commissar, you’re still an ignoramus. How about this: She probably would have gone on her merry way had Obama and friends not stirred the pot with Michael Brown’s death, pretty much inciting unrest and dividing the people there further without ever getting to the actual truth.
Let’s count the ways that O turned self-defense into racist bullshit with his cohorts Al, Jesse, and Holder, shall we?
Trayvon Martin, Henry Gates, Black Panthers…what else…because there are many more.
Anyone who owns a weapon,should never pick up a loaded gun and wave it around unless they plan on using it. Period. They should also never pick up a weapon without having had the proper safety classes. Oops. She appears to have failed both of those things and created a tragedy for everyone involved.
Posting without further comment:
http://www.breaking911.com/woman-accidentally-kills-herself-with-gun-she-bought-for-ferguson-unrest/
11B3V beat me to the punch.
Except he was wrong and so was his source.
Actually, my conclusion could be wrong. I can’t find a picture of her to tell if the one in the image from the tweet is her.
“Unverified internet source” is precisely why I presented “with no further comment.”
Not sure if I have enough interest in the topic to spend the time cross-checking either.
Protestor or not, she has removed herself from the gene pool, and reinforced good old Col. Cooper’s laws of firearms safety.
That is all…
I don’t revel in the death of anyone but the local news here is saying she was a known protester who had previous contacts with LEO.
That seems to be your problem, Lars. You like to tell people that they’re wrong, but you don’t have any proof to back up your charge. But, that’s cool, as long as you feel good about yourself, you can be as wrong as you want to be. Isn’t that the CA motto?
Here you go, Lars. Use this link and page down a tad. She’s the portly one arguing with a police officer, according a reporter with the Post-Dispatch, who took the pic of her in August.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/24/st-louis-woman-accidentally-kills-gun-bought-ferguson-unrest.html
Booger hook, bang switch, lack of common sense. Mix well and stand back. Preferably behind a ballistic shield.
Yep.
This does not pass the smell test. The area where the death took place is near the Mississippi River. Ferguson is quite a way NW of there, just to the North and East of the airport, which is a good distance from downtown. Were these people planning to commute to feel “unsafe”?
Since I haven’t seen these questions asked; I will.
Why do the protesters in Ferguson need to be armed?
Did they follow the 7-day waiting period when purchasing the firearm?
KS and MO don’t have a 7 day waiting period. I walk right out with the gun every time. Takes less than 10 minutes.
11B3V and Geet….
“and nothing of value was lost…”
Sigh….
I could ask all sorts of questions here, like why was she waving the gun around, why was it not in the glove box, etc., but the real question is the following one.
We’ll never know just how abominably stupid she really was, will we?
Oh, well, at least she can’t reproduce now. Sad…. sort of.
yeah pretty much
Ex-PH2, we do know just how abominably stupid she was. She shot herself in the head while playing with a loaded firearm. It doesn’t get much dumber than that. I think it’s safe to say she was no rocket surgeon.
Looks like the garbage took itself out.
People who can’t keep their booger hook off the bang switch aren’t smart enough to be armed. And evidently they aren’t smart enough to live, either.
Yeah, well.
That’s all I got on this.
Splat. Out.
too soon?
I dunno. Is there a sign out front that says “Dead Retard Storage*?”
*Applied to the dead retard being discussed, as opposed to the line from the movie.
Well at least the very, shallow end of the gene pool is a bit cleaner today. There’s that.
The lady doth protest too much.
A retro spew alert for the comment above. How could I be the first one to post that?
My post has been up over 26 hours with no comments. Am I losing my mojo?
You had mojo? …….It had to be done.
Maybe we need to send you back in time to stop Fat Bastard from stealing your Mojo while you were frozen?
Playing with a loaded gun . . . in a moving vehicle. Sheesh.
The product of stupidity and carelessness with firearms is sometimes like a dose of chlorine in the gene pool!
[…] If you are all giddy waiting for the race wars to kick off in Missouri, it is best not to brandish and wave around your piece like a lunatic. […]
Do y’all remember Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, composer of the hit song, “BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERET”?
After leaving the Army, he was in Central America doing mercenary work.
One night, he was drunk and in a taxicab with his girlfriend and the cab driver showing off his pistol, which discharged, leaving Sergeant Sadler in a coma for weeks, eventually dying in the Alvin York VA Hospital in Tennessee.
So, it ain’t just untrained amateurs that do stupid stuff.
I believe a Navy SEAL accidentally shot himself in the head a few years ago showing off in front of his girlfriend.
Don’t be former MLB player Jose Canseco…blew off a digit cleaning his gun w/ a loaded chamber.
Terry Kath of Chicago did the same thing, shot himself while being careless with a weapon. The band was never the same afterward.
I came home from Iraq and the guy who was watching my place told me before I walked thru the door, “look, I’m sorry but I was cleaning my gun and it went off and put a bullet into your wall.”
At first I thought he was joking. When I got home, I walked thru the door and immediately saw the hole about 3 inches from my TV. Luckily, no one was hurt, but that kind of freaked me out.
By the way, OFF TOPIC, here is the URL for the SAINT LOUIS COUNTY POLICE SCANNER:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/st-louis-county-police-scanner
MO State Highway Patrol scanner stream:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/17925
The Grand Jury no-billed Ofc. Wilson.
I must have a magic carpet or something. I spent several hours flitting from Ferguson to St. Louis, to New York City/ to Chicago, and back to St. Louis then back to Ferguson in a helicopter, shooting loads of pictures along the way. Sent some to Jonn.
Oh, yeah, I was also at the White House when bodaprez made his remarks and at Rainbow PUSH when Jess made hisn, too.
Looks like another 150-200 accidental discharges mixed in with a dozen accidental fires.
Yep, that’ll solve your problems assholes.
I was going to say the same thing, unfortunately no further Darwin awards seem to be getting awarded.
Someone please explain to me why, when most of the protests were peaceful, there just had to be a bunch of thugs who took out their wrath on Ferguson by setting cars on fire and looting businesses, burning them to the ground, and putting people out of jobs?
Some snippy guy on a local TV station said it was democracy at work. Well, no. Democracy isn’t looting and destroying property. It’s anarchy and nothing else.
So what was the justification for it? There was none.
This is the same reason why, in Iraq and Afghanistan, people watch someone put an IED in the road and then close their windows and let “our” convoy get hit.
Its an “Inshya Allah” kind of thing.
I will say though that one mission I went out on, as soon as I walked to the street, someone stepped out to tell me there was an IED nearby. We ended up giving him a reward for that, but it wasn’t so often we’d get stopped and warned.
It only takes ONE Person, in even 1000 people, to make a Demonstration turn into a Riot. Most of those people will get incited to Riot too. Later, in jail, they’ll wonder what happened and why they started rioting vs just demonstrating.
In a related story:
During a post crime scene search of the vehicle, under a dirty blanket, several layers of unread newspapers and a rusty tool box full of Hip Hop and Gansta Rap cd’s, a copy of “The Origin of Species” was found.
Note:
Clearly, at least one other person held the title to this vehicle.
That was funny MCPO!
Thanks … Here to serve!
Ok … Good night!
LMFAO!
Stupid assholes are burning a police car in furguson
Yeah but when the cameras are turned off you can bet that the Rev Sharpton will still be there to help rebuild all the businesses that were owned by blacks that blacks torched. Do I need to add a “/Sarc”
Well of course its sarcasm.
He can’t afford to help businesses rebuild, he has almost 10 million in “old taxes” to pay back to the USA.
Its no wonder he’s working for MSNBC, he has to make the money somehow.
This is what happens when you buy a gun that is smarter than you are.