Shooting victim doesn’t feel getting shot due to alcoholism; he wouldn’t have gotten shot were it not for same.
Story from “This is True” by Randy Cassingham, with his “tagline:”
“UNDEAD II: Tracy Durham, 48, had a party at his place in Peoria, Ill. ‘I was drunk,’ he says. He won’t say who was over for the party, but he remembers telling a friend his girlfriend was ugly. As Durham took another swig from his bottle, he remembers hearing a ‘pop’, but he went back to his party, then slept off his drinks. The next day a neighbor noticed he was limping, and came over to ask why. ‘It looks like you’ve been shot,’ the neighbor observed. Durham was, through his thigh, and hadn’t even noticed. ‘If it were a big, gaping hole, like from a .45, you’d probably take note of that sooner,’ said Peoria police Lt. Vince Wieland, who guessed the wound was caused by a .22 caliber. ‘Depending on how much [alcohol they’ve consumed], it’s not unusual for them to not notice until the next day.’ (Peoria Journal Star) …Though the ones shot with a .45 tend to wake up dead the next morning.”
My quip is this story suggests one advantage to alcoholism: you don’t feel pain. Of course, without the alcoholism you probably wouldn’t tell a friend his girlfriend is ugly. So, you’d never have the opportunity to feel the pain. Or to hang out with people who might be capable of shooting someone over an insult.
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(Story and tagline from “This is True,” copyright 2010 by Randy Cassingham, used with permission.)