Young & Stupid

[Hoosier8]

First off, I know everyone’s gonna say don’t listen to anyone on here and get a lawyer to double check, but wanted to get a few opinions. So I was either 17 or 18, which was 28 years ago, and I shot myself in the wrist. I was scared to death, and since I was able to move everything with no restrictions. I self treated the gunshot wound. From my research, I was extremely lucky that it did not get infected. Apparently I did a pretty good job. Now, 28 years later, I am starting to have a lot of pain in my wrist. If I go to the doctor, I'm obviously going to have to tell them what happened. Is there any repercussions I could be facing? I don’t know if that’s something the Dr. will still report. Don’t want a police report opened up and a possibility of my stuff being confiscated.

Had a friend that went the doctor. They did an X-ray. Doc asked, “did you know you have bullets in you”? “Yes, got shot in a bar years ago”. That was about the extent of it.

 

[Ark]

Me dumping my .38s because they apparently don't even tickle

 

[Nugget]

Good thing it wasn't a 9mm. He could have blown his lungs out of his wrist.

I've heard you're supposed to shoot yourself with small caliber bullets to start with, then work your way up to larger rounds. Helps build up immunity to being shot, like a vaccine.

 

[JTKelly]

Turn yourself in.

And let the county pick up the medical.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

You're lucky it wasn't a .45. It would have blown you in half and probably killed your neighbor's dog, too.

10mm and he would be dust floating in space, we'd have never heard about it.

 

[Leadeye]

Personally, I feel that sign is racist toward Silhouette-Americans.

I thought it meant no Boris Badnov.

 

[patience0830]

I thought it meant no Boris Badinof.


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" Boris! We must get moose and skvirrel!"

 

[blain]

With your checkered past, you shouldn't run for Governor or President.
But any other political office, you'll be fine.

 

[92FSTech]

Go to the doctor. It'll be fine. Accidentally shooting yourself is not a crime.

I took a piece of jacket to the top of the head off of a steel plate last year. We were about 15 yards away, well beyond the marked minimum distance, but they'd just replaced the brackets on the plate rack so the plates were sitting at an almost perfect 90 degrees instead of having the normal forward lean. The next thing you know there's a stinging sensation on top of my head and blood running down my face. My buddy cleaned it up with stuff out of the med kit in my car, it stopped bleeding, and we went back to shooting (not at that steel!).

A month later and it still wasn't healed completely. Nothing horrible, but it was still kinda tender. I put my hand up there one night and thought I felt something sharp. I had my wife grab a flashlight and a pair of pliers and she pulled a fragment of copper bullet jacket out of my head. I had to put up with her calling me an idiot (again), but she must have got it all because it healed up fine after that.

Lessons learned:

1. Don't shoot the plate rack with jacketed ammo.
2. Always wear a hat (normally I do. That day I didn't.)
3. Always wear eye pro (I always do, and was)
4. Find a different, more observant buddy next time I need patched up/amateur surgery performed
5. My wife is a bad*** but she clearly cares more about the kids than me because she passed out in the exam room when the Dr. set my daughter's broken arm, but was perfectly ok with pulling chunks of metal out of my head!

 

[Kdf101]

Make a necklace out of the piece of copper. decades ago, when I got shot, they would not give me the recovered bullet. Bummed me out.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Make a necklace out of the piece of copper. decades ago, when I got shot, they would not give me the recovered bullet. Bummed me out.

Very early in my detective career I had a jeweler who was shot in a robbery ask for the recovered bullet. He obviously survived and wanted to make it into jewelry. Once it was no longer required evidence, I released it to him. .44 hardcast, IIRC.

 

[Methane Herder]

I am not a professional carpenter so there was no workers compensation claim filed. I was inebriated doing some work on my house. I kinda forgot to read the whole instruction manual.
Sorry!
The above is a plausible explanation that I could testify to happening at least once.
Could does not imply "willing ".
MH

 

[Robert Richardson]

Ah, really dumb question.

 

[Sigblitz]

Don’t listen to anyone on here and get a lawyer. There, I said it.

 

[DadSmith]

Not going to be an issue. The real take away here is that this proves that 38 special is a terrible defensive round.

If it was a wadcutter it would have been a lot worse.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Some of you guys would climb a tree to tell a lie when you could stay on the ground and tell the truth.

 

[2tonic]

Before you go to the doctor, we'd like to get a little more information, for our files.

 

[wbd]

38 Special

Get a rope..

 

[Dean C.]

You will be fine, even if the doctors reported a three decade old injury what is the police going to do arrest you for shooting your self?




Heck Tex recorded it and went to the hospital just fine too

 

[04FXSTS]

"Hey Doc, I am having trouble with an old bullet wound from 28 years ago." Do you really think that doctor is going to research whether or not it was reported 28 years ago? Jim.