The Rat Bolted And The Gun Went Off
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 9 months ago
News from the great Northeast:
First came the rat — and then, the rat-a-tat-tat.
A Harlem postal cop, startled early Thursday by a rambling rodent outside the W. 125th St. post office, accidentally fired his gun while investigating a building alarm, sources said.
Both the rat and U.S. Postal Service Inspector Neville Harper escaped injury in the 12:35 a.m. shooting that came after the rodent bolted suddenly from a pile of garbage, the sources said.
Harper was doing a perimeter search of the building with his service revolver drawn when the rat appeared and the gun went off, sources said.
I’ve heard of those guns that just “go off” with no one pulling the trigger, mostly from cops under investigation when their gun “goes off.” But in this case, this particular gun “went off” when the rat bolted. That must be some sensitive trigger (trigger pressure of, oh, I don’t know, a nano-Pascal?). Those changes in air pressure when things move, you know.
And remember kids. Only the cops can be trusted with guns.
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