Mouse trap
Hunting pesky rodents can be more dangerous than most people would think.
If you choose the wrong tool for the job and couple that with bad decisions and poor judgement; it can end in a tragedy.
As was the case with a 52-year old dentist from Holland who tried to get rid of some mice in his vacation home in Jumilhac-le-Grandin, in the French Dordogne (July 26, 2010).
Aggravated by the noisy mice that inhabited his French home, he decided to take matters into his own hands and hunt ‘them pesky mice’ down.
However; instead of using the usual tools for such a task – traps, poison, a broom or maybe even a cat – he decided to use a rifle. Wrong decision number one.
Instead of trying to shoot the mice (which sounds logical when you grab a gun), he decided to try and club them to dead by holding the barrel of the gun and trying to hit them with the butt of the rifle: something you would more expect to see in a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
Wrong decision number two.
The third bad decision he made turned out to be his last and a fatal one: not checking if the rifle was loaded.
When the dentist swung the gun at one of the mice, it promptly went off hitting him in the abdomen and wounding him fatally.
A tragic event.
But also a perfect example of stupidity that deserves a Darwin Award.
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