I agree the DEA guy was not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but that may not have had anything to do with his ability to walk around and act like nothing happened - at first.Excaliber wrote:Considering the mental acuity involved in firing the round into his leg in the first place, it may simply be that the 64K processor between his left ear and his right was having trouble chugging through an incoming 3 gigabytes of "OUCH".WildBill wrote:That is being cool.bigred90gt wrote:He just carries on so calm and collected like nothing happened, immediately after putting a .40 S&W round into his leg.
I was the initial first responder to an acquaintance (and cop) who inadvertently shot himself through the thigh with a .40 Gold Dot. He initially thought he had just booboo'd into the floor, but when he looked to see how much damage to the floor he caused, he saw the bullet laying there, fully expanded. That was his first indication he had shot himself. Subsequently he found two holes in his thigh, but not much blood and it didn't hurt. He said he actually thought about not telling anyone and just trying to "walk it off." (Probably cruel, but me and the other first responder laughed at him at this point). It wasn't until a few minutes later that the pain and swelling started, and he realized he had to call 911.
He was miserable for awhile, but he recovered just fine.