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Why did they take a pizza into TB?

Probably because they bought it at Domino's delivery nearby then needed a place to eat it.

It was real serious for about 3 seconds.

My eyes can follow handgun bullets when they go downrange and the can's pull tab looked a lot like a bullet when it crossed my line of sight. This combined with the loud bang and the impact with my shoulder was enought to trigger my response.

If you live near there you know how bad that area looks.

We'll be at the DAPS IDPA Match Wed at Elm Fork if you want to hear her tell it. She will be the pretty one with the Pink baseball hat on.

My wife has observed my antics over the years and regaled her friends and our families with them.

Her fav story is the "Naked Skunk" tale and it has entertained many a person. ( Yes, it involved a gun .. and not much else..)

I called her right after the can exploded and she was hysterical when I was done.

Candid Camera is not something you want to do around an armed person, though.

The following took place beween 1:31 and 1:32 PM.

Just South of Parker on Plano Road is a Taco Bueno in a mostly abandoned strip mall. I stopped there for lunch yesterday and ate five tacos and 1 bean burrito in dining area.

While I was there three kids with baggy shorts, long t-shirts, and crooked caps carried a pizza into the store and ate in the dining room. I looked them over but they were in condition white and ignored everyone else.

I finished eating and proceeded outside with my large iced tea and my book to the S side of the parking lot and entered my truck.

Once in the truck I looked around then went back to reading my book. I had eaten a lot and my eyes were kind of droopy.

A few pages later something very fast shot from my right in my line of sight and slammed into my shoulder exactly where I'd been hit by a simunition last Friday. At the same time a loud pop and a spray of debris filled my truck cab.

I looked to my right and grabbed my left shoulder. To my right the iced tea and a soda can were shredded. My left shoulder was warm and wet under my hand.

I opened my door with my right hand, shoved it open with my left foot, and rolled out of my truck, landing in a crouch on my feet. I looked to my right along the truck and saw a little mexican girl dragging a trash bag to the dumpster. I looked under the door and under my truck and did not see any feet.

I was starting to warm up - my heart was beating hard and I was breathing very hard. The air tasted like copper. I was entering fight mode.

At this point I thought about my 30-30 and my XD in my truck and realized with my shoulder hurt, I should go for the XD. And then run away from the unseen threat.

But I needed to check my shoulder first.

I mentally prepared myself and I lifted my right hand and looked.

My right hand came away sticky and wet with a brown syrupy goo that smelled like Cherry Coke.

There was no hole!

I could move my left arm!

Out of the corner of my eye I could see the little mexican girl with her trash just staring at me, her mouth and eyes open in shock.

I stood up and looked in my truck. The Cherry Coke can which had been unopened, but sitting in the sun for a few days, had exploded, sending the pull tab ( and some warm coke ) into me at high speed.

I got into my truck and left the scene.

Never Again will I leave an unopened can of pop in my truck!!