Saint Joe’s most eligible bachelor, this month, is a patient I saw the other day. He “accidentally” shot himself in the leg with his 9 mm pistol. He was “cleaning” it when it discharged. The bullet trajectory entered the thigh from the medial aspect and exited the thigh on the lateral posterior aspect. In other words it was a horizontal trajectory.
One thing I have come to view as a red flag for lying is the statement, “I was cleaning it and didn’t know it was loaded when it went off.” To me that translates into a self inflicted GSW or one that was inflicted by someone else, probably because the victim was doing something he shouldn’t be doing.
But the key to this whole thing is the meth pipe that fell out of his pants when he sat down on the bed.
Most tweakers pick at their skin, picking at bugs or worms that they are hallucinating are on or under their skin.
I figure he decided to just shoot them and when he realized what he had done, he tried to come up with a more plausible explanation.
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.