Accidental Discharge at Apple Butter Festival

[Goosepond Monster]

Yah, how are you guys reading it? i can't access it either.... Sadface.

It requires a username and password to access most of the articles.

 

[96firephoenix]

wait... we have an applebutter festival in IN?!?!? how am I just now knowing about this?

and yea. -1 to the BHT for sucking at life.

 

[Bendrx]

Indy needs a Applebutter Covered Bacon Festival! With those sugar roll things usually around with applebutter.

 

[Cru]

Indy needs a Applebutter Covered Bacon Festival! With those sugar roll things usually around with applebutter.

Yeah, we can call it the Heart Attack Diabetes Surprise Festival.

 

[christman]

Does teh user name and password require a monthly subscription?

 

[littletommy]

I didn't read the stupid article, just more hippy wacko BS. I just turned on the oven though, I'm fixing some biscuits so's I can have some Apple butter.

 

[Expat]

Unfortunately, amongst the non-gun owning public this gives all of us a black eye. This is the kind of thing that causes them to be for, carry restrictions, mandatory training, etc.

 

[Turn Key]

What the hell kind of news outlet is this place??

-1 Herald Times.....​

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it ^^them^^ that first published the list of all of the LTCH holders in the counties they cover?

TK

 

[Mr.JAG]

Sadly, that Apple Butter Festival is held in my original home town (Spencer). Which, is inhabited by people who know their firearms (for the most part). I'm sure the Spencer paper wouldn't have made so many mistakes in it's article.

The Herald Times though, comes out of Bloomington. This is a town filled with anti-gun hippies (trust me, I went to college there!) It doesn't surprise me at all to see so much mis-information about firearms or that incident in that article.

 

[LEaSH]

I'm just picturing a bubba with apple butter all over his hands and a cheap revolver leaping out like a greased pig.

 

[Redskinsfan]

The truth is probably the guy was showing his gun off and pulled the trigger then made up the story about dropping it.

Right on! What revolver discharges from a fall? Not one that has been made within the past 100 years. A double action revolver with a transfer bar, as all them have, could be tossed from the Empire State building and land on its hammer and not dicharge.

This, above, is 100% on.

Terry

 

[patton487]

Here's the story from the Spencer Evening World.

No Injuries In Handgun Accident During Parade


Staff Report

Spencer Town Marshal Richard Foutch noted early this week that at least one miracle happened during the annual Spencer Lions Club Apple Butter Festival – a bullet went straight up into the air and not into a large crowd.

According to Spencer Police Department, a male subject dropped a firearm from his pocket and the gun discharged during Saturday's parade.

After further investigation it was learned that the subject had been carrying a small caliber handgun in his pocket when the gun fell out of his pocket and discharged. The subject did have a valid carry permit and no persons were injured in the incident.


That was the entire story. And they even called it a "carry permit", not a conceal carry permit. lol.
I would have just put a link, but unless your a subscriber you can only access the front page online.

 

[Goosepond Monster]

Does teh user name and password require a monthly subscription?

Yes or I believe you can access online if you have the paper delivered to your home.

 

[mospeada]

SPENCER — No one was injured when a man accidentally dropped his .38-caliber handgun, causing it to discharge, during the Apple Butter Festival Parade in downtown Spencer over the weekend.

While police were tending to their booth at the festival, someone came and told them a man had dropped his gun, causing it to fire in the area of Main and Franklin streets during Saturday afternoon’s crowded parade, Spencer Town Marshal Richard Foutch said.

Police found the man, described only as in his late 40s to early 50s, who said the weapon came loose from its holster and dropped from his pocket, Foutch said. The man had a valid permit to carry the gun.

Police and ambulance personnel searched the area for possible injured people and did not find any, Foutch said. “We got lucky no one was injured,” he said.

Foutch could not estimate how many people were standing in the immediate area of the dropped weapon. “I don’t think anyone really knew exactly what happened,” he said. Police did not recover the bullet casing.

As much as I try, my guns just sit in their damned holsters and are all boring. No drops, no negligent discharges, nothing. I'd like to find this guy to find out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[451_Detonics]

Brookfield -

Today a story of abuse and torture so terrible that the victim sought to end his life rather than suffer through another day of this depraved man's torture. A small handgun (model being with held to protect it's innocence) managed to extract itself from the tight confines of it's holster prison, climb unaided up the fabric of it's pocket dungeon then leap to it's possible deep to the pavement below. A miracle escape resulting only in a small AD the revolver was quoted as saying...

"It was a living hell in there...cabbage and beans everyday, the fumes were starting to corrode my finish. The only time I saw the light of day was when Barney Fife there (referring to his owner) would take me out to show me off. He was always stroking my trigger when showing me off...it was degrading."

The owner declined to comment...