Woman shoots self mistaking pistol for cigarette lighter

The Daily Comet (Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana) ^ | Dec 9, 2006

[llevrok]

A woman staying at a northeast Georgia motel this week shot herself while trying to light a cigarette with a pistol she mistook for a cigarette lighter, police said.

Police said Olivia Hutcherson, 21, of Anderson, S.C., had been arrested for fighting at a Waffle House shortly before she shot herself in the hand with a .22-caliber pistol she had tried to use to light a cigarette.

Lavonia Police Chief Randy Shirley said Hutcherson was staying with two other people at a Best Western motel at about 6 a.m. on Sunday.

When she reached onto a nightstand for what she thought was a lighter, she instead grabbed a pistol owned by Bobby Brown, 56, of Royston, Shirley said.

About 90 minutes earlier, Hutcherson had slapped a man in the face three times after she said he touched her inappropriately, according to police reports.

Five witnesses told police they never saw the man touch her.

"She stated that someone had grabbed her from behind and she turned and struck the first person she saw," an officer wrote in the report.

[llevrok]

Another reason not to smoke.!!

[GSlob]

Well, 22LR pipsqueak pistol is not a nightstand thing, but a toy. She got a good lesson in the merits of various calibers.

[jdm]

You probably could light a cigarette with a gun, but it would be tricky.

[yankeedame]

Woman shoots self mistaking pistol for cigarette lighter

Wasn't this in the original Pink Panther, where Clouseau's boss mistakes a gun for a trick cigarette lighters and ***BANG***

[GSlob]

"Wasn't this in the original Pink Panther... "
Don't know, to tell the truth, and I plead invincible and deliberate ignorance - I do not have a TV [on purpose] and thus do not watch [and have never watched] whatever you denoted as "Pink Panther". I surmise it might be something on TV, possibly a cartoon, from how others occasionally refer to it.

[Emmett McCarthy]

It's hard unless you have something at least .40 caliber. I thought I had dated some dumb broads, but this one...

[JRios1968]

One more way smoking can kill you...

[NonValueAdded]

had been arrested for fighting at a Waffle House shortly before she shot herself in the hand

Holy patdowns, Batman, how can that be?

[JennysCool]

she instead grabbed a pistol owned by Bobby Brown

Paging Whitney's divorce attorney!

[Enosh]

Yes, but did it succeed in lighting the smoke?

[Ken H]

LOL. Chief Inspector Dreyfuss: "Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and help me find my nose!"

[Continental Soldier]

Darwin strikes again.

[GSlob]

Impossible, unless you affix to the cigarette a very flame-sensitive tip, or maybe soak it in the engine staring fluid [pentane/ether]: the muzzle flash has WAY too short a duration.

[Still Thinking]

"Help me find my nose!" -- Herbert Lom

[SamAdams76]

Fighting at a Waffle House!

This is bound to come up on a future COPS episode.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No, they are referring to the movie. It also was released in book form. I assume you do read.

[GSlob]

"I assume you do read."
Well, I do read [or how would I be able to reply?- actually I'm thinking of having others reading it aloud to me]. But as a measure of mental prophylactics, I do not go to movies and otherwise boycott the so-called pop culture in all its forms, shapes and manifestations. Thus, there might well have been such a book and/or the movie, but you could bet dollars to donuts that I have not, and never would, touch, watch, or read such stuff.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

or how would I be able to reply?

There is voice recognition software that allows people to speak and the software types their words for them. If also it capable of reading printed words. Thus being able to read would not be a prerequisite to your being able to reply.

I do not go to movies and otherwise boycott the so-called pop culture in all its forms, shapes and manifestations.

So you eschew all forms of fiction, do not listen to music, do not read how to books or anything else. That is interesting. And rather odd.

[ErnBatavia]

Fighting at a Waffle House! This is bound to come up on a future COPS episode.

This story is just so "southern" it's beyond words....have forwarded to my 'Bama and Georgia relatives.

[dirtbiker]

It was a movie, starring the late Peter Sellers, released back in the '70s....