Man fatally shoots wife while installing satellite TV system

Kansas City Star ^ | March 25, 2008

[osagebowman]

SEDALIA, Mo. | Officials are trying to determine whether to file charges against a man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite television system in their home.

Patsy D. Long, 34, of Deepwater, was pronounced dead early Saturday evening after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.

The woman, who was outside the house, was hit by the second of two shots fired by Ronald Long, the Henry County Sheriff’s Department said.

[osagebowman]

Posted by LSAggie on hubby's account

[Domandred]

Before clicking to read the whole article I’m quite certain that somewhere there was beer.

[Rudder]

I’ve seen this before. It’s called BS (husband is lying).

[thackney]

ping

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.

I guess they don't sell drills in Sedalia MO???

Don't know if he should be charged, but would not hesitate to recommend him for the "moron of the year award."

[Domandred]

Okay no beer mentioned, but apparently a .22 round can in fact penetrate a wall and still remain lethal.

[AmericaUnited]

“Hold my beer and watch me install this here sat dish...”

[highimpact]

First rule of gun safety: Always consider any gun to be loaded and ready to fire.
Second rule of gun safety: Always know what is in front of and behind your intended target.

[norwaypinesavage]

If she was outside, who did he get to hold his beer?

[edcoil]

I understand home depot offers hand drills for this type of work now.

[trumandogz]

Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.

I don't think the shooter will have satellite TV in the State Penitentiary.

[KoRn]

I hate it when this happens.

[wagglebee]

How in the world can a .22 caliber round go through the EXTERIOR wall of a house and still have enough mass and velocity to kill someone?

[aomagrat]

Stupid.

[vpintheak]

The man is either the dumbest idiot in the world, or he is a murderer. I’m going with murder on this one.

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

This could be a great “Darwin” award if only the bullet had ricocheted and killed the guy stupid enough to use a pistol instead of a drill.....can we say “Red Neck”....!!!!

[Bobalu]

Whoa! Dumbass alert!
I'm speechless.

[Straight Vermonter]

Gun owners should push for morons like this to be charged. They make all of us look like yahoos and give ammunition to those who seek to ban guns.

[aomagrat]

How in the world can a .22 caliber round go through the EXTERIOR wall of a house and still have enough mass and velocity to kill someone?

Must have been a trailer home.

[goldstategop]

The quick and dirty way to install that satellite dish system.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Young Werther]

What would bob Villa say about, "The Right tool for the Right Job!"

There's gotta be a law aginst studpidity!

[Abathar]

It’s Missouri, so we might be talking about a trailer wall here...

[Mark was here]

Did he get his TV working?

[wagglebee]

If a .22 can puncture it, a drill certainly can.

[ladtx]

Some people are just stoopid. Everyone knows you don’t use a .22 to install a satellite dish. Ya gotta use a .38 minimum but a .357 mag works better.

[PROCON]

Going out on a limb here...Democratic voter?

[wagglebee]

In which case I’m a little surprised it didn’t ricochet and hit him.

[PeterFinn]

A .22 can penetrate a lot of things. I once put holes in a Toyota engine block from a .22 Marlin rifle firing CCI Mini-Mags. Putting holes through wood and drywall would be no big deal.

[lapster]

I have a feeling this guy’s last words to his wife were, “Okay, I’ll go inside and shoot ‘er off, and you stand out here and watch where the bullet comes out.”

[osagebowman]

I’m going with murder on this one.

I'm thinking the same thing. LSA

[aomagrat]

Going out on a limb here...Democratic voter?

Maybe you just proved my tagline.

[wagglebee]

A rifle can do a lot more than a hand gun. I’m not questioning that a .22 can go through wood and drywall, I’m just wondering how much mass and velocity it could possibly have left when it hit the woman.

[rightinthemiddle]

I resent that! I lived in a fine Missouri trailer for a couple of years.

Sedalia’s north of us. They’re more sophisticated.

[DaveyB]

...Some people are just stoopid. Everyone knows you don’t use a .22 to install a satellite dish. Ya gotta use a .38 minimum but a .357 mag works better.

More Power -grunt, grunt, grunt- the Tim Taylor way!

[rightinthemiddle]

If he did, he can get the Playboy channel now.

[cripplecreek]

I saw a .22 long go through a set of carpeted stairs, a closet full of coats, the closet door, an exterior wall, and into a maple tree out side.

[Abathar]

I was unfortunate enough to have lived in a trailer for a couple of years while we were moving to another state and building our new home. (never will I do that again, ever)
I think I could have shot through the exterior wall with my pump pellet rifle, and I am not exaggerating.

[TCats]

Maybe a trailer?

[Renegade]

.22 magnums give quite a punch !

[rightinthemiddle]

Wait, this is in Deepwater by Truman Lake.

Yep, redneck country.

[Abathar]

I lived in a Michigan trailer for a couple of years, so I have earned the right to mock those who have ever made that mistake!!

[colorado tanker]

This could be a great “Darwin” award if only the bullet had ricocheted and killed the guy stupid enough to use a pistol instead of a drill...

Maybe she could be nominated on the theory it was terminally stupid to marry a guy that stupid?

All things considered, though, I have to go with those who suspect this really wasn't an accident.

[rightinthemiddle]

Oooh...a Michigan trailer. Them’s fancy.

[stayathomemom]

So you’re saying maybe it wasn’t an accident? Hmmmmmmm.

[wagglebee]

Magnums do, but not a typical .22, of course it might have just been vinyl siding he was going through.

It still seems suspicious because the wires for the satellite generally go out near the ceiling and his wife should have been much lower.

[Lurking in Kansas]

Sedalia’s north of us. They’re more sophisticated.

Yeah, I hear they have double-wides up there.

[ConservaTexan]

"Stupid is as stupid does." - Forrest Gump, 1994

[blackdog]

A .22 is really a very deadly round. A round fired, not knowing what’s beyond your target can travel incredible distances. The bullet is really not that much smaller than the AR-15 those a$$ clowns used to shoot up Washington DC area. It’s fragmentation is wicked as well.

[dmz]

Going out on a limb here...Democratic voter?
_______

Of course the popular wisdom on this site is all dems are gun grabbers (unless they’re celebs), so clearly this was a GOPer.

Stupidity knows no political party (in case you missed the actual point).

[Abathar]

**snicker**

Heard a lot of talk like that when I lived there. They all envied me because I owned mine free and clear, made me a snob.