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Woman makes cup of tea after being shot in head
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 04/18/2009 11:02:16 AM PDT by Chet 99

Police and doctors hailed the survival of Tammy Sexton, 47, as miraculous after a bullet from a .38-calibre handgun struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head. She is expected to make a full recovery, while her husband shot himself dead after the attack on his wife.

But law enforcement officers in Jackson County, Mississippi, were also astonished that Mrs Sexton offered them tea when they arrived at her home after the shooting.

Sheriff Mike Byrd said: "When the officer got there she said, 'What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened.

"She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.

"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God. You just don't hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they're dead."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence
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1 posted on 04/18/2009 11:02:16 AM PDT by Chet 99
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Wow...


2 posted on 04/18/2009 11:02:34 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99
Wanna bet a pit bull shot her?

AV

3 posted on 04/18/2009 11:08:10 AM PDT by Atomic Vomit (Vim Toot!)
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To: Chet 99

Sounds like something out of a horror flick.

“They don’t know they’re dead...”

Only in her case, she refused to BE dead!


4 posted on 04/18/2009 11:08:16 AM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Chet 99

Like I always say, if God wants you dead, nobody can save you. If he wants you alive, nobody can kill you.


5 posted on 04/18/2009 11:08:43 AM PDT by Graymatter (Don't enable destroyers. File for chapter 44 -- barackruptcy.)
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To: Chet 99

Missed her brain completely it seems. I have an ex for whom that would be a very likely possibility!


6 posted on 04/18/2009 11:09:42 AM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Chet 99

“When she sat the cup of tea down in front of the officers a large pit bull jumped out of the cup and killed everyone on the block....”


7 posted on 04/18/2009 11:12:19 AM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
"I have an ex for whom that would be a very likely possibility!"

You were married to her, too?

8 posted on 04/18/2009 11:17:50 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Chet 99

“But law enforcement officers in Jackson County, Mississippi, were also astonished that Mrs Sexton offered them tea when they arrived at her home after the shooting. “

Amazing this happened!!!

However, this being from the UK... and this woman being from Mississippi...

They are putting their own idea of tea into this situation. She more than likely did not make herself a “cup of tea”, but a glass of Sweet Iced Tea, which is common in this area. And it is also common to offer any visiter a glass of Iced Tea.

As Dolly Parton said in Steel Magnolias, Sweet Ice Tea. It’s the housewine of the south!

Just a correction there.


9 posted on 04/18/2009 11:19:07 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: Graymatter
Like I always say, if God wants you dead, nobody can save you. If he wants you alive, nobody can kill you.

Pretty much.

I say: "If it ain't your time, it ain't your time."

10 posted on 04/18/2009 11:19:14 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 88 of our national holiday from reality.)
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He said that her husband had been on probation for domestic violence and officers had been seeking to serve him with a court order demanding he stayed away from his wife and their rural home.

Justice was served. These POS take out everyone along with themselves. Go off yourselves, cowards, and leave the rest alone.

11 posted on 04/18/2009 11:22:39 AM PDT by Lauren BaRecall ("I will not compromise on life" - what Steele should have said.)
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maybe the force from the tea parties was strong in her


12 posted on 04/18/2009 11:28:36 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: Chet 99
A shot "squarely in the forehead," may have basically given her a partial lobotomy, and totally missed brain regions that regulate vital functions. It is reminiscent of the famous case of Phineas Gage.
13 posted on 04/18/2009 11:28:53 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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It's just a flesh wound.
14 posted on 04/18/2009 11:30:20 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: ChicagahAl

You were both married to my former boss? What are the chances.


15 posted on 04/18/2009 11:30:57 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: Chet 99

These is not the first time this has happened to someone.


16 posted on 04/18/2009 11:31:53 AM PDT by fso301
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To: hinckley buzzard

There are less dangerous ways to brainwash someone into voting for “zero”.


17 posted on 04/18/2009 11:31:59 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Chet 99

My ex had that kind of luck.


18 posted on 04/18/2009 11:33:50 AM PDT by LiberConservative (0bama is to the presidency what Kenny G is to jazz.)
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To: LiberConservative

I don’t think I want any more information there...


19 posted on 04/18/2009 11:36:55 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 88 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: synbad600
You were both married to my former boss? What are the chances.

Wow, apparently we used to work together...

20 posted on 04/18/2009 11:36:57 AM PDT by xjcsa (Currently shouting "I told you so" about Michael Steele on my profile page.)
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