Man shot by friend when prank goes wrong

ABC2News ^ | May 15, 2012 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

ELKTON, Md. (WMAR) - A man is recovering after being shot by his best friend in a prank that went wrong.

Cecil County spokesperson Lt. Michael Holmes says deputies responded to the 600 block of Blue Ball Road in Elkton at about 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Holmes says the victim in this case was a recent victim of a home burglary and was telling his friend about it and saying that he could easily be a victim as well and that he needed to better secure his home.

The victim went to his friends home early that morning to pull a prank on him, just to show him how unsafe his home was. The victim wiggled a door handle that lead to where his friend and his 9-year-old child were sitting inside.

The shooter quickly grabbed his 9-millimeter handgun and opened the door. The victim rushed inside the home and growled at his friend, at that point, the shooter shot his friend in the chest.

[Vaquero]

Reminds me of the family camping in bear country...teenage nephews pretended to be bears trashing the uncles tent at night...uncle fired his model 29 through the tent killing 1 nephew.

Not an overly bright practice joke...in retrospect

[Daffynition]

Prankster was lucky the load wasn’t FMJ.

[Billthedrill]

Consider it a public service. Now I know that when somebody comes bursting through my door growling I will NOT shoot him with a 9mm handgun.

I'm thinking in terms of buckshot. Two warning shots to the torso, one to the head, and then yell "halt!" At that point if he says "just kidding" we'll pop a top on a brewski and laugh the whole thing off.

[JaguarXKE]

To quote Foxworthy: “Here’s you sign!”

[Daffynition]

I was thinking in a similar vein....a 12 gu. at close range would be very, very ugly.

[dfwgator]

Gee, I wonder if alcohol was involved?

[BlueLancer]

Uhhh ...

[JaguarXKE]

Do’h! Well, I guess that’s my sign!

[Daffynition]

Producers are probably just filling a need....

[Hunton Peck]

The victim went to his friends home...to show him how unsafe his home was.

He succeeded.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The victim went to his friends home early that morning to pull a prank on him, just to show him how unsafe his home was.

Afterwords they were going to go break into the tiger's cage at the zoo.

[Gertie]

Gu.—Gu.— wake up, very very stupid, or is that your idea of an abbreviation for “gulp”?

[Daffynition]

>>Gu.—Gu.<<

Is that code for *double tap?*

[Daffynition]

Must be the origin of the maxim: *Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.*

[sbMKE]

Take that zombie Bill Murray.

[tbw2]

The home owner did the right thing - protect his home against a perceived threat. By rushing and growling, the attacker proved the perception reasonable by acting as an attacker.
We can’t let teens get off on “I’m not robbing, it’s a prank!” for entering others homes.
And this adult should have known better.

[Nebr FAL owner]

ROTFLMAO well said & in this case it sure does .

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m thinking Darwin Award. Does anybody know if the victim had kids?

Maryland “Freak State” PING!