Boy Accidentally Shoots Man in Outhouse

AP ^ | 11/29/5

[SmithL]

Vershire, VT -- A Massachusetts man was shot while using the outhouse at his family's camp by a boy who was target shooting.

Chris Flanagan, 41, of Holliston, Mass., was standing in the outhouse on Saturday morning when he was hit in the chest by a bullet that came through the door.

Police said the shot was fired from a .22-caliber rifle used by a young relative.

[SmithL]

What a crappy thing to do.

[SmithL]

THREE ROOMS AND A PATH

In Nashville, every family boasts
Of five rooms and a bath.
But in my youth I never had
But three rooms and a path.

They built the outhouse on the brink
Of Tumblin Creek, and then
Each time I passed I had an urge
To push the outhouse in.

For weeks I fought this powerful urge,
And one day I was weak
I slipped out to the outhouse and
I pushed it in the creek.

That night my Dad called me aside
And all he had to say
Was "Do you know who pushed the house
Into the creek today?"

I told my Dad that it was I
He didn’t even chide
But then and there with a leather belt
Prepared to tan my hide.

"But Daddy" I said, "George Washington
Cut down the cherry tree
He told the truth and so his Pa
Let little George go free".

"But let me ask you something son"
My Dad said with a frown
"Was his Pa in the cherry tree
When George cut it down?"

Pek Gunn
Tennessee State Poet Laureate

[InsureAmerica]

the obvious solution is to ban all guns.. or have flourescent orange outhouses, and I don't think that's an option.

[saganite]

He busted a crap on him.

[InsureAmerica]

he crapped out early

[sit-rep]

That kid mostlikely shot at that old out house dozens of times. This time, he did not know someone was in there...Bummer for both I guess.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Holliston, Mass

That's my hometown! I grew up in Holliston.

[fnord]

aint that the sh!t

[GSWarrior]

We used to tip over outhouses on Halloween in small town Colorado. We were culturally challenged or something.

[fnord]

they still have outhouses in Vermont ??

Ode To The Little Brown Shack
(Billy Ed Wheeler)

They past an ordinance in the town
Said we'd have to tear it down
That little brown shack out back so dear to me
Though the health department said
It's day was over and dead
It will stand forever in my memory

Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
There's not another like it in the country or the town

It was not too long ago
That I went tripping through the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog
Where I'd sit me down to rest
Like a snow bird on her nest
And read the Sears and Roebuck catalog

I would hum a happy tune
Peeping through the quarter moon
Just like my Pappy's kin had done before
It was in that quiet pot
Daily cares could be forgot
And it gave the same relief to rich and poor

It was not a castle fair
I could build my future there
Build castles to the yellow jacket's drone
I could orbit round the sun
Fight with General Washington
Or be a king upon his own throne

It wasn't fancy built at all
Had newspapers on the wall
It was air conditioned in the wintertime
It was just a humble hut
But it's door was never shut
And a man could get inside without a dime

[hoosierham]

This poem illustrates the real stupidity and laziness of many people ;the outhouse shouldn't have been built to foul the creek...but that was a very common location .Some of my neighbors built their outhouses of the early 20th century on the banks of the branches upstream from the family swimmin' hole in at least two cases!!!!!

A properly sited and constructed privy was actually not a bad solution.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Maybe NOW his parents will teach him the "be sure of your backstop" rule. Better to teach kids basic gun safety BEFORE letting them touch a gun. I knew a woman who had her 3 year old son trained to recite the rules before each time he pulled the trigger at the range.

[Finger Monkey]

Dude, it suuuucks to get shot in the outhouse.

Healing is hell.

And the itching!

[SmithL]

A properly sited and constructed privy was actually not a bad solution but not much inspiration for a hillbilly poet.

[sit-rep]

3!! Damn...I'm hesitant in starting with my nine year old!

[hoosierham]

Something about this shooting smells....

[Arrowhead1952]

From an email I recieved today.

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Once there was a little boy that lived in the country. They had to use an outhouse, and the little boy hated it because it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter and stank all the time. The outhouse was sitting on the bank of a creek and the boy determined that one day he would push that outhouse into the creek.
One day after a spring rain, the creek was swollen so the little boy decided today was the day to push the outhouse into the creek. So he got a large stick and started pushing. Finally, the outhouse toppled into the creek and floated away.

That night his dad told him they were going to the woodshed after supper. Knowing that meant a spanking, the little boy asked why. The dad replied, "Someone pushed the outhouse into the creek today. It was you, wasn't it son?"

The boy answered yes. Then he thought a moment and said, "Dad, I read in school today that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and didn't get into trouble because he told the truth."

The dad replied, "Well, son, George Washington's father wasn't taking a crap in the cherry tree."

[SmithL]

Not bad. Pek does it better in verse.

[Redcloak]

What were they both doin' in the outhouse?

[NonValueAdded]

"I'm gonna shoot the crap out of that craphouse"

"Ouch! I'm shot!"

"Oh crap!"