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Eight Gunfights That Probably Aren't True

8. I shot my toe off! In 1866, a ne'er-do-well shoots off his toe and dies a week later of infection.

7. A bank guard trained his dog to fetch his guns. When the bank was being robbed, Fido shoots him, fetching his master's shotgun!

6. Blindsided! A blind beggar shoots two robbers after they kick him while fleeing from the bank!

5. Dead eye dog! An angry mutt shoots his would be killer by knocking a loaded pistol off a table!

4. Never double down! A gambler is shot by mistake by the town sheriff when he bends over to pick up his hat during a hold up. Talk about down on your luck!

3. Ouch! Brass in pocket! A farmer fatally shoots himself looking for change in his pants! He accidently fires a derringer nestled beside his privates. Oops!

2. Deadeye Dick! A detective dies after accidentally shooting his partner in a dark warehouse. As he falls, his partner returns fire, striking him in the eye!

1. It's over when the fat lady falls! An angry husband dies after his 350 lb wife falls on him during a fight. In a rage, he shoots his portly bride, but the bullet lodges in her fat. She falls, pinning her hubby on the ground, and he dies of suffocation!

Not much stirring in this post! I thought people would have pointed out the dead fellow in the picture.

The one holding the ‘73?

DF

I don't think he knows...

I think you right.

DF

When I first looked at the picture, I didn't realize that there was a dead guy on a board. I suppose this was a trophy picture of a posse who got their man.

The dead guy is Ned Christie

Yeah, he looked a bit stiff, especially the way he was holding that Winchester.

DF

Another mystery solved! Thanks!

From Wikipedia - Photograph of US Deputy Marshals posing with the corpse of Ned Christie in November 1892. (1) Paden Tolbert (2) Capt. G.S. White (3) Coon Ratteree (4) Enoch Mills (5) deceased Ned Christie (6) Thomas Johnson (7) Charles Copeland (8) Heck Bruner - courtesy of the US Marshall's Service and viewers like you!

Trophy picture.

Didn't some of our troops get in trouble with trophy photos...?

A different day, for sure. Those guys didn't have to worry about being P.C., worry about their MSM profile. They just took care of business.

DF

Yes, a lot of trophy photos are still taken these days too. Digital photos are easy to take, keep and distribute from anywhere on the planet. Back in the wild west daze, I think pictures were not only a record of what was done, but also it sent out a warning to criminals that we will hunt you down. You can run, but you cannot hide.

Like Bin Laden, for example.

Wonder how they got the bullet holes and bloody evidence cleaned up on ole Ned before the trophy photo?

You know he must have been messed up a bit after those guys got through ventilating him...

DF

A scrub brush and some buckets of water. 🙂