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A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a comment on one of those tell me where you're from without mentioning the country type of threads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Read this as "man talking trash to dumpster" and figured someone's cybertruck had a BSOD or somethin.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Yeah, yeah, but notice how no trash thief attacked him on his way to the dumpster thanks to him having a gun on his person!

/s

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

I misread this as "talking trash to dumpster" and thought "The police will come up with any excuse to shoot innocent people and make it look like a suicide now, won't they?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Thank God he was safe from whatever threat he was so afraid of that he thought he needed a loaded gun to take his trash to the end of his driveway.

I'm so fucking glad that I'm not so terrified of everything and everyone that I think I need a loaded gun 24 hours a day to protect myself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

take his trash

I was this-many reads in when I finally understood he wasn't TALKING trash to his dumpster.

"You want a piece of me, you smelly filth, you rubbish heap, you trumpsterfire of human indecen--BANG! Arghhhhhh...."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's what you get for talking trash to your trash!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

What could go wrong if I walk with a loaded gun with the safety off?

Nothing! This way I can shoot someone so fast that cops would envy me!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So he was carrying an unsecured weapon? It's good that he just shot himself, and not some innocent bystander.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Loaded weapons poorly carried by inbred hillbillies is a significant cause of injury and death to their betters.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Guns don't kill people... Wait, yes they do, this article proves it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Good for the gun. It had nothing to lose but its chains.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For some reason i read man talking trash to dumpster

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Why do you think he brought the gun? That dumpster kept running its mouth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

"What? You're just some big green box! You ain't shit! You're full of shit! What are you gonna do, sit there and smell kinda bad? Your mother was a steel mill."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Eh that sucks. I feel bad for their family.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Who prints the Darwin awards?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I definitely need a gun to take out my trash. You never know when trash-monsters might jump out of the dumpster and then what.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

sounds like he might have a coon problem.

those damn procyons, not humans. Obviously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Then it lays its eggs in your ear

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

^ Says man who has never encountered violence in his white-bread suburb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I live in downtown Oakland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe San Antonio has a trash monster problem.

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