Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
On the one hand, quite tragic. On the other hand, quintessentially North Carolinian.
A legally blind man fatally shot his wife while trying to balance a plate of fried chicken and a pistol, authorities said. Kelly Honeycutt of Morganton was holding a .38-caliber pistol he found in a box while he and his wife were moving into a new home Monday night, said Burke County Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Beall said. He accidentally shot his wife Norita in the head after she handed her wheelchair-bound husband a plate of chicken [...] Beall said the husband was more than 50 percent blind, had limited movement and was in advanced stages of multiple sclerosis.
There's a lesson in all of this that really shouldn't ever have to be taught in the first place.
TrackBackWho says blind people can't shoot straight?
Also, just in case any kin or friends show up here, it really is a tragic story, and my condolences to everyone involved.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at July 19, 2006 01:44 PMLet's make some jokes about their names and see if we can get them on over here.
Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at July 19, 2006 01:56 PMDo you suppose it's possible that the fella may just have had about all of his wife's fried chicken that he cared to take, and is about to get away with the perfect murder?
And don't keep us in suspense about the lesson - is it to never hand chicken to a blind man when he's holding a gun? Don't shoot the hand that feeds you? Or that we need the government to do SOMETHING about hand guns to protect us from ourselves?
I would settle for a better job of revoking drivers' licenses. Whatta you want to bet this guy still has his?
Actually, the whole sad thing sounds like it could be the ending to some Flannery O'Connor story. On the bright side, this just might be what Kelly needs to redeem his soul ...
Posted by: TokyoTom at July 20, 2006 12:12 AMBlind people with parasthesias/paralysis should not eat while holding a gun? People with MS need to eat something less fatty than fried chicken? Guns make bad napkins?
It is a tragic, pointless death, and I am sorry the guy has poorly treated M.S. If you are going to handle a gun you have to have the instinct to put it down before you pick up anything else.
Posted by: Ru at July 20, 2006 12:36 AMI recall a big news flap a few years back here in Virginny, where there was a big to-do about whether the legally blind should be permitted to participate in musket-loading (is that the right terminology?) hunting.
No google skills to turn it up though. Alas. Alack.
Posted by: Stanley at July 20, 2006 01:31 AMActually, the whole sad thing sounds like it could be the ending to some Flannery O'Connor story. On the bright side, this just might be what Kelly needs to redeem his soul ...
Nice.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at July 20, 2006 10:07 AMI DONT THINK THAT IF THIS WERE YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER YOU WOULD BE MAKING THESE COMMENTS!!!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU!
Posted by: hsw at July 31, 2006 12:32 AMWell, I wasn't swayed by the use of all caps, but the multiple exclamation points got me.
Posted by: Gaijin Biker at July 31, 2006 11:08 AMYOU WOULDN'T BE SO GLIB IF THIS WAS YOUR BLOG, GB!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: apostropher at July 31, 2006 11:12 AMALWAYS IM RIGHT -- FUCK YOU FOOL
MY OWN BELIEFS -- I MAKE THE RULES
AN ATHEIST A COMMIE A FAGGOT AND THEN
I KNOW RIGHT NOW WHAT GROUP YOURE IN
I AM ALLCAPS PEOPLE...
We just want to note that, sure, different strokes for different folks and everything, but we do not love ALLCAPS PEOPLE.
Posted by: The Family Stone at July 31, 2006 08:38 PMDear hsw:
If Kelly and Norita Honeycutt are your parents, then please allow me to express my deepest sympathies at your loss of your mother through this tragic accident.
If not, then perhaps you might share a laugh with us at how cruel and senseless much of the world is. You may not have noticed, but the chief purpose of humor is to allow individuals and groups to find strength by laughing off their own or others' woes - it is a way to laugh in the face of the Fates and the Grim Reaper, even though we know we might be next.
So what jokes (lessons or analogies) can you draw from the situation?
How about the legally blind man is US foreign policy, his wife is Bush's former paleocon supporters and the found gun is our lack of serious attention to the Izzy-Pali conflict? Come on, help us find some senseless tragedies to laugh at.
norita was my mother i find no humor in the stupid mistakes of ignorant people disabled or not. bottom line blind guys should not own guns. also norita was killed 9 days before her first and only grandchild was borne. love ya mom tvm
Posted by: travis miller at July 8, 2007 11:47 PM