Man Accidentally Kills Wife During Botched Satellite TV Install
You know those annoying pro-cable commercials that always talk about how awful or expensive it is to install a satellite dish, and how comparatively easy, cheap, and dependable cable is? Yeah, well, they don't have anything on this story out of Sedalia, Missouri, where a husband has admitted to shooting his wife during the install of a home satellite TV system.
Amazingly the husband, Ronald Long, was trying to use a .22-caliber pistol to shoot a hole through the wall in the couple's home to enable them to run a wire through to the television. His first shot was apparently unsuccessful in penetrating the wall and his second shot somehow hit his wife in the chest, 34-year-old Patsy Long. She was pronounced dead on Saturday night.
Ronald could now be charged with manslaughter, though prosecutors haven't confirmed whether that is their intention. It also remains to be seen whether the cable companies will start filming new ads about these new potential dangers of satellite dish installation, but we wouldn't put it past them.
In related news, and just in general, we'd like to know this: When will gadgets stop killing people!?
From KHQA
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 15)
JAUNVIVAMEXICO @ Mar 26th 2008 11:47AM
SHOULD OF USED A 38. STORY WOULD OF BEEN MORE BELIEVEABLE. POOR BASTARD DIDNT THINK IT OUT.
Ken @ Mar 26th 2008 11:56AM
The old maxim is: "Those too stupid to live, won't."
The apparent correlary to this is: "Those who insist on living in close proximity to those too stupid to live, won't live either!"
Don't make this a "Gun Issue" it's not. It's a STUPIDITY ISSUE!
butter @ Mar 26th 2008 12:05PM
Why a gun? What ever happened to a drill?????
ddhlonewolf @ Mar 26th 2008 12:14PM
I wonder if they need a dish installed at the Whitehouse Hmmmm.
Bear @ Mar 26th 2008 12:45PM
He just did it so he wouldn't have to share the remote....! No, seriously though, what kind of redneck idiot shoots a gun thru his roof to drill a hole to run a cable?!? Did it even occur to him he might hit electrical wiring or a water pipe, or ANYTHING else in his house? Absolutely, this was not a gun issue, it is a STUPIDITY issue. Sure hope they didn't have any children.
tellit @ Mar 26th 2008 12:45PM
Sounds like a bunch of BS to me. Better check the Life Insurance policies. Probably had her insured up to the hilt!!
LeslieK007 @ Mar 26th 2008 1:39PM
It just HAD to be someone from the SOUTH....I'm from New York and lived in Georgia for 10 years...Geeze. I believe it. A little thing called a drill ?...a hammer and a really long nail ? ...Who knows? Maybe,this idiot had success with this method in the past...lol... Now that I have lived there and experienced it, I believe it...As they say.."You might be a Redneck if..."
plburroughs @ Mar 26th 2008 1:42PM
A 22 slug will probably not leave a big enough hole for an RG-6 cable. Certainly not for two cables if it has a dual LNB.
eric_barbaric @ Mar 26th 2008 2:07PM
Wow...ever heard of using the right tool for the job moron? I really hope this guy gets charged with manslaughter. By the way LeslieK007, Missouri is the midwest, not the south.
Joseph Murphy @ Mar 26th 2008 3:46PM
LeslieK- I don't know where the guy is from, but if you're referring to Missouri as "the south," you are way off. I have lived in Missouri, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas. Missouri is as close to being part of "the south" as upstate New York is.
Joann @ Mar 26th 2008 7:47PM
Rednecks are in every state
Melissa @ Mar 26th 2008 8:15PM
LeslieK007 says:
It just HAD to be someone from the SOUTH....I'm from New York and lived in Georgia for 10 years...Geeze. I believe it. A little thing called a drill ?...a hammer and a really long nail ? ...Who knows? Maybe,this idiot had success with this method in the past...lol... Now that I have lived there and experienced it, I believe it...As they say.."You might be a Redneck if..."
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Why does it "HAVE" to be someone from the South? Stupid people live in every state, ya know. And for the record, it happened in Missouri, which isn't part of the South. I live in Tennessee, and here, we use drills for this purpose, NOT GUNS!
Raymage @ Mar 26th 2008 8:17PM
Where was this again?...Oh yeah--Missouri! Enough said.
Mr.Moron @ Mar 26th 2008 8:23PM
Hey,I need to run a 10" sewer line thru a concrete wall.Anyone know where I can borrow a patriot rocket ? Helloooooooooooooooooooooo
tfcrow @ Mar 26th 2008 8:29PM
He should have used a double barrel.
Dave C @ Mar 26th 2008 8:31PM
Seemed like a good idea at the time,probably didn't have a drill bit long enough to get through the wall.The bullet must have ricocheted(is that a word)?? and hit his wife. What a tradgedy over not having the proper tool for the job.
IRMARINE4 @ Mar 26th 2008 8:34PM
WHAT A DUMB @ STUPID WILL SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE THINKING ABOUT HOW STUPID HE IS
Thomas Molina @ Mar 26th 2008 8:41PM
JUST ANOTHER TYPICAL REDNECK STORY ABOUT SOME DUMBASS DOING SOMETHING STUPID LIKE SHOOTING A HOLE INTO A WALL. HE SHOULD HAVE GONE AND BORROWED A DRILL SO LIKE THAT, HE WOULDNT BE IN THE MESS HE FINDS HIMSELF IN NOW. PENDEJO!!!!
Politically Incorrect @ Mar 26th 2008 8:43PM
LeslieK007....The stupidest idiot I have ever known was from Pennsylvania, not the south. Say what you want about Southerners, but you've never heard of anyone retiring and moving north. If you were as smart as most Yankees would have us believe they are, you would have seen that this dork was from Missouri. That's, um, well, NORTH of the Mason-Dixon line. Now do like a good hemmorhoid and go back up. Thank you, ma'am/sir.
Diane Mitchell @ Mar 26th 2008 8:44PM
I think the man should have used his head instead of a gun for doing anything in his home ,that is unless he purposely wants to kill someone .