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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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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsSteffanApr 1st 2008 1:22PM
There is an interior design guy around northern California that walks around with a 20 gauge shotgun and shoots holes into ceilings, walls, and floors where he believes a lighting fixtures, cabinets, etc should be....hows that legal????
JudartApr 1st 2008 3:52PM
In reference to all of the above comments, evidently none of you watch the Red Green "by the way it is a Canadian" television show. This sounds like a good script for a R.G. show. As Red says "if your wife doesn't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy".
mannydeguzmanjrartistNov 2nd 2009 8:50AM
Haha! What's that? a crude poor man's way to run coaxial cable into the house? A 38 caliber pistol is more expensive than an electric drill - even cost lives, LoL!