9. Shoot Themselves In The Knee
tumblrAt 2am on Tuesday, 26th October 2010, a 63-year-old man living in Boulder, Colorado in the USA, and rejoicing in the name Sanford Rothman, awoke to a loud BANG. Apparently hed shot himself in the knee with the 9mm handgun he kept on his bedside table, all while sleeping like a tiny baby (or like a gun-toting senior citizen, if you want to split hairs). This would all be odd enough, but stranger things have happened, right? Except almost the exact same thing happened around three years later. Early on Tuesday 29th July 2013 in Concord, New Hampshire, an unnamed man was reported as having woken in his own kitchen, armed, and bleeding from the knee. He called his wife at work in a panic, who called 911 (we think we see where the brains live in this family) and had her husband hospitalised. Police had determined that the shooting was accidental, and were investigating where the weapon had been kept prior to the incident occurring. Ourselves, we just cant help wondering what is it about the knee with these people? Were they attacked as a child by a rabid kneecap? Did a home wrecking ankle run off with their father, leading to years of repressed anger towards large load-bearing joints in general? We may never know.