Especially if you choose the wrong tool for the job and couple that with some bad decisions and poor judgement, it can end in a tragedy.

As was the case with a 52-year old dentist from Holland who tried to get rid of some mice in his vacation home in Jumilhac-le-Grandin, in the French Dordogne.

Aggrevated by noisy mice, he decided to take matters into his own hands and hunt them down.

However; instead of using the usual tools for such a task - traps, poison or even a broom - he decided to use a rifle. Wrong decision number one.

But instead of trying to shoot the mice (which sounds logical when you grab a gun), he decided to try and club them to dead by holding the barrel of the gun and trying to hit them with the butt of the rifle. Wrong decisions number two.

The third bad decision he made turned out to be his last and fatal one: not checking if the rifle was loaded.

When he swung the gun at one of the mice it promptly went off, hitting him in the abdomen and wounding him fatally.

See:

http://www.sudouest.fr/2010/07/26/coup-de-feu-mortel-lors-d-une-chasse-aux-loirs-a-jumilhac-le-grand-24-147289-1867.php

And:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/7269608/__Tandarts_schiet_zichzelf_neer__.html?cid=short

Submitted on 07/28/2010

Submitted by: Henk van de Goor
Reference: Sud-Ouest, 28-07-2010

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Bruce said:
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I thought we have had stories similar to this in the past but couldn't find any, so I think it's worth keeping. Thanks, Henk!

Candi said:
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Several of the stories of the past have had elements of this, but this is the first that combines them all! Thanks Henk!

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