Driver Shoots His Way Out Of Submerged Car

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Jan 19, 2010 at 2:15 pm

An unnamed 28-year-old man was driving over a bridge in Roseville, California when his phone activated and startled him. He drove his station wagon into Pleasant Grove Creek, where it sank six to eight feet under water.

The Roseville Fire Department said the man used his handgun to shoot out his vehicle window, giving himself an opportunity to escape and swim to safety.

The man flagged down a passing vehicle and was treated for minor injuries by emergency crews.

Remember that tip the next time you drive into a body of water. Link -via Arbroath

Tags: Car, firearm, Gun, submerged, vehicle

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Skipweasel
Jan 19th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
“When his phone activated and startled him”?

That has got to rank along with “The dog ate my homework”.
Drew
Jan 19th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
How exactly was the ‘unarmed’ man armed with a handgun?
Drew
Jan 19th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
That’s what happens when you don’t pay attention. I guess unnamed and unarmed are two different things.
Miss Cellania
Jan 19th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
One of the comments on the story questioned the wisdom of a man who can be startled by a cell phone carrying a loaded firearm. Then again, the dog that ate the homework is not much of a threat, either.
Alician
Jan 19th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Once again someone using a handgun in place of a hammer.

Good thing nobody got shot like last time.
Skipweasel
Jan 19th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
“When all you have is a hammer, problems all start to look like nails.” – I leave the reader to adapt this to handgnus as necessary.
felixthecat
Jan 19th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Another gun, another life saved.
Geekazoid
Jan 19th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I can just see it now, the NRA and their ilk waxing lyrical about how a gun saved a life in this case.
Briannana
Jan 19th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Wouldn’t have mattered which way he shot. If he was totally submerged, the bullet would have slowed down about 6 inches into the water and virtually stopped anyway.
carl
Jan 19th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
One of these days I’ll stop being surprised at how bitter and cynical everyone is on the internet.
sharkbite75
Jan 19th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Sounds like Roseville to me… good chance he was high, that’s why he got startled. Just IMO.
Skyfrog
Jan 20th, 2010 at 12:10 am
If a cell phone startles you so badly that you drive off a bridge, you should probably not be behind the wheel of an automobile.
Larfin Jackarse
Jan 20th, 2010 at 3:32 am
@ Skyfrog

Nor have a gun.
Larfin Jackarse
Jan 20th, 2010 at 3:32 am
ps: is the car ok?
Gail Pink
Jan 20th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Lesson: If you are that easily startled, turn your cell phone off while driving.
Gauldar
Jan 20th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
I’m thinking that he didn’t want to admit he was using his cell phone while driving.
shecky
Jan 20th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
He should have shot the phone before he got in the car.
Christophe
Jan 20th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I had a comment but my dog ate it.

.. or I shot it, dunno…
C.A.
Jan 22nd, 2010 at 9:02 am
@shecky:

Hahaha! Very nice!

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