Sunday, June 29, 2008
Damn…
Sometimes “Oops” just isn’t enough.
A military shooting demonstration in southeast France on Sunday left 16 people wounded, including children, when real bullets were used instead of blank ones, officials said.
Four of the wounded were in serious condition, including a 3-year-old child, Bernard Lemaire, chief of the regional administration in Aude, said on France-3 television. Fifteen of the injured were civilians.
Hope they all pull through.
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Zut alors!
I have no idea what that means.
Of course it went wrong. There’s no way the civilians would be as prepared to surrender as the French military.
That’s a mistake that my son wouldn’t have made when he was six: “The weapon is always loaded. Never point the weapon at anything you don’t want to destroy. Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot. Always know what’s behind your target.”
Ignorant use of weapons is bad, but this goes beyond ignorance to criminal negligence. Even in the French military, you should be able to expect a “Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment” to understand basic weapons handling.