Boy Accidentally Shoots Man in Outhouse
By Associated Press

Tue Nov 29, 6:01 PM

VERSHIRE, Vt. - A Massachusetts man was shot while using the outhouse at his family's camp by a boy who was target shooting.

Chris Flanagan, 41, of Holliston, Mass., was standing in the outhouse on Saturday morning when he was hit in the chest by a bullet that came through the door.

Police said the shot was fired from a .22-caliber rifle used by a young relative. They declined to give the relationship between the two.

Police were investigating whether the boy, who was not identified because he is a minor, had missed his target or intentionally shot at the outhouse.

Police said the boy was not aware that Flanagan was inside the outhouse.

Flanagan was in fair condition Tuesday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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Information from: Lebanon Valley News, http://www.vnews.com

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Information from: Lebanon Valley News, http://www.vnews.com

Crazy story.

Good thing he was standing when he got hit. If he was sitting down, the bullet could have hit him in the head instead of the chest.

Moral of the story, Always stand while shitting in an outhouse.

strange, last week I was just talking to a buddy at work about that same thing happening. he said that he has seen a number of people, to check their rifle perhaps after knocking it over or dropping it, fire at a knothole in a tree or an outhouse. he said there was a big hollow tree someplace he used to hunt and he'd stand in there for a couple minutes when hunting in bad weather and when his father saw him he gave him a bunch of shit for it and said soebody could shoot at that tree to check their gun and never know you were there.