An unemployed sanitation worker in Miami is also facing life in prison — for shooting himself in the privates.
In a drunken stupor, the man reached for a pistol he had hidden in his pants.
The gun went off, and the bullet struck the man in the… nuggets. At first, he told officers someone else had shot him, but changed his story after paramedics found the shell casing in his underwear.
Cops ruled the shooting accidental, but the man was charged with a concealed weapons violation and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The maximum sentence for those crimes is normally 15 years but, because the man has a record as a violent career criminal, a Miami prosecutor is asking the judge to send him away for life.
The man’s public defender calls that
"ridiculous," and says the man’s injury is punishment enough