Man Wakes Up With A Bullet In His Tongue

[mcs328]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...llet_in_tongue

Man Wakes Up With a Bullet in His Tongue

Tue Jun 21, 6:11 PM ET

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police say a man who woke up with a serious headache walked 12 blocks to a hospital with a swollen lip and powder burns. Doctors discovered the problem. 47-year-old Wendell Coleman had a bullet lodged in his tongue.

Coleman told police that a woman stuck a gun barrel in his mouth during a dispute around 2:30 Tuesday morning and that he heard the gun go off.

Police say Coleman then went home to sleep.

What authorities did with the bullet wasn't clear last night.

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I wonder what the fight was about.

[MikeD]

Coleman told police that a woman stuck a gun barrel in his mouth during a dispute around 2:30 Tuesday morning and that he heard the gun go off.

Police say Coleman then went home to sleep.

The sequence of events doesn't exactly add up.

If I ever get shot in the mouth, I don't think immediately going home to sleep will be high on my list of immediate priorities.

[mcs328]

Definitely very stranger behavior. Sleep wouldn't be on my list either but how come the bullet didn't go through his toungue?

[Thesifer]

Maybe it was a .22

[Gothic Girl]

Wow, I have to agree. Sleep wouldn't be on my list either. It's amazing that it didn't get lodged in his brain or something.

[bachviet]

I don't think he realized that he was shot.

Even with a .22 rifle, the bullet should have thru his tongue.

[cadetevon]

47-year-old Wendell Coleman had a bullet lodged in his tongue.

Man. I hate when that happens.

[nickel]

something is wrong with that picture. that man must've been extremely drunk/drugged up.

[LegendKiller]

Maybe he had a rack full of 14k and it bounced around once or twice and then lodged in his tongue.

[InfiniteNothing]

Other possibilities: Genetic mutation or lots of kissing left him with amazing tongue muscles.

[ArkiStan]

This is not good publicity for the gun manufacturer.

[Houdini]

I don't think he realized that he was shot.

Even with a .22 rifle, the bullet should have thru his tongue.

Or a .22 pistol. The lowly .22 is often seen as less than a gun, but if I'm not mistaken, more people are killed each year by a .22 than any other caliber. When shot into the chest, they fragment and bounce around a lot. Nasty. But cheap to shoot.

[Markel]

I say he just bit the bullet.