FISHHOOK + BUTT MADE CHARLES AKIN REMPE SHOOT

EITHER he was in severe pain or he was just plain crazy.
But Charles Akin Rempe claimed he had been blasting his semiautomatic pistol because he had: "a fishhook embedded in his butt," and he wanted to get their attention.
Quite why he couldn't pick up the phone remains a mystery, but neighbors Frederick, MD apartment said he'd been making noise for a few hours.
Cops said he feared someone was trying to break into his house and got the hook stuck when he was trying to flee the perceived danger, police said.

Lieutenant Clark Pennington told AOL: "He felt that there were people that were trying to break into his home - he thought he was in danger," 

"The fish hook was a result of the actions he took to get away."

Amazingly he didn't hit anyone with the .45 gun even through one round went through a side window and lodged in the brick wall of an adjacent building. 

Charges are pending but cops took him to hospital first. 

STUDENT BRINGS LOADED GUN AS GIFT FOR TEACHER

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NOVEL GIFT

IT used to be that you'd bring in an apple for your teacher or maybe a box of chocolates.
So imagine the surprise on Florida educator got, when she opened her present to find a loaded .22-caliber handgun at the bottom of the assorted toiletries she'd been handed. Needless to say the stunned teach at the Allamanda Elementary School immediately started to investigate and it turned out the students grandmother had hidden the pistol in the box to hide it.

Unknowingly the girl had then picked the wrong box in which to wrap her teacher's present.  
Reportedly the gun was never actually in the school building or in the hands of students but that's grandma for you - always hiding guns in gift boxes.