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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Houston-area man was killed in a hunting accident after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in the back of a pick-up truck, triggering a blast that pierced the vehicle and the hunter's leg, a local sheriff said.

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Perry Price, a 46-year-old math teacher, shot a goose on Saturday then put his gun in the back of the truck where the dog was waiting to retrieve the bird.

"I've been in law enforcement 20 years and this is probably the strangest one I've had," said Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive.

Investigators found paw prints and mud from the dog, a chocolate Labrador retriever named Arthur, on the shotgun, LaRive said.

Price was taken to a local hospital, but died from a loss of blood after doctors were unable to revive him.

(Reporting by Anna Driver in Houston, editing by Todd Eastham)

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and how is this poetic justice? Just to let you know, you have to comment on the story, they don't like Copy and Paste SPAM here.

I'm all for Dog Hunting, where the hunter is the dog. Like we say in Britain about Foxes; that they (the Foxes enjoy the chase). It seems that American Dogs do also

and how is this poetic justice? Just to let you know, you have to comment on the story, they don't like Copy and Paste SPAM here.

Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.

I suppose:

Vice (although it's subjective if you'd consider it so) = Shooting animals
Ironic twist = Shot by animal

As a hunter, I can say he died because he failed to follow proper gun protocol, so it wasn't really poetic justice. I would, however, nominate him for a *Darwin Award.

*By doing something stupid (ignoring gun safety) he removed himself from the gene pool.

As a hunter, I can say he died because he failed to follow proper gun protocol, so it wasn't really poetic justice. I would, however, nominate him for a *Darwin Award.

*By doing something stupid (ignoring gun safety) he removed himself from the gene pool.

Yea, I'd say it's more of a Darwin Awards.

Yea, I'd say it's more of a Darwin Awards.

Are they mutually exclusive?

On the bright side of things, the hunter did get to cook his own goose.

a chocolate Labrador retriever named Arthur

:eek: I knew chocolate animals where dangerous!