Police investigate how a handgun ended up in driver's bumper
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LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Talk about gunning the engine.
Authorities say a driver near Tacoma, Washington, saw an object strike the front of his car during his evening commute Wednesday. When he stopped for gas 18 miles (29 kilometers) later, he discovered it was a handgun.
The weapon was embedded in his bumper, barrel-end first, with the trigger sticking out just below the driver's-side headlight.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Guy Gill says the driver notified troopers, who recovered the gun, which was missing its magazine. Gill calls it a "completely bizarre way to recover a weapon."
The driver didn't know whether the gun came from an overpass or another vehicle.
Lakewood Police Lt. Chris Lawler says the department is investigating whether it was linked to a nearby fight where shots were fired.
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It took a tremendous amount of force for that gun to embed itself in that bumper
As a ex-paramedic I've seen a whole lot of weird stuff over the years. That's a new one.
Some, although it was a plastic bumper. He was going on the freeway so the speed could create a lot of force. I'm surprised that it didn't trigger the airbag. Maybe the company ought to build those things into the front of all their cars. Looks like a great way to discourage tailgating.
OOOOO!!!!
I want one!!!
Used to know a pot smuggler in my younger days who built a semi auto 12 gauge shotgun into his rear bumper to take out the radiator of anybody following too close. Don't know if he ever used it.
There are a couple of "triggers" behind the actual bumper bar which must be activated by the bumper bar compressing into them.
What we see in the picture is a bumper cover, not an actual bumper.
Plastic bumpers, yikes.
I still don't see how it would impale itself.
I'm guessing just luck, speed and force. Probably lifted off the pavement by another vehicle and then this guy just drove into it at speed.
I mean pebbles can crack windshields so why not guns embedding themselves in bumpers?
It's all about physics and dumb luck
Always suspected that Pebbles Flintstone had that capability.
I'm sorry I don't know that person, was he/she known for cracking windshields?
Entirely possible as well.
Her boyfriend Bam Bam certainly could!
He's lucky he wasn't in New York, they would have arested him for having an unlicensed pistol.......
If they check under the car there may be a body there, the body that was holding the pistola when the guy ran over him.