As a new hire, I had a party chief with a joint alcohol and firearms problem. Just before I hired on in the engineering department, he had gone to the field with a crew and tied-up at a motel about 150 miles from home. That night, he had his customary half a brewery vat full of beer. While watching the start of "Gunsmoke" on TV, lying flat on his back on the bed, he played quick-draw with Marshall Dillon. He shot his .44 magnum though his toes, through the TV set and the bullet lodged in the wall behind the concrete block wall behind the TV.
(1) The railroad was banned from lodging at that motel for a very long time.
(2) Gimpy the gunslinger hobbled through the rest of the week.
(3) Any of us sent to the field with "gimpy" always made sure that there were at least two rooms between us and him while on the road as long as he worked on the railroad. Despite multiple complaints to the office engineer and division engineer, the d*mned guns continued to be with him the rest of his railroad career.
Mudchicken
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
