Someone should tell her that chicken’s dead long before they put it in the box.

From the Tallahassee Democrat:

Christie Murphey said she was upset when she shot herself in the thigh at a McDonald’s drive-through Wednesday, not because of the wound, but because she didn’t get her large chicken McNuggets meal.

“I didn’t even get my food,” she laughed, “I was starving.”

Murphey was checking a .45-caliber semi-automatic in her purse when it fired, striking her in the thigh. Tallahassee police arrived at the McDonald’s, 1944 North Monroe St., and found Murphey holding napkins against the wound.

She was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for treatment. She said she is home stitched up and on “some good medication.”

The gun belonged to her boyfriend who had a permit for it. It was impounded by TPD.

“We support legal gun ownership,” said TPD spokesman Officer David McCranie. But he said people who decide to get guns should have professional training on how to handle them.

“It could have been worse.”

“Should” have training?  How about “should be required” to have training?

Good thing her boyfriend’s a concealed carry permit-holder, otherwise an incompetent gun handler might have shot herself with it.

Oh, right.

At least Murphey lived to laugh about it.