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SEDALIA, MISSOURI 

You know those annoying pro-cable commercials that always talk about how awful or expensive it is to install a satellite dish, and how comparatively easy, cheap, and dependable cable is? Yeah, well, they don't have anything on this story out of Sedalia, Missouri, where a husband has admitted to shooting his wife during the install of a home satellite TV system.

Amazingly the husband, Ronald Long, was trying to use a .22-caliber pistol to shoot a hole through the wall in the couple's home to enable them to run a wire through to the television. His first shot was apparently unsuccessful in penetrating the wall and his second shot somehow hit his wife in the chest, 34-year-old Patsy Long. She was pronounced dead on Saturday night.

Ronald could now be charged with manslaughter, though prosecutors haven't confirmed whether that is their intention. It also remains to be seen whether the cable companies will start filming new ads about these new potential dangers of satellite dish installation, but we wouldn't put it past them.

Comments (5)

thesarge: ... Did this genius once have a SHORT LIVED career piercing ears? 1 March 27, 2008 Patrol506: ... I don't believe it! lol I just can't even grasp the fact that anyone would be that dumb. Ohh wait we deal with the same people just with different names on a daily basis. 2 March 28, 2008 igno rant: ... thesarge, ear piercing is nothing to to piercing screams he will provide in prison. 3 March 28, 2008 ramorgan: ... Maybe Missouri will grant the death penalty on account of the absolute stupidity of this moron just to cleanse the gene pool a little bit more. I seriously hope this dumb-ass did not procreate. 4 March 28, 2008 88pdx: ... He just should have used his Black and Decker instead of his Smith and Wesson! 5 March 28, 2008

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