ARMADILLO DEFLECTS BULLETS

A Marietta, Texas, man who found an armadillo in his yard early Thursday morning tried to shoot the animal, only to have the bullet ricochet back and hit him in the face. It was around 3 a.m. when the homeowner fired his .38 three times at the armadillo. The shell deflected the bullets and one hit him in the face. The man had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital where his jaw was wired shut. The status of the armadillo is unknown.
* Possibly shell-shocked.
* The armadillo was thinking: “In your face!”
* Jaw wired shut? Can we do that with, like, Miley Cyrus? Justin Bieber? Kathy Griffin? Anthony Scaramucci? (Or name the celebrity of your choice.)
* We have next summer’s superhero: Armadillo!