POLICE CHIEF DIDN'T REPORT THAT HE'D SHOT FRIEND ON HUNTING TRIP

Portland, Oregon’s police chief has been placed on leave pending the outcome of an investigation into why authorities weren’t immediately notified that he had accidentally shot his friend during a hunting trip. Portland Police Chief Larry O’Dea was involved in the shooting in April, but no one told local authorities who were investigating the shooting until almost a month later. The initial story was that the gunshot had been self-inflicted. But later, that changed to the story that Chief O’Dea had been involved in the shooting. On Tuesday, the city announced that O’Dea was on administrative leave “pending the outcome of several open internal and external investigations.”
* Maybe the police chief just forgot? You know, with all the screaming and the blood and stuff.
* Maybe the victim just forgot? You know, with all the screaming and the blood and stuff.
* Maybe it was hard to tell who actually fired the gun? You know, with all the screaming and the blood and stuff.
* How’s this: The police chief and his friend had their minds switched by aliens. Finding himself trapped in his friend’s body, the police chief shot himself – himself in his friend’s body – hoping the shock would snap him back into his own body. It worked, and the wound looked self-inflicted, but since it was the police chief’s mind in the friend’s body who pulled the trigger, although the wound is self-inflicted, the police chief did it.
* In any case, I believe the Republicans have just found their next vice-presidential candidate.
* So … are they still friends?
* Maybe he can use the time off to re-sight his rifle.
* Actually, I think he’s going to have a lot more time off than that.
* I’d use the time off to get my resumé updated.
* You might want to lawyer up too.
* Oregon is no Florida with the wacky news, but when they do it, they really do it right.