Via Diamond Leung’s Diamond Notes come reports that pitcher Vicente Padilla shot himself in the right leg. Updates indicate the wound occurred at a shooting range and fortunately was not serious.
Here’s a Google translation of one of the stories:
The pitcher Vicente Padilla of the Los Angeles Dodgers was entered today in a private hospital in Managua with a bullet wound in his right leg, his family said.
The player left hours later the medical center and is recovering from a wound is not serious, the sources added to the local press.
Padilla was injured when practiced at a shooting range, 22 miles southeast of Managua.
The spokesman for the National Police of Nicaragua, Vilma Reyes, told the press that the shot that Padilla was injured accidentally.
A hospital spokeswoman ... told reporters that the Nicaraguan pitcher in 32 years, this year also played with the Texas Rangers, was hospitalized for 40 minutes and already left the medical center, without gravity.
Update: Leung passes along another report that states that his bodyguard fired the wounding shot.
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Posted: November 04, 2009 at 04:26 AM |
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1. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: November 04, 2009 at 04:32 AM (#3376920)Why? Its "bodyguard" not "leg-guard".
Where do you keep your legs?
Ummm... Kevin Costner?
I got nuthin'.
Up, up, and away!
Whoever fired the bullet definitely was.
Well, we all know where that would take us once a few characters show up.
CC Sabathia has more than gravity, he's got satellites!
I see your Kevin Costner and raise you a Delonte West.
will always glove you
In all seriousness, Plax would have been much, much better off hiring some good muscle and letting them carry the guns. Even if one of them shoots you in the leg accidentally, they'll go to jail while you chill on the IR.
Do you say that because Padilla is a jerk and someone was probably trying to shoot him? Because I know a surprising number of people who have accidentally shot themselves or others. Growing up in the woods of New Hampshire, it happened with amazing regularity. And I can see how. It's like some people if you put a gun in their hands it's like they become lobotomized. They don't treat them with respect do some unbelievably dumb stuff.
I thought Padilla had no shot, so I've been wrong twice.
i knew going in one of these posts would have me laughing out loud. 29 is it.
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